Abstract
Public transportation is one of the main goals of a developing city. This topic includes not only administrators, but also city residents and the environment, with economic, environmental, and social factors. This paper presents a multicriteria decision-making process for prioritizing alternative public transportation projects in Kırıkkale, considering the urban type of a developing city. It outlines three planned projects for improvement: “electric municipality bus”, “light rail system”, and the “modernization of existing vehicles and network optimization”. In this study, we use the analytic hierarchy process and fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal situation (TOPSIS) application to prioritize transportation projects using economic, social, transportation, and environmental sub-criteria. The aim of this study is to select the most suitable project, based on sustainability, for more urban livability in Kırıkkale city. In the strategic decision-making process, the weights of each sustainability criteria have been determined using analytic hierarchy process (AHP). The fuzzy TOPSIS method has been applied for ranking the proposed alternative projects for Kırıkkale. Finally, the analytic decision process results are compared, and the electric municipality bus is selected as the best project alternative. The results of this study can not only offer a solution for current needs related to urban planning, but also ensure as a more transparent decision-making process for developing sustainability in developing cities in the near future.
Highlights
Problems like traffic congestion, air and noise pollution, and increasing fuel consumption due to the use of private cars are among the major troubles for the quality of life in urban areas
The proposed Multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) (AHP-based fuzzy TOPSIS) model for the strategy selection problem for urban transportation consisted of three basic stages: firstly, the determination of the criteria and alternatives to be used in the decision-making process; secondly, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) computations for the weights of criteria and the evaluation of alternatives with TOPSIS; and, the determination of the best option
After the fuzzy evaluation matrix was determined, the second step was to obtain a fuzzy weighted decision table. In this step, using the criteria weights calculated by AHP the weighted evaluation matrix was established with AHP
Summary
Air and noise pollution, and increasing fuel consumption due to the use of private cars are among the major troubles for the quality of life in urban areas. These situations have been caused by many large impacts on the economy, natural ecosystem, and human health. The determination of public transportation systems is a strategic decision-making problem for urban areas and city managers [4,5]. The building of attractive public transport infrastructures and systems, bus network optimization, or the use of clean technological buses in developing cities will decrease the use of private vehicles and build a modern city
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