To make sophisticated
decisions considering multiple conflicting criteria, such as choosing
the location of a new facility is common for environmental managers. The
environment and health of city inhabitants are greatly damaged if the
selection of a site is wrong. In a metropolitan city, site selection for
a trauma center is a quite tough decision taken by policymakers.
Considering the minimal time, pollution and cost, this paper aims to
overcome the challenges of selecting a site for a trauma center. A
Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis process is developed which combines
Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) with a utility-based method generic
feature extraction approach (GFEA) to determine the optimum site for a
new trauma center. In this study, 10 attributes among 5 different
locations of Metropolitan city are considered as alternatives. AHP
generates relative importance of the alternatives. The utility score is
proposed using the GFEA method and the arithmetic points drawn by the
alternatives make the final decision. Finally, a numerical study is
presented to validate the possible alternative of the proposed
methodology.