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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.
Mustafa Hamurcu; Tamer Eren. Strategic Planning Based on Sustainability for Urban Transportation: An Application to Decision-Making. Sustainability 2020, 12, 3589 .
AMA StyleMustafa Hamurcu, Tamer Eren. Strategic Planning Based on Sustainability for Urban Transportation: An Application to Decision-Making. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (9):3589.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMustafa Hamurcu; Tamer Eren. 2020. "Strategic Planning Based on Sustainability for Urban Transportation: An Application to Decision-Making." Sustainability 12, no. 9: 3589.
Multicriteria decision-making tools are widely used in complex decision-making problems. There are also numerous points of decision-making in transportation. One of these decision-making points regards clean technology vehicle determination. Clean technology vehicles, such as electric buses, have some advantages compared to other technologies like internal combustion engine vehicles. Notably, electric vehicles emit zero tailpipe emissions, thereby ensuring cleaner air for cities and making these clean technologies preferable to other technologies, especially in highly populated areas for better air quality and more livable cities. In this study, we propose a multicriteria decision-making process using analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) in the context of an electric bus in the center of Ankara. Six potential electric bus alternatives were evaluated under seven specific criteria. Overall, EV-2 electric buses outperformed other electric bus alternatives based on the chosen criteria. In addition, the stability of the results obtained under different scenarios using this method was established via sensitivity analysis.
Mustafa Hamurcu; Tamer Eren. Electric Bus Selection with Multicriteria Decision Analysis for Green Transportation. Sustainability 2020, 12, 2777 .
AMA StyleMustafa Hamurcu, Tamer Eren. Electric Bus Selection with Multicriteria Decision Analysis for Green Transportation. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (7):2777.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMustafa Hamurcu; Tamer Eren. 2020. "Electric Bus Selection with Multicriteria Decision Analysis for Green Transportation." Sustainability 12, no. 7: 2777.