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原文传递 Entropy-STEP Multiobjective Trade-Off Analysis Method for Optimal Transportation Investment Decisions

题名：	Entropy-STEP Multiobjective Trade-Off Analysis Method for Optimal Transportation Investment Decisions
其他题名：	AASHTO.(2003)."User benefit analysis for highways."Washington,DC.
正文语种：	英文
作者：	Tung Truong
关键词：	Performance criteria;Trade-off analysis;Multiobjective;Noncommensurable;Investment decision making;Capital investment
摘要：	The transportation decision-making process is complicated in that it often involves conflicting interests and expectations of different stakeholders. To ensure achieving sound decisions, various performance criteria in economic, social, and environmental dimensions are typically utilized to assess and prioritize investment alternatives. This paper introduces an entropy-STEP (e-STEP, where STEP is the uppercase of the word step) multiobjective trade-off analysis method for optimal transportation investment decisions. Its entropy component derives normalized relative importance for multiple noncommensurable performance criteria by refining the prior relative importance with additional context-dependent information on the relative importance. The STEP component conducts trade-off analysis and makes efficient investment decisions using a multiobjective optimization formulation. The model is converted to a linear programming model with refined relative importance for performance criteria to derive efficient solutions. The proposed method is applied in a computational study using data on a state-level toll highway capital investment program in the United States. The same data set is used to execute the traditional STEP method and surrogate worth trade-off (SWT) method used in the current practice. Cross comparisons of decision outcomes reveal that the e-STEP method outperforms the other two methods, suggesting that it could be adopted by transportation agencies to develop capital investment programs.
出版年：	2018
论文唯一标识：	P-72Y2018V144N01002
英文栏目名称：	TECHNICAL PAPERS
doi：	10.1061/JTEPBS.0000100
期刊名称：	Journal of Transportation Engineering
拼音刊名(出版物代码)：	P-72
卷：	144
期：	01
页码：	1-13