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Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for Traffic Risk Assessment Based on Unbalanced Double Hierarchy Linguistic Term Set

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As an important technique in safety and reliability analysis, failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) has been widely utilized to identify and eliminate existing and potential failure. When evaluating the failure modes (FMs), the weights of different FMs are always incompletely known, and different information forms are used to describe the risk assessment issues. The objective of the paper is developing a new approach to solve risk assessment problems faced by four transportation forms in fuzzy and complex environment. In the process of the assessment, the unbalanced double hierarchy linguistic term set (UDHLTS) is used as a linguistic technique to describe the information reasonably and practically. The contributions of this paper are reflected in the following four aspects. Firstly, three linguistic scale functions (LSFs) of the UDHLTS are improved and a semantic model with distinct linguistic cognitive bias parameters is constructed and unified. Secondly, multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) method is applied to FMEA, and an FMEA-MACBETH model is presented to address the risk assessment problems under UDHLTS environment. Meanwhile, weight determination method is built based on the CRITIC method under the situation of completely unknown weights. Finally, a case study of risk assessment in different transportation forms is used to explain the feasibility and rationality of the presented method. Comparison and discussion are conducted to further demonstrate the advantages of the proposed method.

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This paper is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71771140), the Taishan Scholars Project of Shandong Province, Shandong Provincial Key Research and Development Program(Major Scientific and Technological Innovation Project) (Nos. 2021SFGC0102, 2020CXGC010110).

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Liu, P., Shen, M. Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for Traffic Risk Assessment Based on Unbalanced Double Hierarchy Linguistic Term Set. Int. J. Fuzzy Syst. 25, 423–450 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40815-022-01412-x

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