Improved hierarchical fuzzy TOPSIS for road safety performance evaluation

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 32, Issue , 2012, Pages 84-90

  Bao, Qiong ^a   Ruan, Da ^a,b   Shen, Yongjun ^a   Hermans, Elke ^a   Janssens, Davy ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Composite index; Decision support system; Fuzzy set theory; Hierarchical structure; Multi criteria decision making; Road safety performance indicators; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE INDEX; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; ROAD SAFETY; TOPSIS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BENCHMARKING; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FUZZY SET THEORY;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

EID: 84861591272     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2011.08.014     Document Type: Article

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