Abstract
A park and ride (P&R) system is a set of facilities where private vehicle users can transfer to public transport to complete their journey. The main advantage of the system is reducing the congestions problem in the central business district (CBD). Thus, the notion of symmetry is particularly important in multi-criteria decision aid (MCDA) because they are basic characteristics of the binary relationships used in modelling the preferences of decision-makers. The focal point of this study is evaluating the P&R facility system location problem from the experts’ point of view. For this aim, an integrated multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) methodology is proposed to evaluate the location of the facilities of the P&R system. The questionnaire survey was designed and estimated by 10 transport experts in the related field. The famous analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was adopted in a fuzzy environment, where the fuzzy sets have an efficient ability to manage the vague concepts in a specific way; moreover, it can mitigate the evaluator reasoning during decision-making. The hierarchical structure of the problem was established to evaluate a real-life problem in Cuenca city, Ecuador. The outcomes highlighted the “accessibility of public transport” as the most significant issue in the P&R facility location problem. The obtained results provide more flexible facilities than the pure AHP method.
Highlights
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Summary
The sustainable urban mobility plan (SUMP) is widely used as a tool by transport authorities and planners for the sustainable development of the urban area. The SUMP is used as a manual to promote the transfer to more sustainable transport modes and provide safe, clean, and environmentally friendly solutions [1]. A policy proposed in the SUMPs method is the use of the Park and Ride (P&R) system to solve the negative consequences of private vehicles in cities. Using this system, private vehicle users can travel to a central business district (CBD), and have a portion of the trip made in a private vehicle, before parking the vehicle to transfer to public transportation to complete their journeys [2,3,4]. Its location requires a detailed study to be carried out in order to be beneficial to the success of the system [7]
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