A hybrid life cycle and multi-criteria decision analysis approach for identifying sustainable development strategies of Beijing's taxi fleet

Cai, Yanpeng; Applegate, Scott; Yue, Wencong; Cai, Jianying; Wang, Xuan; Liu, Gengyuan; Li, Chunhui

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2016.09.047

Cited by 31 publications

(11 citation statements)

References 47 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The most meaningful way to compare the ranking results of different MCDA methods is to compare evaluations with the same data set of criteria and alternatives. Papers which apply several MCDA methods on the same data set most often find relatively consistent rankings [23,29,30,35,38]. Similar to such analyses, Lanjewar et al [41] and Vahdani et al [50] apply different MCDA methods on data sets already used and ranked in previous publications.…”

Section: Comparison Of Results Of Similar Analysesmentioning

confidence: 87%

“…Most papers rank ethanol fuels higher in comparison to other fuels [46,48] or consider them better suited for light vehicles [31,47,52,54,59,60], but less for buses or trucks [32,44]. Biodiesel, HVO and BTL [32,39,47,48,52,[54][55][56], as well as BEV, HEV and PiHV, score relatively well [23,29,32,34,35,39,46,47,55,56].…”

Section: Comparison Of Results Of Similar Analysesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Lanjewar et al [41] combine the 'Graph Theory and Matrix Approach' (GTMA) and the AHP method. Cai et al [35] apply ELECTRE additionally to WSM and TOPSIS. Büyüközkan et al [30] compare the results of a newly proposed Intuitionistic Fuzzy Choquet Integral to the ones obtained with a 2-additiive Choquet integral and TOPSIS.…”

Section: Summary Of Mcda Methods and Background Of Reviewed Papersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Heo et al [12] rely on the BOCR approach and a review by experts to select their criteria. Other authors use a Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) or Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) approach to define their evaluation criteria [13,29,[35][36][37]40], while Hayashi et al [43] base their selection on the indicators in the Global Bioenergy Partnership. Perimenis et al [53] and Büyüközkan et al [30] rely solely on expert opinion to identify relevant criteria.…”

Section: Rationale For Selection Of Alternatives and Criteriamentioning

confidence: 99%

See 3 more Smart Citations

Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis of Road Transportation Fuels and Vehicles: A Systematic Review and Classification of the Literature

Kügemann

Polatidis

2019

Energies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) methods help decision makers to consider and weigh diverse criteria that include economic, environmental, social and technological aspects. This characteristic makes them a popular tool to comparatively evaluate road transportation fuels and vehicles (RTFV). The aim of this paper is to systematically classify and analyse the literature applying MCDA methods on the evaluation of RTFV. To this end, 40 relevant papers are pinpointed and discussed. We identified a great number of evaluation criteria employed in the reviewed papers from which we have established a concluding list of 41 criteria, that can serve as a pool for future research. A further analysis of the evaluation criteria reveals that the process of criteria selection partly suffers from a lack of scientific foundation and standardization. We propose to standardize the criteria selection process by using the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) methodology as a guiding reference. In addition, we compared the MCDA results obtained from studies with relatively similar setups and found that the evaluation results are also generally similar and seem not to be influenced by the particular MCDA method employed. Based on the results of the reviewed papers, one may say that electricity and ethanol appear to be good alternatives for light vehicles, whereas gaseous fuels seem more appropriate for heavy vehicles like buses. Striking deviations from these generally observed results are often caused by specific evaluation contexts, particular criteria taken into account and unusual weight sets applied.The last category (c) is concerned with hydrogen in particular, as is a potential energy carrier in the aforementioned fuel cell vehicles. Three specific hydrogen production paths are evaluated, i.e., electrolysis, steam reforming and gasification, sourced from different feedstock [11][12][13][14][15]. Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis MethodsThis Section shortly outlines the MCDA methods most often used in the reviewed papers. MCDA methods can be broadly divided in Multi-Attribute Decision Making (MADM) with limited solutions for a finite set of alternatives and Multi-Objective Decision Making (MODM) with indefinite solutions for an indefinite set of possible scenarios [16]. MODM methods usually comprise some form of optimization, for instance linear or nonlinear programming. These methods start with certain restrictions which determine the optimal solution [17] and find a solution by optimizing the resulting

show abstract

Section: Comparison Of Results Of Similar Analysesmentioning

confidence: 87%

Section: Comparison Of Results Of Similar Analysesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Summary Of Mcda Methods and Background Of Reviewed Papersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Rationale For Selection Of Alternatives and Criteriamentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis of Road Transportation Fuels and Vehicles: A Systematic Review and Classification of the Literature

