Location of rescue centers using the combined model of AHP and GIS

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Iran University science and technology

10.22034/tri.2022.338832.3038

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From a long time ago, natural disasters have been recognized as the most destructive and damaging factor of human societies. Although, many damages, especially loss of lives are not compensable, but preventive actions and proper planning in order to confronting with these disasters can minimized the losses and damages. To do so, it is essential to construct proper places to accommodate affected people in critical situations and also to store emergency goods and items. Relief and rescue centers have important duties, including storage of emergency goods and temporary accommodation for people affected by the disaster. In this paper, Geographic Information System data has been used to solve the location problem of relief and rescue centers by collecting related information layers for each criterion for this purpose. The importance of each criterion is determined by applying AHP method. Based on the results; accessibility to transportation networks with the weight of 0.23 indicates the importance of this criterion for determining the location of the rescue and relief centers. Furthermore, 12 points have been identified as proposed for rescue sites for Tehran eastern regions, these sites are located in regions 4, 7, 8, 11, 12, 15 and 20 of Tehran respectively.

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Journal of Transportation Research

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Available Online from 03 December 2022

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