Resilience of Urban Areas via Locating and Ranking of Fire Stations, A Case Study: District Ten of Tehran Municipality

Resilience is the degree of resilience of systems and tolerates change and the capacity to return to post-traumatic equilibrium. The speed of timely response is one of the dimensions of social, organizational, and institutional dimensions of resilience. The aim of this research is to increase the response speed during the crisis by locating and ranking fire stations in district ten of Tehran municipality. This district is the smallest district of Tehran municipality in terms of size and the highest district in terms of density. This research has used twelve criteria and eleven propose stations. Criteria have been selected from standards 6430, experts' view, and previous studies. The research method is descriptive-analytical and has used from Fuzzy TOPSIS method to prioritize the proposed location of the stations. Experts' views show that access (Width of the street), proximity, and traffic are the most important criteria. The results show that the first ranked station in the mentioned criteria has the highest value. The last ranked station has the lowest value in the term of the width of the street. It is located in the boundary of the study area and has the lowest values in the term of experts' point of views, so it has gained the last rank. Also, the ranking results show that fire station No. 85 (existing station) is in a suitable location, but fire station No. 8 (existing station) is not located in an optimal location. It affects the safety of the covered areas and reduces the response speed and reducing resilience.