Transportation planning with analytic hierarchy process and goal programming

Abstract

Transportation planning process, which requires a multi-criteria decision making a very specificdecision, is one of the most important issues of metropolitan cities. There are many projects inthe field of rail systems in Istanbul and some of these projects are monorail projects. Throughthis way, urban transportation is supported by various types of public transportation. However, itis not possible to allocate the resources to all projects at the same time. This is affected byseveral criteria, especially by limited budgetary constraints. In this study, monorail projects wereevaluated in accordance with urban needs of Istanbul and the planning was done under threedifferent budget scenarios. The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was used in the evaluationprocess of the projects and the goal programming (GP) model was used for the selection process.As a result, the selection of the monorail projects planned for Istanbul was made.