Abstract
This paper presents the procedure for logistics system scenario selection for the central business district (CBD) of the city in the phase of significant urban changes. Scenarios are defined in accordance with the overall logistics concept of the city. Conflicting goals of stakeholders (residents, shippers and receivers, logistics providers and city government) generate a vast number of criteria that need to be included when selecting the scenario for the city area logistics system. Due to limited resources and linguistic assessment of criteria, fuzzy extensions of conventional multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods were used. Fuzzy 'analytical hierarchy process' (FAHP) is applied to determine the relative weights of evaluation criteria, and fuzzy 'technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution' (FTOPSIS) is applied to rank the logistics systems scenarios. This paper contributes to the literature in the field of city logistics (CL), as it applies the integrated FAHP-FTOPSIS method for the evaluation of scenarios, which are also integrated combinations of different CL initiatives. The integrated combined approach proved to be accurate, effective and a systematic tool for the decision support in the process of selecting CBD logistics scenarios.
Highlights
With the growing demands for more efficient supply and environmental protection, the interest in city logistics, i.e. goods distribution, and logistics systems of urban areas is increasing
This paper presents the procedure for logistics system scenario selection for the central business district (CBD) of the city in the phase of significant urban changes
The Fuzzy “analytical hierarchy process” (FAHP) method is applied to determine the relative weights of the evaluation criteria, and FTOPSIS is used for gaining the final rank of the logistics system scenarios
Summary
With the growing demands for more efficient supply and environmental protection, the interest in city logistics, i.e. goods distribution, and logistics systems of urban areas is increasing. In order to obtain relevant information and overview of the city logistics systems state, major European and national research projects were implemented. They all suggest that the state of urban logistics is critical. This paper gives an overview of the planned urban changes of the part of the central area of Belgrade, which has access to the Danube River (Central Business Danube District, CBDD). Each logistics scenario has its own value in terms of various criteria of CBD efficient functioning Since this issue attracts the attention of all city structures and functions, the process of decision-making about the future logistics scenario is derived from various, mostly conflicting objectives and criteria, and with the application of the integrated FAHP-FTOPSIS method
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