Using AHP- COPRAS-G method for forest roads locating

Author

Radfar, Iman ; Zolfani, Sarfaraz Hashcmkhani ; Rezaeiniya, N. ; Shadifar, Mchdi

Author_Institution

Islamic Azad Univ., Tehran, Iran

fYear

2011

fDate

8-10 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

547

Lastpage

550

Abstract

Forest roads have an important role in the forest management and economic of countries. The Caspian forest is the most important forests region in Iran. It´s so important to construction of forest roads in the best place that can be useful. Haraz region is located inMazandaran province that is near to Alborz Mountain. Selection the best place for construction of a road in forest is an important problem. For this research three place are considered for evaluating in Haraz region that including: Kelerd, Pelet Cheshme and Mangel. In this paper we applied hybrid MCDM methods for evaluating the regions. AHP applied for calculating the weight of each criterion and sub criterion and then COPRAS-G method applied for evaluating the places for selecting the best place for constructing the forest road. Result showed that Kelerd region in the best place for this work.

Keywords

decision making; forestry; roads; AHP-COPRAS-G method; Alborz mountain; Caspian forest construction; Haraz region; Kelerd region; Mazandaran province; Pelet Cheshme; country economic; forest management; forest road location; hybrid MCDM method; Optimized production technology; Roads; AHP; COPRAS-G method; Caspian Forest; Forests road;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emergency Management and Management Sciences (ICEMMS), 2011 2nd IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9665-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEMMS.2011.6015739

Filename

6015739