Evaluating Goals and Impacts of Two Metro
Alternatives by the AHP

 

Dominique Mouette
Jurandir F.R. Fernandes

The transport planning and its decision making involve a large number of goals and more than one alternative to be evaluated. This analysis comprises technical and financial features up to social and environmental impacts. We show how the AHP is a useful tool in this procedure, and evaluate several objectives and impacts of the implantation of the third metro line in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, where there were two alternative outlines and one of them to be selected.

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