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The deficiencies in the Istanbul transportation system have led the local authorities to plan several alternative transportation projects. In this paper three alternative rail transit network proposals are evaluated by using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a multiple criteria decision support system. The AHP facilitates decision-making by organizing perceptions, experiences, knowledge and judgments, the forces that influence the decision, into a hierarchical framework with a goal, scenarios, criteria and alternatives of choice. Based on this analysis, the decision makers have developed a new alternative as a combination of the most closely competing two alternative rail transit networks. This combination rail transit network is currently under construction.
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Gerçek, H., Karpak, B. & Kılınçaslan, T. A multiple criteria approach for the evaluation of the rail transit networks in Istanbul. Transportation 31, 203–228 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:PORT.0000016572.41816.d2
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