Selection of The Hand-Held Radio Transceivers Which is Used for Emergency Communications with Multi Criteria Decision Making Methods

Turkey is a country where possibility of experiencing natural disasters is high in terms of geological structure, topographic location and climate characteristics. Before a possible natural and manmade disaster or search and rescue activity, communication systems have great importance in order to be taken necessary precautions and can be carried out post-disaster help activities. In this sense it’s clear that necessity of building a proper communication infrastructure in order to be provided communication which is established between relevant units. In the event of a disaster existing most systems be disabled and Wireless Communication is one of the most ideal solutions to be used for continuation of communication. Therefore it gain importance that selection of the radio transceiver which is major component of wireless communication and its productive use in emergency communication. In this study, hand-held radio transceivers which are planned to be bought within the scope of communications infrastructure established in Provincial Disaster and Emergency Directorate, selection problem is tackled. Multi-criteria decision making models such as AHP, ANP, TOPSIS and ELECTRE are used for hand-held radio transceivers selection problem and obtained results are compared with each other.