Proposed Sustainability Composite Index of Highway Infrastructure Projects and Its Practical Implications

El-Kholy, A. M.; Akal, Ahmed Yousry

doi:10.1007/s13369-019-04201-1

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“…Public satisfaction is also a manifestation of the level of service function, which could be obtained from the performance evaluation report or through questionnaire surveys. Reflected by the importance of the area in which it is located, the traffic zoning in which it is located, and the functional zoning Weighted calculation of the importance of nodes at both ends of the road (2) The need for resilience enhancement At the meso level, the impact of changes in the natural environment in which it is located on road facilities was one of the most important factors [12]. Based on the definition and classification of resilience by Ostadtaghizadeh (2015) [47], we recognize that natural resilience (H5) refers to the ability of expressways to resist natural disasters.…”

Section: Fuzzy Delphi Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ibrahim et al [19] included factors such as management systems, leadership, and whether traffic development planning is considered in an integrated manner in road management, proposing new requirements from the dimension of facility management. Although the abovementioned studies improved the road assessment system from different dimensions, they still did not meet the renewal needs and most were limited to qualitative evaluation [2,12,20], with the indicators lacking specific quantitative methods.…”

Section: Literature Review 21 Evaluation Dimensions Of Indicator Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In terms of evaluation objectives, some studies established a green highway improvement and expansion road evaluation system based on the Greenroads index system for highways, highlighting the goal of environmental protection and considering evaluation criteria such as ecological protection, pollution prevention, resource conservation, energy saving, and emission reduction [11,14,21,22]. El et al [2] argued that previous studies did not adequately integrate the concept of sustainability into the management of road infrastructure projects and proposed the comprehensive highway sustainability index (CHSI) for assessing the three main categories of sustainable development economics, social criteria, and environmental criteria to improve the level of sustainability in road construction. Similarly, Ibrahim et al [19] developed a sustainability index for Egyptian highway construction projects that reflects the number of sustainable options implemented during the construction process of highways and even in the maintenance process.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Urban road regeneration, also known as urban road reconstruction and road expansion, is a part of infrastructure renewal under the concept of urban regeneration [1]. Urban expressways play a vital role in connecting and driving the development of cities as transport hubs and backbones, and their regeneration has received increasing attention [2]. Major cities around the world have high-density urban expressway networks [3].…”

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Evaluating the Renewal Degree for Expressway Regeneration Projects Based on a Model Integrating the Fuzzy Delphi Method, the Fuzzy AHP Method, and the TOPSIS Method

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As the volume and scale of urban expressways continue to increase, renewal remains a concern for urban development. The renewal and decision-making of an urban expressway need to be endowed with new concepts to adapt to the rapid development of cities. Nevertheless, in addition to considering road factors such as facility conditions, driving conditions, and environmental protection, the existing evaluation system lacks comprehensive consideration of factors that improve resilience and adapt to future urban development, and it lacks a quantifiable general update evaluation system. Thus, the establishment of a comprehensive renewal indicator system and a mixed evaluation framework is a challenge. This study proposes an evaluation framework of expressway renewal indicators that integrates the three dimensions of macro, meso, and micro based on the fuzzy Delphi method, the fuzzy AHP method, and the TOPSIS method. A q-rung orthopair fuzzy linguistic set was used to handle expert uncertainty information in the process of conducting fuzzy evaluations. The indicators were refined into general and quantifiable evaluation indicators to improve their versatility. Moreover, the renewal value of expressways was measured and calculated using the TOPSIS method, and four renewal intervals were divided according to the calculation results. As a result, 28 renewal indicators were screened out, and the five factors with the greatest impact on renewal were the demand for transport development, the renewal of facility and service functions, the upgrading of institutional resilience, structural renewal, and economic development. The model was applied to eight expressways in Shanghai to calculate the renewal degree value and divide the renewal status. The model could identify the renewal needs of each road to guide the renewal decision. This study proposes an evaluation model to measure urban expressway renewal studies and provides a reference for urban renewal in the area of sustainable development

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Section: Fuzzy Delphi Methodsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…Flooding risk Size and risk of potential floodplains area [19][20][21][22][23] Energy consumption Consumption of energy resources such as electricity, gas, and oil [15,[24][25][26][27][28][29][30]…”

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Sustainability Assessment of Municipal Infrastructure Projects Based on Continuous Interval Argumentation Ordered Weighted Average (C-OWA) and Cloud Models

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The goals of sustainable development are constantly negatively impacted by infrastructure initiatives. The importance of these projects in advancing the economic, social, and civilizational growth of the country will, however, prevent their construction from being stopped. The overall construction of the project is related to the scientific and unbiased assessment of an infrastructure project’s sustainability throughout the decision-making stage. Based on the references documents, this paper establishes an index system for evaluating an infrastructure project’s sustainability from three aspects: environment, economy, and society. In the assessment process, the cloud model was used to describe the various attribute values of infrastructure project sustainability, which achieved the uncertainty measures for infrastructure project sustainability, and a cloud model-based assessment method for infrastructure project sustainability was proposed by modifying the attribute value by the penalty factor. Finally, an assessment method for infrastructure project sustainability based on the cloud model was proposed after the attribute values were modified by using a continuous interval argument ordered weighted average (C-OWA) operator. The model carries out an overall sustainability assessment by generating a synthesized cloud with the weight to calculate the similarity of assessment factors, which takes the randomness, fuzziness, and uncertainty of expert qualitative assessment into account, and uses the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method and the C-OWA operator to determine the weight of the sustainable index and the aggregation of the expert scoring interval. A case study was conducted to clarify how this strategy was applied. The study provides a valuable and useful tool for the operational stage to assess the achievability of municipal infrastructure projects.

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AHP-Based Spatial Composite Impact Assessment Model (SCIAM) of Highway Broadening in Sikkim Himalaya

Banerjee¹,

Ghose

Pradhan

2021

Advances in Geographic Information Science

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Proposed Sustainability Composite Index of Highway Infrastructure Projects and Its Practical Implications

Cited by 9 publications

References 42 publications

Evaluating the Renewal Degree for Expressway Regeneration Projects Based on a Model Integrating the Fuzzy Delphi Method, the Fuzzy AHP Method, and the TOPSIS Method

Evaluating the Renewal Degree for Expressway Regeneration Projects Based on a Model Integrating the Fuzzy Delphi Method, the Fuzzy AHP Method, and the TOPSIS Method

Sustainability Assessment of Municipal Infrastructure Projects Based on Continuous Interval Argumentation Ordered Weighted Average (C-OWA) and Cloud Models

AHP-Based Spatial Composite Impact Assessment Model (SCIAM) of Highway Broadening in Sikkim Himalaya

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