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Engineering a better food bank

People stand in a food bank storage area.

Researchers from North Carolina State University visit the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina to learn the intricacies of how food banks operate. The team went on to design a more efficient food distribution process.

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Researchers visit a food bank.

Charlie Hale (center) of the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina (FBCENC); Lauren Davis, Steven Jiang and Isaac Nuamah of North Carolina A&T State University; and Julie Ivy, Irem Sengul and Reha Uzsoy of North Carolina State University tour FBCENC, based in Raleigh.

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Researchers visit a food bank.

With support from three-year NSF collaborative research grants, Ivy and Davis assembled a team to collect food bank data, analyze it, and create computational models of supply and distribution processes.

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Researchers visit a food bank.

The research team demonstrated that food access for charitable agencies located in remote parts of the service area can be improved using satellite delivery locations. The researchers also identified transportation schedules that incorporate both collection and delivery of donated food and take into consideration the unique constraints faced by food banks: perishability, quality control, distribution equity, and capacity.

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