Sustainable transport fleet appraisal using a hybrid multi-objective decision making approach

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 250, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 309-340

  Bai, Chunguang ^a   Fahimnia, Behnam ^b   Sarkis, Joseph ^c  

^a DONGBEI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental sustainability; Grey numbers; Rough set theory; Transport fleet evaluation; Transportation vehicle; VIKOR

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944555803     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-015-2009-z     Document Type: Article

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