Selection of Alternative Fuels for Sustainable Urban Transportation under Multi-criteria Intuitionistic Fuzzy Environment

Peer review under responsibility of Fuzzy Information and Engineering Branch of the Operations Research Society of China.

Abstract

The unrestrained expansion in urbanization and increasing development of new means of transports result in major urban land use and transportation system which is socially, economically and environmentally unsustainable. Hence the major challenge for the decision makers regarding the transportation policies is to choose the alternative fuel operated vehicles resulting in a sustainable transportation system. In real life situations, it is difficult to get exact data, so to express the uncertain data, intuitionistic fuzzy data has been considered. The problem is to select the best fuel technology for land transportation subject to multiple criterions resulting in a sustainable transportation system in an uncertain environment. Here, the similarity measures of Intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs) are applied for developing a methodology for identifying the best option. The weights of the attributes may be known or partially known or unknown. The unknown weights are determined by normalizing the average score functions of the intuitionistic fuzzy data for the criterion. Algorithms are given for handling different situations and numerical examples illustrate the varied cases.

Keywords:

• Sustainable urban transportation
• Multi-criteria decision making
• Similarity measures
• Intuitionistic fuzzy sets

Notes

Peer review under responsibility of Fuzzy Information and Engineering Branch of the Operations Research Society of China.