scholarly journals Evaluating Passenger Demand for Development of the Urban Transport System by an AHP Model with the Real-World Application of Amman

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (22) ◽  
pp. 4759 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Alkharabsheh ◽  
Sarbast Moslem ◽  
Szabolcs Duleba
Keyword(s):  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Transport System ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Quality Criteria ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Hierarchy Process

The demand for a service includes generally two major components; quality elements and the reasonable and affordable price. Public transport can be considered as a special service, there is no direct market competition for the provider, but the use of private transport modes substitutes the usage of public vehicles. The dominating competitor, the usage of private cars, causes higher CO2 emission and has a serious impact on the environment. Thus, it is important to analyze from market and sustainability point of view which are the preferences of the public for the improvement of the urban transport system. This paper aims to conduct this analysis by including quality criteria and transport fare criteria related to the current service of a city and by setting up and testing a generally applicable model for decision support. Since the acquisition of public preference was the primary objective, and the problem can be considered as decision making, the Analytic Hierarchy Process was selected as methodology. There are previous research results of applying this method on public transport, however, not in an integrated model, in which quality and cost considerations are pairwise compared. Thus, the conventional Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique was used and the well-proven requisites of consistency and sensitivity check were analyzed. The new model was tested in a case study: surveying the public transport demand in the capital of Jordan, Amman.

scholarly journals Application of analytic hierarchy process to evaluate design criteria for humane trap cage.

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-35
Author(s):  
Sivajothi Paramasivam ◽  
Hari Krishnan Munisamy ◽  
Santhansamy Rayappan
Keyword(s):  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Quality Criteria ◽  
Design Criteria ◽  
Animal Population ◽  
Chronic Infections ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Selection Of

Atrocities against stray animal’s especially large number of scavenging street dogs have increased at an alarming rate nationwide. Relevant authorities, in view of controlling stray animal population and curb chronic infections mulled cracking down on stray dogs using inhumane methods such as usage of tranquilizers or forcefully capturing. Thus, causing injuries, trauma and potentially death to these captured strays. Even though statistics about the number of violent incidents against strays remains unknown but animal welfare groups report constant complaints regarding animal cruelty. Animal activists mooted a request to design and built a modernize efficient yet low cost trap cage with a provision of technology which are normally ignored by many quarters; as a vehicle to educate the public on humane and compassionate ways to treat stray animals.   The design of the cage involves consists of 3 parts, which was electronics hardware, communication system and critically the structure hardware whereby to withstand the possible aggressiveness of the animal. The objective of this paper is to present and apply the techniques of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) in the prioritization and selection of design criteria of the trap cage. The finding shows that out of 5 design criteria, quality criteria is the most important criteria in designing of a humane trap cage issue. This is followed by innovativeness, cost, safety and aesthetics factors.

scholarly journals Commercial Value Assessment of “Grey Space” under Overpasses: Analytic Hierarchy Process

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Jiafei Sheng ◽  
Hong Xu ◽  
Junyan Zheng ◽  
Mandi Luo ◽  
Xuan Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Structure ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Transport System ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Value Assessment ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Use Of Space ◽  
Weight Analysis ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
The City

Although the rise of urban overpasses has optimized the urban transport system and improved the spatial structure of the city, the use of space under overpasses has many problems, and they can be dark, short, unpleasant, and abandoned spaces which are full of girders and include ill-shaped areas in some places. This study aims at the recent study of space utilization under overpasses. Taking the Xudong district in Wuhan as an example, the multistandards weight analysis was conducted to evaluate the value of the commercial form of the “grey space” under overpasses and analyzed the feasibility of commercial forms.

scholarly journals The Priority of Factors of Building Government as a Platform with Analytic Hierarchy Process Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 5615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyungjun Seo ◽  
Seunghwan Myeong
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Electronic Government ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Government ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Nowadays, the Government as a Platform (GaaP) based on cloud computing and network, has come to be considered a new structure to manage efficiently data-driven administration in the public sector. When the GaaP concept was first introduced, the ICT infrastructures that could underpin GaaP were not sufficiently developed. However, the recent digital transformation has transformed the previous electronic government, which was system- and architecture-oriented. As part of the next generation of government models, GaaP may reinvent the government at a lower cost but with better performance, similar to the case of electronic government two decades ago. This study attempted to determine the priority of factors of GaaP by using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) methodology. Because of the GaaP characteristics, we drew the main components for building GaaP from previous studies and a group interview with experts. The study results show that experts tend to prefer publicness in terms of building GaaP. Most of the factors that the experts weighed with the highest importance are related to the public sector, which revealed that governments should focus on their primary duty, regardless of the origin and characteristics of the platform in GaaP. However, since GaaP allows governments to be more horizontal and innovative, the platform approach can fundamentally shift the existing processes and culture of the public sector. The enhanced activity of citizens with ICT can also accelerate the introduction of GaaP. Finally, the study showed that a data-driven GaaP is necessary to efficiently handle big data, contract services, and multiple levels of on-line and off-line channels. In this public platform, government, citizens, and private sector organizations can work cooperatively as partners to seamlessly govern the hyper-connected society.

