ABSTRACT
Disasters are often unpredictable in terms of time and location, and cannot be prevented. Therefore, effective disaster-management planning should be done to minimize the damage caused by a disaster. In this context, temporary evacuation of victims to assembly points is necessary after a disaster. The basic needs, such as food, clean water, and medicine, of disaster victims, who will stay at these assembly points for a short time, must be met very quickly. For this reason, the most appropriate location of depots where emergency needs will be provided is one of the most essential tasks of disaster management. In this study, the problem of location selection for an emergency supply depot, to ensure the delivery of emergency aid materials to assembly points in the shortest time possible after a disaster, is discussed. A two-stage integrated model is proposed for the discussed problem. In the first stage, the criteria that play a role in determining facility location were weighted with interval valued neutrosophic AHP. In the second stage, alternatives were evaluated with the interval valued neutrosophic WASPAS. The proposed model was applied to location selection of an emergency depot for Istanbul.
