Site Selection of Isolation Hospital for Coronavirus Patients in Nile Delta, Egypt, Using GIS Technology

Table 6

Arrangement of the applied criteria for a pairwise comparison matrix for isolation hospital site selection.

Criteria	Population density	Urban shops (buffer: 20 km)	Road network	Infrastructure	Industrial zones	Current hospital sites	Railways	Landfillsites
Population density	1	2	2	3	4	3	4	5
Urban shops (buffer: 20 km)	0.5	1	1	1.5	2	1.5	2	2.5
Road network	0.5	1	1	1.5	2	1.5	2	2.5
Infrastructure	0.33	0.66	1.5	1	1.33	1	1.33	2.5
Industrial zones	0.25	0.5	0.5	0.5	1	1.33	1	1.25
Current hospital sites	0.33	0.66	0.66	1	1.33	1	1.33	1.66
Railways	0.25	0.5	0.5	0.75	1	0.75	1	1.25
Landfill sites	0.2	0.4	0.4	0.6	0.8	0.6	0.8	1
Total	3.36	6.72	7.56	9.85	13.46	10.68	13.46	17.66