Integrated Machine Learning Algorithms and MCDM Techniques in Optimal Ranking of Battery Electric Vehicles

Abstract

The automobile industries across the world of this present age are streamlining the manufacture of battery electric vehicles (BEV) as a step towards creating pollution free environment. BEVs are used as an alternate strategy to alleviate the carbon emission at global level. As environmental conservation is one of the long standing sustainable 1f ?developmental goals it is the need of the hour to make a paradigm shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, at the same time this also gives rise to a decision-making problem on making optimal choice of the electric vehicles. In this paper a decision making problem based on ten alternative BEVs and eleven criteria is considered from the earlier works of Faith Ecer. The new ranking method of multi-criteria decision making MCRAT(Multiple Criteria Ranking by Alternative Trace) is used together with three different criterion weight computing methods of AHP(Analytical Hierarchy Process) ,CRITIC (CRiteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation) & MEREC (MEthod based on the Removal Effects of Criteria). The results obtained are compared and validated using random forest machine learning algorithm. This research work conjoins multi-criteria decision making methods and machine learning algorithms to make optimal decisions on Battery electric vehicles and this integrated approach yields optimal ranking results and it will certainly create new rooms in decision-making approaches in coming days.