Int. J. Emergency Management, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2018 1 Copyright © 2018 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Sector prioritisation in Rabat region for emergency management Meryam Benabdouallah* and Chakib Bojji Doctoral Center of Sciences and Engineer Technologies, Normal Superior School of Technical Education/ Ecole Normale Supérieure de l’Enseignement Technique (ENSET), Mohamed V University in Rabat, Rabat, 10100, Morocco Email: meryam_benabdouallah@um5.ac.ma Email: chakib.bojji@gmail.com *Corresponding author Othmane El Yaakoubi Ecole Supérieure des Sciences et Technologies de l’Ingénieur ESSTI, Rabat, 10090, Morocco Email: Othmane.elyaakoubi@essti.ac.ma Abstract: Setting priorities of sectors in an emergency intervention is an important unit to improve the healthcare management of a city. The goal of this paper is to prioritise sectors in Rabat region of Morocco when two or more emergency calls are received in call centres of hospitals using the analytical hierarchy process (AHP). This prioritisation is based on social, demographic and proximity criteria that lead to rank the 10 sectors of the region. The paper shows that the proposed AHP methodology is consistent and allows a real ranking of Rabat sectors. Keywords: emergency service; AHP; analytical hierarchy process; hospital logistics; prioritisation; sector. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Benabdouallah, M., Bojji, C. and El Yaakoubi, O. (2018) ‘Sector prioritisation in Rabat region for emergency management’, Int. J. Emergency Management, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp.1–22. Biographical notes: Meryam Benabdouallah is a PhD student at Sciences and Engineer Technologies. Her research interests focus on optimisation of pre-hospital logistics, exactly the management of the ambulance fleet and minimising its lateness intervention. She is affiliated to the Industrial Performance Team from the Doctoral Center of Sciences and Engineer Technologies of ENSET, Ecole Normale Supérieure de l’Enseignement Technique of Mohamed V University in Rabat, Morocco. Chakib Bojji is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Project Management in the Mohamed V University in Rabat. He holds a PhD from the Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal, Canada, in Mechanic Engineering. He is the author of many scientific articles in high performance composite materials and a Lecturer on Product Life Cycle Management and Innovation and he is the