Prioritizing Strategies for Sustainable End-of-Life Vehicle Management Using Combinatorial Multi-Criteria Decision Making Method

Abstract

Sustainable end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) management has become a top important issue for automotive industries in many countries to tackle environmental and economic challenges. Currently, parts of the ELVs are used in many different ways, which often increase environmental hazards and reduce economic benefits. The selection of the best compromise ELVs management alternative (e.g., reuse, remanufacturing, and recycling) can bring maximum sustainability performances for any society or organization when things are to be settled professionally. The present paper proposes a multicriteria decision-making approach using Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) and extent analysis method on fuzzy AHP (FEAHP) to aid the decision maker in selecting the best compromise ELV management alternative with respect to the sustainable criteria. Here, DEMATEL is used to evaluate the sustainable criteria and then FEAHP is applied to evaluate the best alternatives. A case study is presented to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed approach in real-world applications. The results show that it is a viable approach and can be used as an effective tool for criteria and alternative evaluation. Finally, the implication of this study and limitations are also discussed.

DEMATEL Technique: A Systematic Review of the State-of-the-Art Literature on Methodologies and Applications

“…Third, it can be used to determine critical factors or criteria via analyzing their dependent relations. For example, the DEMATEL method was applied first to select the most important sustainable criteria, and fuzzy AHP is constructed next to rank end-oflife vehicle management alternatives [108].…”

End-of-life vehicle management: a comprehensive review

“…Pan and Li [142] employed an improved emergy analysis with traditional and revised emergy indices for evaluation of the efficiency and sustainability of ELV recycling enterprises. Ahmed et al [143,144] used DEMATEL and extent analysis method on the fuzzy AHP to rank ELV management alternatives concerning several sustainable criteria. Pourjavad and Mayorga [145] also proposed an integrated fuzzy DM framework to evaluate sustainable ELV strategies.…”

End‐of‐life vehicle recovery factors: Malaysian stakeholders' views and future research needs

“…One of the items highlighted in the directive is that the vehicle design should facilitate dismantling, reuse, recovery and recycling of ELVs, as well as their components and materials. Many research efforts have been made to tackle this issue, which is evident from the extensive number of studies related to various aspects of ELV management, such as product retirement recovery strategies (Atasu, Guide, & Wassenhove, ; Guide, ; Ishii, Eubanks, & Marco, ; Ishii & Lee, ; Rose, Ishii & Masui, ; Umeda, ; Umeda, Fukushige, Mizuno, & Matsuyama, ), optimization of disassembly sequences (Go, Wahab, Rahman, Ramli, & Hussain, ), material selection strategy (Sakundarini, Taha, Abdul‐Rashid, & Ghazilla, ), closed loop supply chain (Bhattacharjee & Cruz, ; Chen & Chang, ; Georgiadis & Besiou, , ; Kumar & Yamaoka, ) and product end‐of‐life (EOL) options (Ahmed et al, ; Remery, Mascle, & Agard, ).…”

“…, closed loop supply chain (Bhattacharjee & Cruz, 2015;Chen & Chang, 2012;Georgiadis & Besiou, 2008Kumar & Yamaoka, 2007) and product end-of-life (EOL) options (Ahmed et al, 2015;Remery, Mascle, & Agard, 2012).…”