An Application of Analytic Hierarchy Process in Vehicle Routing Problem

Balaji, M.; Santhanakrishnan, S.; Dinesh, S. N.

doi:10.3311/pptr.10701

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“…AHP is based on an additive weighting process, in which various relevant criteria are represented through their relative importance. The AHP approach was widely used by academics and professionals in many fields and problems, mainly in engineering fields like transport engineering field [39,[57][58][59][60] in the construction engineering field [61], in architecture [62,63], and many different engineering fields. However, AHP has some restrictions, and to overcome these limitations, many researchers integrate fuzzy theories with AHP for providing more reliable and robust results [47,64,65].…”

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An Integrated Approach of Analytic Hierarchy Process and Triangular Fuzzy Sets for Analyzing the Park-and-Ride Facility Location Problem

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A park and ride (P&R) system is a set of facilities where private vehicle users can transfer to public transport to complete their journey. The main advantage of the system is reducing the congestions problem in the central business district (CBD). Thus, the notion of symmetry is particularly important in multi-criteria decision aid (MCDA) because they are basic characteristics of the binary relationships used in modelling the preferences of decision-makers. The focal point of this study is evaluating the P&R facility system location problem from the experts’ point of view. For this aim, an integrated multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) methodology is proposed to evaluate the location of the facilities of the P&R system. The questionnaire survey was designed and estimated by 10 transport experts in the related field. The famous analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was adopted in a fuzzy environment, where the fuzzy sets have an efficient ability to manage the vague concepts in a specific way; moreover, it can mitigate the evaluator reasoning during decision-making. The hierarchical structure of the problem was established to evaluate a real-life problem in Cuenca city, Ecuador. The outcomes highlighted the “accessibility of public transport” as the most significant issue in the P&R facility location problem. The obtained results provide more flexible facilities than the pure AHP method.

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An Integrated Approach of Analytic Hierarchy Process and Triangular Fuzzy Sets for Analyzing the Park-and-Ride Facility Location Problem

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“…The AHP method is based on an additive weighting process, in which several relevant criteria are represented through their relative importance. The AHP approach was extensively applied by academics and professionals in many areas and problems, mainly in engineering fields like transport engineering [2,3,13,[39][40][41][42], in construction engineering and accuracy assessment [43,44], in architecture [45,46] and in many different engineering fields [18,[47][48][49][50].…”

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“…For an instance interval of x = a ij , b ij , x means that the criterion x i is between a ij and b ij times as preferable to the criterion x j . Therefore, the interval pairwise comparison matrix can be defined as (13):…”

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“…Decision making in a public bus transportation system is a complex issue related to economic, environmental, and socio-political matters [7], with many influential factors that characterise transport decisions [8,9]. Consequently, transportation experts have started using multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) applications for solving the problems and improving public transport projects [2,[10][11][12][13].…”

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Analysing Stakeholder Consensus for a Sustainable Transport Development Decision by the Fuzzy AHP and Interval AHP

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In any public service development decision, it is essential to reach the stakeholders’ agreement to gain a sustainable result, which is accepted by all involved groups. In case this criterion is violated, the impact of the development will be less than expected due to the resistance of one group or another. Concerning public urban transport decisions, the lack of consensus might cause lower utilisation of public vehicles, thus more severe environmental damage, traffic problems and negative economic impacts. This paper aims to introduce a decision support procedure (applying the current MCDM techniques; Fuzzy and Interval AHP) which is capable of analysing and creating consensus among different stakeholder participants in a transport development problem. The combined application of FAHP and IAHP ensures that the consensus creation is not only based on an automated computation process (just as in IAHP) but also on the consideration of specific group interests. Thus, the decision makers have the liberty to express their preferences in urban planning, along with the consideration of numerical results. The procedure has been tested in a real public transport improvement decision as a follow-up project, in an emerging city, Mersin, Turkey. Results show that by the application of the proposed techniques, decision-makers can be more aware of the conflicts of interests among the involved groups, and they can pay more attention to possible violations.

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“…The AHP method developed by Saaty is to facilitate the decision-making process; the overall objective is separated into sub-objectives and solved in decreasing the hierarchy order [13]. AHP was applied in a vehicle routing problem to select the supplier [14]. Zadeh proposed the fuzzy set theory to model the uncertainty of the real-world problem [15].…”

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Quality Assessment Method for Mobility as a Service

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2020

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The ongoing development of the concept ‘Mobility as a Service (MaaS)’ along with Shared Mobility contributes to the integration of transportation systems. Several MaaS or similar services are already in operation. The perceived quality of MaaS by the users varies significantly, and no general method is proposed to evaluate the service quality. This scantiness is identified as the research gap. The objective of the research is to elaborate a quantitative method to assess MaaS services. The research question is how to assess the quality of MaaS, and how to transform the qualitative description into quantitative numerical values, namely, the quality index and the level of quality. Since user expectations towards the importance of criteria are taken into consideration, the modified triangular fuzzy analytic hierarchy process method is introduced to calculate the weights of criteria. A quantitative method to calculate the quality index and to assign the quality level has been elaborated. Ten MaaS services are assessed with the method. It was found that the journey comfort is regarded with significant importance among the respondents. Furthermore, the quality index of MaaS services is not high; accordingly, the service quality requires continuous improvement. Our method facilitates decision-making when planning MaaS to identify the expected service attributes.

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An Application of Analytic Hierarchy Process in Vehicle Routing Problem

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Cited by 19 publications

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An Integrated Approach of Analytic Hierarchy Process and Triangular Fuzzy Sets for Analyzing the Park-and-Ride Facility Location Problem

An Integrated Approach of Analytic Hierarchy Process and Triangular Fuzzy Sets for Analyzing the Park-and-Ride Facility Location Problem

Analysing Stakeholder Consensus for a Sustainable Transport Development Decision by the Fuzzy AHP and Interval AHP

Quality Assessment Method for Mobility as a Service

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