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Mr. Ahmad Alkharabsheh

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0 Transport Economics
0 ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS
0 Multi Criteria Decision Making
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Journal article
Published: 29 June 2021 in Vehicles
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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected public transportation worldwide, and its implications need to be evaluated and study deeply on all public transportation aspects. Therefore, an analysis has been created to examine the effects of the pandemic on public transportation service quality decisions to have a better vision of the different stakeholders’ needs to keep the system functioning in a profitable way. Stakeholder participation in complex, multi-criteria decision-making often produces very different results in prioritizing the decision attributes. Rank correlation techniques generally measure the degree of agreement or non-agreement among the evaluator groups. However, the multi-criteria methodology can determine not only ordinal but also cardinal priorities. Consequently, except for the attributes’ positions, the weight values are also significant in the final decision. This paper aims to apply a more sophisticated measure of group agreement than rank correlation. First, the Fuzzy-hierarchical analytical process (FAHP) has been used to find out the aggregated weights, then the Kendall correlation values are computed to reveal stakeholder opinions. Finally, the agreement measure approach has been tested in a real-world case study: the public transport development decision of Amman, Jordan. The analysis shows that by applying the Kendall technique, Kendall could gain a more profound insight into the priority characteristics of different evaluator groups.

ACS Style

Ahmad Alkharabsheh; Szabolcs Duleba. Public Transportation Service Quality Evaluation during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Amman City Using Integrated Approach Fuzzy AHP-Kendall Model. Vehicles 2021, 3, 330 -340.

AMA Style

Ahmad Alkharabsheh, Szabolcs Duleba. Public Transportation Service Quality Evaluation during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Amman City Using Integrated Approach Fuzzy AHP-Kendall Model. Vehicles. 2021; 3 (3):330-340.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Ahmad Alkharabsheh; Szabolcs Duleba. 2021. "Public Transportation Service Quality Evaluation during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Amman City Using Integrated Approach Fuzzy AHP-Kendall Model." Vehicles 3, no. 3: 330-340.

Journal article
Published: 03 March 2021 in Sustainability
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Improving the local urban transport system’s quality is often seen as one of the critical points for the government and the local operator. An amelioration of the system can improve users’ satisfaction and attract new users while simultaneously decreasing traffic congestion and pollution. Efficient methodologies are required to achieve sustainable development regarding complex issues associated with traffic congestion and pollution. In this study, we propose using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) grey values to overcome the limitations of the uncertainty in the classical AHP approach. The presented grey-AHP model assumes an efficient contrivance to facilitate the public transport system’s supply quality evaluation, especially when respondents are non-experts. Finally, we estimate and rank the public transport system’s supply quality criteria by adopting the proposed model for a real-world case study (Amman city, Jordan). The study’s outcome shows the effectiveness and the applicability of the developed approach for enhancing the quality of the public transport system.

ACS Style

Ahmad Alkharabsheh; Sarbast Moslem; Laila Oubahman; Szabolcs Duleba. An Integrated Approach of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making and Grey Theory for Evaluating Urban Public Transportation Systems. Sustainability 2021, 13, 2740 .

AMA Style

Ahmad Alkharabsheh, Sarbast Moslem, Laila Oubahman, Szabolcs Duleba. An Integrated Approach of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making and Grey Theory for Evaluating Urban Public Transportation Systems. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (5):2740.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Ahmad Alkharabsheh; Sarbast Moslem; Laila Oubahman; Szabolcs Duleba. 2021. "An Integrated Approach of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making and Grey Theory for Evaluating Urban Public Transportation Systems." Sustainability 13, no. 5: 2740.

Journal article
Published: 17 June 2020 in Applied Sciences
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Big cities suffer from serious complex problems such as air pollution, congestion, and traffic accidents. Developing public transport quality in such cities is considered an efficient remedy to obviate these critical issues. This paper aims to determine the significant supply quality criteria of public transportation. As a methodology, a hybrid Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) combined with the Best Worst Method (BWM) is applied. The proposed model is basically a hierarchy structure with at least a 5 × 5 pairwise comparison matrix or larger. A real-world complex problem was examined to validate the created model (public transport quality improvement). An urban bus transport system in the Jordanian capital city, Amman, was used as a case study; three stakeholder groups (passengers, nonpassengers, and representatives of the local government) participated in the evaluation process. The conventional Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) leads to weak consistency in the case of existing 5 × 5 pairwise comparison matrices or larger, particularly in estimating complex problems. To avoid this critical issue in AHP, we used Best Worst Method (BWM) comparisons, which make the evaluation process easier for decision makers; moreover, it saves survey time and provides more consistency when compared to AHP pairwise comparisons. The model adopted highlighted the most significant service quality criteria that influence urban bus transport systems. Furthermore, the sensitivity analysis conducted detected the stability of the criteria ranking in the three levels of the hierarchical structure. Since the proposed AHP–BWM model (which is the sole example of this sort of combination) is independent from the decision attributes, it can be applied to arbitrary hierarchically structured decision problems with a relatively large number of pairwise comparisons.

ACS Style

Sarbast Moslem; Ahmad Alkharabsheh; Karzan Ismael; Szabolcs Duleba. An Integrated Decision Support Model for Evaluating Public Transport Quality. Applied Sciences 2020, 10, 4158 .

AMA Style

Sarbast Moslem, Ahmad Alkharabsheh, Karzan Ismael, Szabolcs Duleba. An Integrated Decision Support Model for Evaluating Public Transport Quality. Applied Sciences. 2020; 10 (12):4158.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Sarbast Moslem; Ahmad Alkharabsheh; Karzan Ismael; Szabolcs Duleba. 2020. "An Integrated Decision Support Model for Evaluating Public Transport Quality." Applied Sciences 10, no. 12: 4158.

Journal article
Published: 07 November 2019 in Applied Sciences
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The demand for a service includes generally two major components; quality elements and the reasonable and affordable price. Public transport can be considered as a special service, there is no direct market competition for the provider, but the use of private transport modes substitutes the usage of public vehicles. The dominating competitor, the usage of private cars, causes higher CO2 emission and has a serious impact on the environment. Thus, it is important to analyze from market and sustainability point of view which are the preferences of the public for the improvement of the urban transport system. This paper aims to conduct this analysis by including quality criteria and transport fare criteria related to the current service of a city and by setting up and testing a generally applicable model for decision support. Since the acquisition of public preference was the primary objective, and the problem can be considered as decision making, the Analytic Hierarchy Process was selected as methodology. There are previous research results of applying this method on public transport, however, not in an integrated model, in which quality and cost considerations are pairwise compared. Thus, the conventional Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique was used and the well-proven requisites of consistency and sensitivity check were analyzed. The new model was tested in a case study: surveying the public transport demand in the capital of Jordan, Amman.

ACS Style

Ahmad Alkharabsheh; Sarbast Moslem; Szabolcs Duleba. Evaluating Passenger Demand for Development of the Urban Transport System by an AHP Model with the Real-World Application of Amman. Applied Sciences 2019, 9, 4759 .

AMA Style

Ahmad Alkharabsheh, Sarbast Moslem, Szabolcs Duleba. Evaluating Passenger Demand for Development of the Urban Transport System by an AHP Model with the Real-World Application of Amman. Applied Sciences. 2019; 9 (22):4759.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Ahmad Alkharabsheh; Sarbast Moslem; Szabolcs Duleba. 2019. "Evaluating Passenger Demand for Development of the Urban Transport System by an AHP Model with the Real-World Application of Amman." Applied Sciences 9, no. 22: 4759.