Multi-criteria Decision Making and Sustainable Transport

Dear Colleagues,

Mobility is one of the central themes for the development of a city, which can be declined in different aspects, using different methods and approaches. Current transport policies are increasingly focused on defining measures on mobility that can increase sustainability.

In order to evaluate the results produced by such strategies and/or to analyze in advance various aspects of mobility, it is necessary to have adequate knowledge tools to make it possible to monitor developments in the transport system and evaluate possible interventions. The choice of these tools must be shared as much as possible among stakeholders in order to contribute to the creation of a broad consensus on the measures to be taken.

With this Special Issue, we are looking for the description and analysis of the strategies, initiatives, and actions identified and implemented through the acquisition, processing, and interpretation of data from different sources, aimed at promoting, disseminating, and undertaking change towards sustainable mobility.

Multi-criteria analysis represents a wide family of techniques that can simultaneously take into account a multiplicity of aspects of the problem being addressed, both qualitative and quantitative, bringing out the different points of view of the actors involved. One of their accredited articulations in the specialist literature is based on reciprocal compensatory (rebalancing) or non-compensatory character of the criteria of used evaluation.

This Special Issue will consist of papers applying multi-criteria decision-making methodologies for evaluating and selecting the best solution for solving transport complex issues (quality issues, safety issues, behavior issues, survey design issues). In this Special Issue, we invite papers related to all transport sectors which utilize multi-criteria decision making as a methodology (AHP/ANP; BWM; TOPSIS; DEMATEL; PROMETHEE; ELECTRE and MABAC). The adopted outcomes can provide sustainable and efficient solutions for transport future strategic plans.

Dr. Sarbast Moslem
Dr. Tiziana Campisi
Dr. Nurten Akgün
Dr. Kh Md Nahiduzzaman
Guest Editors

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