The paper presents a multiple criteria analysis model to support the planning phase in designing linear infrastructures like roads, pipelines, power lines and railroads. The model outlines the decisional problem with a network and solves it using multiple criteria combinatorial optimisation. The model has been applied to a case study in Northern Italy. The model seems to demonstrate good potentiality, improving the phase of alternatives designing as it allows contemporaneous management of a large number of alternatives without the need of identifying them beforehand, as in the classic multiple attribute approach. Furthermore, the model can easily provide simulations and sensitivity analysis. However, it presents some limits as high data needs and a simplified approach for qualitative parameters and distributive aspects evaluation.
A multiple criteria analysis model for the localisation of linear infrastructures
Rosato P.
2001-01-01
Abstract
The paper presents a multiple criteria analysis model to support the planning phase in designing linear infrastructures like roads, pipelines, power lines and railroads. The model outlines the decisional problem with a network and solves it using multiple criteria combinatorial optimisation. The model has been applied to a case study in Northern Italy. The model seems to demonstrate good potentiality, improving the phase of alternatives designing as it allows contemporaneous management of a large number of alternatives without the need of identifying them beforehand, as in the classic multiple attribute approach. Furthermore, the model can easily provide simulations and sensitivity analysis. However, it presents some limits as high data needs and a simplified approach for qualitative parameters and distributive aspects evaluation.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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