Evaluating Development Levels and Ranking of Hamadan Province's Counties via TOPSIS and KOPRAS Models

Subject Areas : Regional Planning

hasan esmaeilzadeh ¹ , rezvan safarkhani ² , yaghob esmaeilzadeh ³

1 - استادیار گروه جغرافیا و برنامه ریزی شهری، دانشگاه شهید بهشتی، تهران، ایران
2 - کارشناس ارشد جغرافیا و برنامه ریزی روستایی، دانشگاه شهید بهشتی، تهران، ایران
3 - کارشناس ارشد برنامه ریزی شهری، دانشگاه گیلان، رشت، ایران

Received: 2016-02-17 Accepted : 2017-04-20 Published : 2017-03-21

Keywords: development, Topsis model, Region, KOPRAS model, Hamadan,

Abstract :

One of the structural problems in management and planning system of Iran is the problem of service centralization at the center and its weakness and insufficiency in the around, which caused different problems such as rise of injustice and increase poverty in the country. The aim of current research is to examine the status of public services and find the best way to distribute them in the counties of Hamadan province. The required data of this descriptive-analytic research are collected via librarian-attributive method and examined 52 variables from statistical yearbook of 2013 in Hamadan province. Analyzing information is done by using KOPRAS and TOPSIS decision-making models; weighting with the method of Entropy, and Cluster analysis technique. The results indicate unbalance in the distribution of services among counties of Hamadan province. The planning system of this province is a function of center-around planning, in such a way that the majority of services are located at the center (Hamadan) and as the distance from the center increases, the level of services will be decreased. The findings show that Hamadan county with score 1 (by factor of 0.600), is in the developed level, Malayer county with score 2(by factor of 0.310), is in the half-developed level, and Nahavand (by factor of 0.266), Tuiserkan (by factor of 0.177), Kabutarahang (by factor of 0.205), Razan (by factor of 0.176), and Bahar (by factor of 0.305) counties with scores 3 to 7, are in the deprived from development level, and Asadabad (by factor of 0.138) and Famenin (by factor of 0.084) with score 8 and 9, are in the more deprived level.

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