The facility location selection is one of the most important decisions
for investors and entrepreneurs. It is a strategic issue besides often decides
the fate of such a facility. In this kind of strategic decisions, decision
makers should take into account various objectives and criteria and the process
of location selection is inherently complicated. Hospital location selection
problem is an important issue in terms of location selection problem. Hospital
location selection plays a vital role in the hospital construction and
management. From aspect of the government, appropriate hospital location
selection will help optimize the allocation of medical resources, matching the
provision of health care with the social and economic demands, coordinating the
urban and rural health service development, and easing social contradictions.
From aspect of the citizen, proper hospital location selection will improve
access to the health care, reduce the time of rescue, satisfy people’s medical
needs as well as enhance the quality of life. From the aspect of the investors
and operators of the hospital, optimum hospital location selection will
definitely be cost saving on capital strategy. This paper considers the
hospital location selection for a new public hospital by using an additive
ratio assessment method with gray values (ARAS-G). Analysis of the locations by
ARAS-G method allows determining value of locations' in compared with the
optimal location. As a result, the closest location to the optimal location was
selected using this method.
Location selection multi criteria decision making additive ratio assessment method grey
Konular | Mühendislik |
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Bölüm | Makaleler |
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Yayımlanma Tarihi | 9 Kasım 2017 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2017Sayı: 1 |