With the global economic development and the instability of the political structure, in recent years, the occurrence of major disasters around the world has shown an intensified trend. This paper reviews on the model and algorithm of relief distribution in emergency logistics. Systematically analyzing the present academic research on relief distribution, this paper classified researchers into four categories: Vehicle Routing Problems; Inventory Routing Problems; Location Problems; location

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... ng Problems. Finally, we draw a conclusion of emergency logistics and propose a new study direction of relief distribution in the future research.