MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION-MAKING TECHNIQUES IN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE STATE OF THE ART LITERATURE

Abbas Mardani,Ahmad Jusoh,Khalil Md Nor,Zainab Khalifah,Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas

doi:10.3846/16484142.2015.1121517

Abstract

The main goal of this review paper is to provide a systematic review of Multiple Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) techniques in regard to transportation systems problems. This study reviewed a total of 89 papers, published from 1993 to 2015, from 39 high-ranking journals; most of which were related to transportation science and were extracted from the Web of Science and Scopus databases. Papers were classified into 10 main application areas and nine transport infrastructure. Furthermore, papers were categorized based on the author(s) and year, name of the journal in which they were published, technique and approach, author(s) nationality, application area and scope, study purpose, gap and research problem and results and outcome. The results of this study indicated that more papers on MCDM in 2013 than in any other year. AHP and Fuzzy-AHP methods in the individual methods and hybrid MCDM and fuzzy MCDM in the integrated methods were ranked as the first and second methods in use, respectively. The Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice was the most significant journal in this study, with 13 publications on the topic. Finally, service quality was ranked as the first application area and airline industry was ranked as the first transport infrastructure that applied MCDM techniques.

Highlights

The development and management of transportation system is critical in economic and social development in any country
Chang et al (2015) integrated Analytic Network Process (ANP) and fuzzy TOPSIS to evaluate of performance in for airport safety management system, results of this study showed that safety assurance, safety policy and objectives, safety promotion and safety risk management are importance criteria in evaluation of airport safety
The outcomes of this paper found that, the larger state-controlled airlines make better in corporate social responsibility performance and private airline has had better improvement regarding corporate social responsibility performance

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Introduction

The development and management of transportation system is critical in economic and social development in any country. MCDM become one of the important decision-making techniques that has been used by many authorities, academicians and researchers in evaluation of the transportation systems (Pérez et al 2015) as in Celik et al (2013). Pérez et al (2015), claim that 58 different MCDM techniques are applied in urban passenger transport systems between 1982 and 2014. Pérez et al (2015), conclude that MCDM techniques become one of the very helpful techniques for the evaluation and decision-making projects in transportation systems in last decades. Using MCDM approaches and techniques, Decision Makers (DMs) must properly account for all significant criteria, which helps to decrease post-decision regret (Belton, Stewart 2002). The core of decision-making process related to transportation systems is the constructive discourse among the analysts, citizens, and decision makers.

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