scholarly journals Sustainable Urban Transport Planning Considering Different Stakeholder Groups by an Interval-AHP Decision Support Model

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omid Ghorbanzadeh ◽  
Sarbast Moslem ◽  
Thomas Blaschke ◽  
Szabolcs Duleba
Keyword(s):  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Pairwise Comparison ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Preference Ranking ◽  
Decision Support Model ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Sustainable urban transport requires smart and environmentally-friendly technical solutions. It also needs to meet the demands of different user groups, including current and potential future users, in order to avoid opposition of the citizens and to support sustainable development decisions. While these requirements are well-known, conducting full surveys of user needs and preferences are tedious and costly, and the interests of different user groups may be contradictory. We therefore developed a methodology based on the prevalent Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), which is capable of dealing with the inconsistencies and uncertainties of users’ responses by applying an Interval Analytic Hierarchy Process (IAHP) through comparing the results of passengers to reference stakeholder groups. For a case study in Mersin, a coastal city in southern Turkey with 1.7 Million inhabitants, three groups were surveyed with questionnaires: 40 users of the public transport system, 40 non-users, and 17 experts. Based on interval pairwise comparison matrices, consisting of whole judgments of all groups, the IAHP methodology could attain a consensual preference ranking for a future public transportation system between the three groups. A sensitivity analysis revealed that the factor ranking was very stable.

scholarly journals Possibilities and conditions for the implementation of integration solutions in public transport on the example of a dobule-city area Slupsk-Ustka

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
Tomasz Adamkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Mass Transport ◽  
Transport System ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Cooperation Agreement ◽  
Mutual Cooperation ◽  
The Public ◽  
City Area ◽  
System Operating

The article presents the problems of integration solutions in mass transport. This topic is based on the connections between Słupsk and Ustka, which is linked by a mutual cooperation agreement. Both towns form a dobule-city area, which aims to conduct a common regional policy. The aim of this article is to demonstrate the legitimacy of integrating the mass transport system operating in this area. The task of integration processes on the public transport market is to provide the inhabitants of a region with a reliable transport system, streamlining the movement by a transparent tariff, adjusting the network of connections to the demand and shortening the travel time. It is necessary to construct a transport offer in such a way as to promote the attractiveness of public transport, in particular against the background of individual motorisation. The premise for building an integrated transport system should be all postulates of inhabitants of a region. The results of the research project carried out prove that the issue of integrating public transport in this area is still valid. Their comparison with the proposed integration assumptions indicates that these solutions are an opportunity to improve its functioning. Implementation of the assumptions linking urban transport in Słupsk with mass transport in the Słupsk-Ustka corridor would contribute to strengthening the cooperation of both cities and improving their tourist attractiveness. However, it requires proper cooperation of local governments, taking into account all the travel postulates of the inhabitants of the region. The administrative boundaries can not constitute barriers to smooth movement between these cities.

ANOVA Based Significance Testing of Non-functional Requirements in Software Engineering

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 100-117
Author(s):  
Harsimran Kaur ◽  
Ashish Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Significance Testing ◽  
Software System ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
System Software ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Interpretive Structural Modeling ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Non-functional requirements (NFRs) demonstrate how the software system works, though functional requirements represent the tasks of the system (software system). It does not indicate that the latter is more significant, but a majority of requirement collecting approaches emphasis on functional requirements. Therefore, due to the subjective nature and complexity of NFRs, it is relatively impractical to focus on each NFRs. The primary objective of this article is to model NFRs in the form of a Soft Goal Interdependency Digraph (SID). The SID is based on the Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) technique which in turn employs the Matrices Impacts Cruise's Multiplication Applique a UN Casement (MICMAC) and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) techniques for the identification of significant NFRs. Therefore, the proposed method allows the analysts and developers to monitor and select best possible trade off selections between NFRs. To evaluate the significance of the proposed technique over others, Analysis of variance (ANOVA) based significance testing is also implemented.

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