A multi criteria comprehensive evaluation approach for emergency response capacity with interval 2-tuple linguistic information.

•This study proposes a multi criteria comprehensive evaluation approach for ERCE.•Diversity and uncertainty of DMs’ assessments are modeled by interval 2-tuples.•The developed ITL-AHP is utilized to determine criteria weights.•Evaluation results are yielded by interval weighted aggregation operators.•The new method is more effective to evaluate emergency response capability.