A B S T R A C TThis paper presents a new compromising approach to multiple criteria group decision-making (MCGDM) for the treatment of uncertainty which is based on Pythagorean fuzzy (PF) sets. The present work intends to propose a novel linear programming technique for multidimensional analysis of preference (LINMAP) by way of some useful concepts related to PF dominance relations, individual consistency and inconsistency levels, and individual fit measurements. The concept of PF scalar function-based dominance measures is defined to conduct intracriterion comparisons concerning uncertain evaluation information based on Pythagorean fuzziness; moreover, several valuable properties are also investigated to demonstrate its effectiveness. For the assessment of overall dominance of alternatives, this paper provides a synthetic index, named a comprehensive dominance measure, which is the aggregation of the weighted dominance measures by combining unknown weight information and PF dominance measures of various criteria. For each decision-maker, this paper employs the proposed measures to evaluate the individual levels of rank consistency and rank inconsistency regarding the obtained overall dominance relations and the decision-maker's preference comparisons over paired alternatives. In the framework of individual fit measurements, this paper constructs bi-objective mathematical programming models and then provides their corresponding parametric linear programming models for generating the best compromise alternative. Realistic applications with some comparative analyses concerning railway project investment are implemented to demonstrate the appropriateness and usefulness of the proposed methodology in addressing actual MCGDM problems.However, the classical LINMAP methods cannot be directly employed to handle the decision-making problems involving fuzzy information because of the uncertainty contained in performance information or evaluation values of candidate alternatives in terms of criteria [8][9][10]. Accordingly, numerous studies have extended the classical LINMAP for conducting multiple criteria decision analysis in a variety of different fuzzy circumstances. For example, Wan and Li [11] emanated from LINMAP to construct an intuitionistic fuzzy programming method for handling heterogeneous MCGDM containing intuitionistic fuzzy truth degrees. Furthermore, Wan and Li [8] considered the hesitancy degrees about pairwise comparisons as interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets to establish a fuzzy LINMAP-based method for conducting a heterogeneous decision analysis. Zhang et al. [12] utilized the LINMAP and Shapley values to develop an interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy mathematical programming model to manage uncertain MCGDM problems. Moreover, Zhang et al.[13] established a mathematical programming-based approach to heterogeneous MCGDM involving aspirations and incomplete preference information. Zhang and Xu [10] applied the LINMAP structure to present an interval programming method for handling MCGDM problems