Two novel FMCDM methods for alternative-fuel buses selection

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1396-1412

  Vahdani, Behnam ^a   Zandieh, M ^b   Tavakkoli Moghaddam, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Alternative fuel; Electric bus; Fuzzy multi criteria decision making (FMCDM); Linguistic variable; Preference selection index (PSI)

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE-FUEL BUS; ELECTRIC BUS; FUZZY ENVIRONMENTS; FUZZY MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKINGS; IDEAL SOLUTIONS; LINGUISTIC VARIABLE; MULTIPLE-CRITERIA DECISION-MAKING; PERFORMANCE RATINGS; PREFERENCE SELECTION; SELECTION PROBLEMS; TRAPEZOIDAL FUZZY NUMBERS; TRIANGULAR FUZZY NUMBERS;

ALTERNATIVE FUELS; BUSES; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRIC VEHICLES; FUEL CELLS; FUZZY RULES; FUZZY SETS; LINGUISTICS; METHANOL; METHANOL FUELS;

FUZZY SET THEORY;

EID: 78549231222     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2010.09.018     Document Type: Article

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