A Modified Method for Evaluating Sustainable Transport Solutions Based on AHP and Dempster–Shafer Evidence Theory

Applied Sciences

Luyuan Chen¹  Xinyang Deng² 

[1] School of Computer, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China;School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China;

关键词: sustainability evaluation;    analytic hierarchy process;    Dempster–Shafer evidence theory;    Transport Sustainability Index;    car-sharing;    sensitivity analysis;   

DOI  :  10.3390/app8040563

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

With the challenge of transportation environment, a large amount of attention is paid to sustainable mobility worldwide, thus bringing the problem of the evaluation of sustainable transport solutions. In this paper, a modified method based on analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and Dempster–Shafer evidence theory (D-S theory) is proposed for evaluating the impact of transport measures on city sustainability. AHP is adapted to determine the weight of sustainability criteria while D-S theory is used for data fusion of the sustainability assessment. A Transport Sustainability Index (TSI) is presented as a primary measure to determine whether transport solutions have a positive impact on city sustainability. A case study of car-sharing is illustrated to show the efficiency of our proposed method. Our modified method has two desirable properties. One is that the BPA is generated with a new modification framework of evaluation levels, which can flexibly manage uncertain information. The other is that the modified method has excellent performance in sensitivity analysis.

【 授权许可】

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