Selection of Best Location for Residential building in Nashik by application of TOPSIS

Location planning process as one of the most complicated spatial decisions is the initial and one of the critical steps in the development of a New Town and area. Location selection is a fundamental factor in success of new towns functionality, and also determines the success of the new town investment. Since location planning and selecting a well-fit option from the feasible alternatives is a significant problem in every decision making process, Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) has been found to be an efficient approach to solve this kind of problems. There are different MCDM models that have been applied for location selection projects in both regional scales. But simultaneous application of quantitative and quantitative criteria and weighting (importance coefficient) of indicators according to regional features and theoretical principles, make TOPSIS as an optimal model to assess the location selection of residential projects. This method emphasizes that selected alternative should have the least distance with positive idea solution (the best possible location) and the most distance with negative ideal solution (the worst possible location). In this project, using technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) intended to evaluate location selection of Nashik to show their overall situation to best alternative.