Development and application of a multiple-attribute decision-analysis methodology for site selection of floating offshore wind farms on the UK Continental Shelf

A novel method for the risk assessment of human evacuation from cruise ships in maritime transportation

“…Considering the stakeholders of passenger ship emergency response, as well as the needs of scientific research, the domain experts are selected from the manager of passenger shipping companies, officer of maritime search and rescue coordination agencies, captain of passenger ships, navigational officers of cruise ship and researcher in the field of passenger ship safety, whose details are shown below. All experts have extensive working or research experience in the field, based on similar studies [52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60], it is believed that the number and authority of experts are suitable for this study.…”

“…At this point, linguistic variables are often used for quantization. In this study, five linguistic scales {H 1 , H 2 , H 3 , H 4 , H 5 } are used to evaluate these indexes [52][53][54]. The linguistic terms used for each parameter (L, C, P and R) are shown in Table 3, where R is the risk status of indexes, which are defined in Table 5 of the Chang et al's [52] research.…”

“…Based on the established hierarchy of influential factors, the method utilizes less quantitative information to mathematize the decision-making process, and providing an effective decision-making method for solving complex decision-making problems with multi-plan or multi-objective. As a result, due to its strong applicability, this method has been widely used in green port development assessment [58], strategic transport passages assessment [53], the site selection of offshore floating wind farm [54] and analysis of climate change response measures [59].…”

“…Finally, S(e ij ) is the evaluation of alternative schemes under the index-level index e ij , which can be expressed by Eq. ( 9) [54,67,70]. When the sum of belief degrees is 1, the evaluation of the criterion…”

A multi-criteria analysis framework for conflict resolution in the case of offshore wind farm sitting: A study of England and the Netherlands offshore space

“…In particular, an entire body of literature has been focusing on the analytical hierarchy process (AHP), which implies a structured technique that compares alternatives based on weighted criteria of site selection that usually conflict with each other (Gil-Garcıá et al, 2022). Hence, most studies have so far focused on exclusion factors which would lead to a number optimal locations for locating OWFs (Loughney et al, 2021;Caceoglu et al, 2022;Nagababu et al, 2022), or a range of options based on a suitability index (Mahdy and Bahaj, 2018). A related body of literature has been focusing on the analysis of potential pair-wise trade-offs between offshore uses and activities and the emerging offshore wind energy (White et al, 2012;Lester et al, 2013).…”