Locating Safe Places for Temporary Accommodation During an Earthquake by Using GIS and BWM Technique (Case Study of Tabriz City)

Fazayeli, Saeed; Abbasi Ghasemloee, Ronak; Alipour, Mehdi

doi:10.22075/jme.2025.34079.2664

Locating Safe Places for Temporary Accommodation During an Earthquake by Using GIS and BWM Technique (Case Study of Tabriz City)

Document Type : Industry Article

Authors

Saeed Fazayeli ¹

Ronak Abbasi Ghasemloee ¹

Mehdi Alipour ²

¹ Department of Industrial Engineering, Technical and Engineering Faculty, Urmia University. Iran

² Department of Industrial Engineering, Siraj Institute of Higher Education Tabriz, Iran

10.22075/jme.2025.34079.2664

Abstract

Skill during an earthquake and moving the injured to safe places is one of the treatment ways to prevent the earthquake disaster and save people's lives. Geographic information system (GIS) has a high power in earthquake risk zoning, so that the location of faults and distances and places prone to fire and explosion are already known. In these researches, by using geographic information system techniques in the ARCGIS10.8 software environment, analysis is done and finally, safe places extracted. In order to weight the layers, the linear programming model of the best-worst technique (BWM) is used, the data of which is created through the creation of a questionnaire that is scored by experts, and finally, the overlapping operation of the layers. Through the application of fuzzy functions, it is written to prepare the final map and select the safest places during an earthquake for the city of Tabriz. The innovation used in this research is the simultaneous use of GIS and BWM technique for the first time in the field of locating safe places to create earthquake shelters in Tabriz city. The main goal of this research is to help crisis management in urban planning and provide management suggestions for Tabriz.

Keywords

Location

Earthquake

Safe places

Geographic information system

Best-Worst Techniqu

Subjects

Industrial Engineering

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