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Use of AHP Multi-Criteria Method for Transportation Infrastructure Planning

Planning, design and implementation of traffic infrastructure is a complex task especially when it is done for infrastructure located in urban areas because it depends on different factors and interests. This is why the solutions have to be evaluated by different type of criteria (traffic, economic, environmental and social). For this purpose during last decades multi-criteria methods came into use and numerous methods have been developed which are classified as multi-criteria analysis methods (e.g. PROMETHEE, ELECTRE, AHP). In this paper the overview of how the multi-criteria analysis method AHP - Analytic Hierarchy Process is used as decision making tool in the process of transportation planning is given. AHP has been used for analysing different types of problems in the field of transportation engineering: selection of routes for railways, roads, bicycle, metro-lines, and selection of priorities of construction for transportation objects. In the paper the case study in which AHP is used for defining priorities in planning multi-store garages is described. In this case five different locations using four main criteria and eight sub-criteria were evaluated with AHP method. The results show that AHP can be used for evaluation of location for transport facilities and that the AHP methodology can be easily implemented in transportation infrastructure planning. It gives the possibility to make decisions using a larger number of criteria, enables the pair-wise comparison of alternatives and enables the involvement of all interested parties.

AHP; garage-parking facilities; multi-criteria; planning; transportation infrastructure.

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