Application of the TOPSIS and intuitionistic fuzzy set approaches for ranking the life cycle sustainability performance of alternative vehicle technologies

Sustainable Production and Consumption

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages 12-25

  Onat, Nuri Cihat ^a   Gumus, Serkan ^b   Kucukvar, Murat ^c   Tatari, Omer ^d  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TURKISH MILITARY ACADEMY   (Turkey)

^c ISTANBUL SEHIR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Electric vehicles; Intuitionistic fuzzy; Life cycle sustainability assessment; Multi Criteria Decision Making; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960104651     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23525509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2015.12.003     Document Type: Article

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