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Title:

Improving Transport Planning Decision Making: Adapting the Analytical Hierarchy Approach to Large Number of Options

Accession Number:

01089291

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Urban transportation planning involves a diverse range of stakeholders of varying technical ability with often conflicting views making complex decisions on the basis of tangible and intangible factors on numerous transport alternatives. The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a decision support tool that can assist in these complex decisions. However, the pairwise decision process adopted in AHP has been criticized because it can prove tedious to use when a large number of project options are being assessed. This paper summarizes the results of an application of the AHP to assist in multi-criteria decision making in developing an Integrated Transport Plan (ITP) for the City of Moonee Valley in Melbourne, Australia. The application included the use of a new process called the Advanced Relative Voting System (AReVoS) to enable the advantages of AHP to be applied to a large range of options. The paper reviews the research related to AHP applications in transport and then explains the context of the ITP. It then describes the approach to AHP application in the ITP detailing the theory, the AreVoS method and how the technique was applied in the ITP. The results are then described including an assessment of the application and its suitability to the challenging decision making environment associated with urban transport planning projects of this kind. Overall AReVoS proved to be an effective alternative technique to conventional pairwise comparisons in cases when AHP is chosen as multi-criteria methodology and when a large number of options are to be evaluated.

Monograph Accession #:

01084478

Report/Paper Numbers:

08-0315

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Paez, Daniel
Currie, Graham

Pagination:

11p

Publication Date:

2008

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 87th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2008-1-13 to 2008-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Figures (5) ; References (18) ; Tables (1)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Integrated transportation systems

Geographic Terms:

Melbourne (Australia)

Subject Areas:

Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2008 Paper #08-0315

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 29 2008 2:40PM