Reducing the response time to the homeless with the use of Humanitarian Logistics Bases (BLHs) composed of shipping containers adapted as temporary shelters.

Objective: Propose the use of adapted shipping containers as temporary shelters for prompt response to homeless victims of natural disasters in Brazil. Methodology/Approach: In this study we call this alternative as Humanitarian Logistics Bases (BLHs). To carry out this proposition, a data collection was carried out with the public bases from 2013 to 2018 on the occurrence of natural disasters in the country. The impacts and consequences of these disasters were analyzed and quantified the total number of homeless victims in the period. To locate the BLHs, the p-Median method was applied in conjunction with Simple Multi-Attribute Rating Technique (SMART) to measure the weight of each decision criterion in the localization process. The number of BLHs was defined by the clustering method, considering the distribution of homeless people by State. Relevance: Considering the aspects related to the end of life of containers, which has generated a new market for container houses, it was that this research identified a gap in terms of adapting these containers for temporary shelters. Thus, a study that considers the impacts of climatic events on Brazilian states is justified, as well as the ability to use alternative instruments to increase the state's prompt response to meet the needy. Results: In the end, the results showed that the development of a methodological process for locating the BLHs, composed of shipping containers, is a possible strategy to improve the response to victims displaced by natural disasters. A greater incidence of disasters was observed in the country's coastal zone, as well as in the South, Southeast and North regions, and thus there was a need for 52 BLHs and a total of 90,775 container houses in a support network to serve the main affected regions. by natural disasters. Contributions: This research sought to fill a gap on a procedure for locating temporary shelters of reused shipping containers for humanitarian logistics, in order to contribute so that public agencies can offer a quick combat to the homeless during the post-disaster phase. Conclusión: The use of shipping containers is a sustainable alternative to reduce the response time to the homeless. This approach can allow entities linked to the maritime sector to enter into partnerships with the public sector in order to meet a repressed demand in the country due to the recurrence of problems of climatic events, besides contributing to reduce the problem of final destination, providing favorable conditions to container recycling. And they could also offer relief from other extraordinary events, which lacked temporary mobile structures, such as war and pandemic actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]