Determination and Priority of Criteria of Pars New City Location Selection with Using of Spatial Multi Criteria Evaluation and Applying AHP Method

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South Pars oil operation activities in the south of Boshehr province require settling new population in line with balancing relations among human, space and activity in this area it is necessary to organize and arrange population and shaping new residences for new population and these are unavoidable. Under study area includes 5 counties, 11 villages and 5 cities this area reaches to Dashtestan city by north and kangan city by east and Persian Gulf by west and south. Its area is 753457 hectares. Location selection of pars new city was conducted by assessing existing conditions and defining limiters criteria of development and presenting proper option for development and using analytic hierarchy processes in this order to describe relations among goals, criteria and sub criteria and location options a hierarchical structure was provided then importance coefficient of criteria and sub criteria and weight of options and final scores of options and estimation and logical compatibility judgments were studied these stages were conducted by Expert choice software. Obtained results showed that: the must effective criteria in location finding new city of pars are infrastructures which include several sub criteria such as power, optic fiber, water and connection paths and energy resources and in this regard due to conditions of this area superficial waters are the most important factor.

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