Evaluate the development of the city of Kermanshah from the perspective of allocating utilities indices

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Saied Amanpur ¹ , Hadi Alizadeh ² , Safeyeh Damanbagh ³

1 - Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Geography and urban Planning, Shahid Chamran
2 - , M.A., Geography and urban Planning, Shahid Chamran University, Ahwaz, Iran
3 - , Geography and urban Planning, Shahid Chamran University, Ahwaz, Iran

Received: 2012-08-07 Accepted : 2013-04-30 Published : 2014-03-11

Keywords: development, Kermanshah province, TOPSISmodel, utility index,

Abstract :

The research adopts " descriptive- analysis" methodology to assess the development of the14 city of Kermanshah in terms of enjoyment indicators of urban services. In this regard eight of the civil services,  namely: fire stations, public libraries, the number of public parks, many public hospitals, the number of fueling stations, the number of universities, the number of passenger terminals and the number of agencies, have been  studied and related data were collected in Kermanshah province. The data was collected  in 2012 and has been assessed to determine status of the aforementioned indicators. For data analysis purposes, factor models featuring a class settlement, Shannon entropy index, TOPSIS model, and the coefficient of variation were used.  Research findings show the city of Kermanshah as a capital city of the province has a big difference with other cities in the province in terms of allocated utilities.