Kügemann

Polatidis

2019

Energies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Schmale et al [77] proposed an Integrated MCA-based Assessment Method for Sustainable Transport System Planning in a Middle Sized German City. The authors of [78] [81]. In the study by Pérez et al [82], a broad state of the art analysis was performed on MCA approach in choice and evaluation of urban passenger problems.…”

Section: The Set Of Evaluation Criteriamentioning

confidence: 99%

Multi-Criteria Analysis of Electric Vans for City Logistics

et al. 2017

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Atmospheric emissions of anthropogenic origin are one of the most important problems in cities. A particularly discrete ecological footprint in urban environment is made by urban freight transport. This problem has become the key challenge for all stakeholder groups involved in freight transport in urban areas. Over the recent years, there has been a growing interest in using alternative fuel vehicles in urban logistics, including those equipped with electric drive systems. This paper presents a multi-criteria analysis (MCA) of selected electric vehicles (EVs) in the context of their application for the purposes of deliveries in cities. In methodological terms, we present a unique MCA-based approach for evaluation of Electric Freight Vehicles (EFVs). A successful attempt is made to build a multistep MCA procedure based on two carefully selected MCDA methods (PROMETHEE II and fuzzy TOPSIS) to handle both certain and uncertain data sets in a single decision process. In practical terms, we successfully demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed approach by creating a set of decision maker's preference models (based on certain and uncertain data) of carefully selected EFVs and provide sensitivity and robustness analyses of the obtained solutions.

show abstract

Multicriteria decision making for sustainable development: A systematic review

Kandakoğlu

Frini

Amor

2019

Multi Criteria Decision Anal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Making decisions by integrating social and environmental concerns beyond the financial dimension involves complex decision-making processes in which innovative approaches and best practices need to be implemented. Recently, the literature on decision-making related to sustainable development has grown rapidly, and multiple criteria decision making or analysis (MCDM/A) methods appear to be the most widely used approaches. The general objective of this paper is to provide a systematic review of the literature on the use of MCDM/A in a sustainable development context. We carefully analysed 343 papers dealing with decision-making in sustainable development contexts published in the last 7 years (2010-2017) using MCDM/A methods. Descriptive statistics were provided to highlight the main trends and gaps in the literature, and future research avenues were presented. The results show that although sustainable development strives to achieve a balance between the short and the long term, most articles surveyed did not investigate either the long-term perspective related to sustainable development or the unforeseen events that could impact future project evaluations. Indeed, the need for temporal MCDM/A methods under uncertainty emerges as an important research challenge. In addition, resultsshow that the social dimension was the most frequently ignored dimension. In future research, decision-making processes should closely investigate social well-being and encourage the participation of stakeholders (including the communities affected).Finally, the recent research on sustainability is relatively easy to implement but may not lead to the desired outcome. Future research needs to develop methods that promote sustainability without being overly difficult to implement in practice. KEYWORDS multicriteria decision making or analysis (MCDM/A), sustainable development, temporal evaluation, uncertainty 1 | INTRODUCTION Today's decision-making processes evolve in a context in which sustainability is a major concern and decisions have to be made based on the triple bottom line. Decision processes should simultaneously take into account the economic, social, and environmental impacts of decisions within a long-term vision. Making decisions beyond the financial dimension by integrating social and environmental concerns involves complex decision-making processes in which innovative approaches and best practices need to be developed and implemented.As a major societal concern, sustainable development (SD) is now incorporated into the legislation of many countries around the world.

show abstract

A hybrid life cycle and multi-criteria decision analysis approach for identifying sustainable development strategies of Beijing's taxi fleet

Cited by 31 publications

References 47 publications

Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis of Road Transportation Fuels and Vehicles: A Systematic Review and Classification of the Literature

Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis of Road Transportation Fuels and Vehicles: A Systematic Review and Classification of the Literature

Multi-Criteria Analysis of Electric Vans for City Logistics

Multicriteria decision making for sustainable development: A systematic review

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About