AN APPLICATION of CRITIC and ROV METHODS in CHOOSING LOCATION for DISASTER LOGISTICS

Emergency management is the managerial task of establishing the framework for reducing community exposure to risks and coping with disasters. Logistics management in emergencies and disasters is challenging since it seeks to meet demand as efficiently as achievable while keeping timing constraints in mind. In this research, we first identified the most common and important factors in emergency management and location selection. Based on these factors, we set the importance weights for each criterion by using CRITIC methodology and found the most convenient places for the logistics process by using ROV method. This study helped to quantify some qualitative criteria which can be used in emergency management and evaluate them in an analytical way. As a result of the study, while the distance to transportation variable was determined as the most important factor, the A1 Alternative was chosen as the most suitable logistics locations in Turkey.