Application of a multi-criteria approach to road safety evaluation in the Bushehr province, Iran

Promet - Traffic and Transportation

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 341-352

  Haghighat, Fatemeh ^a  

^a PERSIAN GULF UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

GAHP Technique; Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM); Quantitative and qualitative criteria; Roads Safety Coefficient; TOPSIS Method

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKING; INJURY; MORTALITY; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; POLICY MAKING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROAD TRANSPORT; TRANSPORTATION POLICY; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

BUSHEHR; IRAN;

EID: 83355168325     PISSN: 03535320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7307/ptt.v23i5.152     Document Type: Article

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