One approach for road transport project selection

2013

Review of multicriteria-analysis methods application in decision making about transport infrastructure The complex issue of making decisions on transport infrastructure in urban areas is considered in the paper, and the use of multicriteria-analysis in this process is analysed. The analysis covers planning, design, maintenance and reconstruction of transport infrastructure. Authors present conclusions on the possibilities, advantages, and limitations of the application of multicriteria-analysis methods, with the purpose of improving quality of decision making regarding transport infrastructure in urban areas.

2003

The present communication is based on the research undertaken by the author and whose principal results are detailed in its thesis entitled « Choice of alternatives of road infrastructures : multicriteria methods » like on the prospects offered by this one. The problems of the choice between various alternatives are permanent and crucial in the projects of systems of transport and road infrastructures. The designer who works out a technical solution must have objective and global methods in order to propose to the decision makers, who are generally a political entity, an optimal alternative. The complexity of the many fields affected by the transport infrastructure as well as the diversity of the various intervening actors directly or indirectly in the study process are as much elements to integrate in this choice. Only methods of multicriteria decision analysis, associated with a dialogue integrated into all the stages of the study process, make it possible to the designer as well ...

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 2020

Planning, construction and operation of transport infrastructure are associated with a multitude of adverse effects on the environment. The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) are important legal instruments of the European Union's environmental policy that allows for identifying, predicting, preventing, and mitigating and or compensating for these adverse effects. As part of the environmental impact assessment, variants of planned activities and investment projects are considered in order to select the option, which is the most favourable from the environmental point of view. The primary goal of this work is to examine the possibility of using multi-criteria methods in order to select the route variant most favourable for the environment. In the first stage, a review of global literature from 2010 to 2019 was conducted on the subject of MCDM/MCDA (Multi-Criteria Decision Making/Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis) methods used in transportation. Based on the review, it was proven that the most popular methods used to solve multi-criteria decision problems in the field of transport are respectively: AHP with modifications, TOPSIS, DEMATEL, as well as methods encompassed in the so-called European trend, i.e. PROMETHEE and ELECTRE. Four selected methods were used in the empirical part of this work. They were used to select the variant of the expressway section in northeastern Poland and compare the result of the analysis with the choice made in the analyzed environmental impact report.

2012

The importance and public nature of road infrastructure requires involvement of many stakeholders in the process of decision making in the democratic societies. The usage of Multi-Criteria Analysis (mCA) is a pertinent tool in decision making when some of specific objectives are imperative to achieve. Besides, the road infrastructure is very important for the system of civil protection and defence for all countries. This work shows the methodology for definition of criteria and determination of weight for each criterion. The following six main criteria are assessed: traffic flow, impact of spatial plan, civil engineering criteria, economical and financial criteria, environmental criteria, criteria for defence and system of civil protection. More specific sub-criteria are defined in each group of main criteria. The questionnaire with a list of main and specific criteria is sent to several institutions and experts in the country to give their opinion thereon, or to estimate each main criterion (first step of weighting) as well as to assess each sub-criterion (second step of weighting). The results of the survey concerning measurement of the importance of each criterion are used to develop Multi-Criteria Analysis. The assessment of three variants of road infrastructure is calculated through three methods of MCA: Sum Weight Method (Swm), Analytic Hierarchy Process (AhP) and eleCTRe. The comparison and recommendation for usage of mCA and choice of the calculation method is also provided in this work.

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment, 2001

In this paper the Analytic Hierarchy Process is used in order to evaluate priorities for the planned transportation infrastructure projects in the Eastern Macedonia and Thrace region. This evaluation is in accordance with the region's development objectives as determined by the Regional Operation Plan and the 3rd Community Suppbrt Framework. Two different hierarchies, one for the benefits and one for the costs, are formed and the rank of a project is determined by its benefit-cost ratio. The proposed projects can be divided into three categories, depending on their benefit-cost ratio.

Croatian Operational Research Review, 2010

Urban road infrastructure management deals with complex decision making process. There are several reasons for a complexity such as: multi-disciplinarity, lots of participants, huge quantity of information, limited budget, conflict goals and criteria. These facts indicate that decision making processes in urban road infrastructure management belong to ill-defined problems. In order to cope with such complexity and to help managers during decision making processes this research proposes an application of multicriteria methods. Therefore, a generic concept of decision support for urban road infrastructure management based on multicriteria analysis is proposed. Three multicriteria methods: AHP, SAW and PROMETHHE, in a combination with 0-1 programming are used. The main advantage of an application of multicriteria analysis is that all stakeholders could be objectively included into decision process. Therefore, setting up of criteria weights involves opinions from all stakeholders’ group...

Tehnicki vjesnik - Technical Gazette, 2018

The problem of road route evaluation in the process of planning and designing is reduced to making a decision regarding route selection which is preceded by a detailed analysis of each potential alternative assessed by experts. The aim of this paper is to show that conclusions regarding the evaluation and selection of the adequate road transport route can be obtained by the application of the multi-criteria analysis. In order to fulfill our research aim, a model which includes criteria and sub-criteria for road route selection is set. The defined model can be applied in the decision-making process related to the road route evaluation and selection. Its value lies in the elaborated methodology of the multi-criteria optimization applied in the transport planning and designing. The defined model was applied in the evaluation and selection of the Jelšane-Postojna highway route by using the PROMETHEE II method for the multi-criteria ranking of alternatives.

This paper addresses a multi-criteria decision based methodology to develop a road network cost function for route finding analysis in a Geographic Information System (GIS). Over the years, several studies relating to route planning process in GIS and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have been conducted, most of which rely on the use of one-dimensional variables like distance or time as a cost function. This paper, in contrast, investigates multi-dimensional variables to define the cost function using a multicriteria decision making approach. To this end, first additional realistic variables which have quantitative as well as qualitative characteristics are taken into account. These include climate, sight-seeing information, road type, and so on. Second, they are combined using a Multi-Dimensional Cost Model (MDCM) using the Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP). The models developed were implemented and closely evaluated in northern parts of Iran. The resulting routs showed to be more accurate than those obtained utilizing one-dimensional cost functions.

Transport Policy, 2015

In this paper we give an overview of the use of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) for transport project appraisal. The aim of this review is to provide an outline of the increasing use of MCDA methods in the evaluation of transport projects. We investigate for which kind of transport decisions the MCDA methods are applied. The review consists of identifying the transport related subjects, the interconnected arising decision problems and the kind of representative MCDA method(s) used for transport project evaluations. This review allowed deriving a general frame for the evaluation of transport projects. One of the conclusions resulted in the importance of integrating stakeholders in the decision process not yet very common in the transport projects that were reviewed. The Multi-Actor Multi-Criteria Analysis (MAMCA) approach is suggested as a direction for further research. The MAMCA methodology has already proven its usefulness in several transport related decision problems enabling to involve the stakeholders explicitly in the decision process.

The planning phase within the urban-transport project management is a complex process from both the management and techno-economic aspects. The focus of this research is on decision-making processes related to the planning phase during management of urban road infrastructure projects. The proposed concept is based on multicriteria methods and Artificial Neural Networks. The decision-support concept presented in this paper is tested on the road infrastructure of the city of Split, and it shows how urban road infrastructure planning can be improved.