Model for Selection of the Best Location Based on Fuzzy AHP and Hurwitz Methods

Slavko Arsovski,Zora Arsovski,Nikolina Ljepava,Zorica Lazić,Aleksandar Aleksic,Gordana Todorovic

doi:10.1155/2017/2803461

Abstract

The problem of evaluation and selection of parking lots is a part of significant issues of public transport management in cities. As population expands as well as urban areas, solving the mentioned issues affects employees, security and safety of citizens, and quality of life in long-time period. The aim of this paper is to propose a multicriteria decision model which includes both quantitative and qualitative criteria, which may be of either benefit or cost type, to evaluate locations. The criteria values and the importance of criteria are either precise or linguistic expressions defined by trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. The human judgments of the relative importance of evaluation criteria and uncertain criteria values are often vague and cannot be expressed by exact precise values. The ranking of locations with respect to all criteria and their weights is performed for various degrees of pessimistic-optimistic index. The proposed model is tested through an illustrative example with real life data, where it shows the practical implications in public communal enterprises.

Highlights

The aim of this paper is to propose a multicriteria decision model which includes both quantitative and qualitative criteria, which may be of either benefit or cost type, to evaluate locations
Rapid and constant increase of the number of city residents all over the world, in the developed as well as in the developing countries, and enhanced dynamics of living result in issues emerging in communal services, especially in the domain of stationary transport and parking [1]
Uncertainties in the relative importance of criteria, alternative values, at the same time are described by linguistic expressions which are modelled by type-1 fuzzy numbers such as triangular fuzzy numbers (TFNs) [9, 10], trapezoidal fuzzy numbers (TrFNs) [11,12,13], or the intuitionistic fuzzy sets

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Introduction

Rapid and constant increase of the number of city residents all over the world, in the developed as well as in the developing countries, and enhanced dynamics of living result in issues emerging in communal services, especially in the domain of stationary transport and parking [1]. According to the results of good practice, it is known that the zonal billing system is one of the parking strategies whose implementation is the best way to solve the mentioned issue This parking strategy may be improved by building above ground parking garages. Construction of these demands certain investment costs but at the same time, it impacts competitiveness and prosperity of the city in the long run. With respect to these facts, it can be said that the problem of assessment and ranking of possible sites for construction of above ground parking garages may be one of the major tasks of the local government. The solution of this problem may be propagated into economic and political way of local government’s functioning

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