Abstract
Nowadays, cities are developing differently according to their needs, limitations and certain strategic plans. Moreover, conurbation areas will be more common in so many countries like Chile when there are two or more cities developing one next to another, leaning on each other. In this atmosphere, typical residents live in a region or a neighborhood based on certain criteria, so they know how and where they are going to live. From another point of view, a newcomer is usually faced with a city full of contrasts which make things completely and surprisingly complicated. In order to illustrate this, a real case was selected based on the research field, qualitative and quantitative (real) data. The Coquimbo-La Serena conurbation and it’s regions as “Comuna (in Chile)” is a really suitable case to show the complexity of the study. In order to face the challenge, a new hybrid Multiple-Attribute Decision-Making (MADM) method is introduced based on the Best-Worst Method (BWM) and Multi-Attributive Ideal-Real Comparative Analysis (MAIRCA). The five best different neighborhoods as Comunas of the conurbation were analyzed based on the two main scenarios: having a private car or using only public transportation. To obtain more reliable results, a sensitivity analysis was made so as to determine the behavior of the proposed model against weight changes. Besides, the final results were compared with the other MADM methods, for example: Multi-Attributive Border Approximation Area Comparison (MABAC), VIsekriterijumsko KOmpromisno Rangiranje (VIKOR) and COmbinative Distance-based ASsessment (CODAS).
Highlights
Mobility is considered to be a natural part of the human lifecycle
If we examine the literature on Multi-Attributive Ideal-Real Comparative Analysis (MAIRCA), we can see that very few studies have been conducted (Gigović, Pamučar, Bajić, & Milićević, 2016; Pamučar, Mihajlović, Obradović, & Atanasković, 2017; Badi & Ballem, 2018; Chatterjee, Pamucar, & Zavadskas, 2018; Mamak Ekinci & Can, 2018)
The final ranking of the alternatives as locations according to the stated Multiple-Attribute Decision-Making (MADM) methods illustrates that: (1) for Scenario 1, the alternative A1 took the highest rank among to all the methods, except the VIsekriterijumsko KOmpromisno Rangiranje (VIKOR) method, in which it is the second-ranked (A5 is the first-ranked); (2) for Scenario 1, the alternative A5 is the best-ranked according to the MAIRCA method since the alternative
Summary
Mobility is considered to be a natural part of the human lifecycle. According to Li and Tu (2011), mobility is one of the main reasons for changes in the arrangement and character of a settlement. Mobility studies have emerged due to the dissatisfaction with the original location caused by the lifecycle changes. Preliminary studies on this subject matter were carried out by Rossi (1955) and Brown and Moore (1970). Mobility is divided into inter-urban mobility and intra-urban mobility. Inter-urban mobility is a long-distance movement usually done for job-related reasons, whereas intra-urban mobility is a short-distance movement associated with non-job-related causes. Intra-urban movers are more likely to consider non-economic factors (Li & Tu, 2011)
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