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Comparison of Multi-Criteria Decision Support Methods for Integrated Rehabilitation Prioritization
- Source :
- Water, Volume 9, Issue 2, Water, Vol 9, Iss 2, p 68 (2017)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2017.
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Abstract
- The decisions taken in rehabilitation planning for the urban water networks will have a long lasting impact on the functionality and quality of future services provided by urban infrastructure. These decisions can be assisted by different approaches ranging from linear depreciation for estimating the economic value of the network over using a deterioration model to assess the probability of failure or the technical service life to sophisticated multi-criteria decision support systems. Subsequently, the aim of this paper is to compare five available multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods (ELECTRE, AHP, WSM, TOPSIS, and PROMETHEE) for the application in an integrated rehabilitation management scheme for a real world case study and analyze them with respect to their suitability to be used in integrated asset management of water systems. The results of the different methods are not equal. This occurs because the chosen score scales, weights and the resulting distributions of the scores within the criteria do not have the same impact on all the methods. Independently of the method used, the decision maker must be familiar with its strengths but also weaknesses. Therefore, in some cases, it would be rational to use one of the simplest methods. However, to check for consistency and increase the reliability of the results, the application of several methods is encouraged.
- Subjects :
- Engineering
Decision support system
lcsh:Hydraulic engineering
decision support
Operations research
AHP
ELECTRE
media_common.quotation_subject
0208 environmental biotechnology
Geography, Planning and Development
Analytic hierarchy process
02 engineering and technology
PROMETHEE
010501 environmental sciences
Aquatic Science
01 natural sciences
Biochemistry
lcsh:Water supply for domestic and industrial purposes
urban water infrastructure
lcsh:TC1-978
Asset management
Quality (business)
TOPSIS
Reliability (statistics)
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Water Science and Technology
media_common
lcsh:TD201-500
business.industry
Management science
multi-utility rehabilitation
WSM
Multiple-criteria decision analysis
020801 environmental engineering
asset management
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20734441
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Water
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b49c4a6777f4043f02afad5e4c8c47ec