The Optimal Ranking of Candidate Hospital Sites Using a Combination of Objective Weighting Method and Multi-Criteria Decision Making Based on Geographical Information System

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1 MSc. Student, School of Surveying and Geospatial Information, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

2 Associate Professor, School of Surveying and Geospatial Information, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

3 School of Civil Engineering, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran.

Abstract

Hospitals are among the most important service centers, and the selection of the optimal site for them is a very important (yet complex) undertaking, as it can bring about optimal spatial distribution of hospitals and can make them optimally accessible for citizens. In the present study, in order to optimally locate hospitals in District 5 of Tehran metropolis, a combination of the geographical information system, objective weighting methods, and multi-criteria decision making method was used. The geographical information system was used to analyze and manage the optimal hospital locating criteria, the CRITIC weighting method was implemented to account for the correlation between the criteria, and Shannon's entropy method was used to model the existing uncertainty in the criteria. CODAS multi-criteria decision making method was used due to its novelty and the evaluation of alternatives based on two criteria. Based on the results obtained from CRITIC weighting method, distance from health centers, and based on the results of Shannon's entropy method, distance from industrial areas were the most important optimal hospital locating criteria. The results of ranking the candidate sites using CRITIC-CODAS and Shannon’s entropy-CODAS were almost the same, and both methods identified the sites on the western side of the District (that did not have any hospital) as the appropriate sites. The results of the study indicated the high accuracy of combined objective weighting and multi-criteria decision making methods in optimal locating of the hospitals. It might be asserted that these methods can replace thematic weighting methods such as analytical hierarchy process.

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Town and Country Planning
Volume 14, Issue 1
Spring & Summer
April 2022
Pages 347-369

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  • Receive Date: 14 July 2021
  • Revise Date: 16 October 2021
  • Accept Date: 16 October 2021

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