The Use of Hybrid BWM and GA in Estimating the Importance Rate of Planning Principles of Livable Urban Transportation

Khishdari, Abolfazl; Mirzahossein, Hamid; Salehi Kamamardakhi, Seyyed Komeil; Ansari, Ramin

doi:10.22034/aaud.2024.436788.2859

The Use of Hybrid BWM and GA in Estimating the Importance Rate of Planning Principles of Livable Urban Transportation

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Abolfazl Khishdari ¹

Hamid Mirzahossein ²

Seyyed Komeil Salehi Kamamardakhi ³

Ramin Ansari ⁴

¹ Ph.D. Candidate in Civil Engineering-Transportation Planning, Faculty of Technology and Engineering, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran.

² Associate Professor of Civil Engineering-Transportation Planning, Faculty of Engineering, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran (Corresponding Author).

³ Assistant Professor of Public Administration and Urban Management, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran.

⁴ Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran.

10.22034/aaud.2024.436788.2859

Abstract

Now, the increasing growth of urbanism and inconsistency between transportation infrastructures and demand for personal car use have made it necessary to adopt proper plans to match the existing supply and demand. In this case, transportation planning based on sharing various modes is an appropriate technique of planning matched with the space and design of urban elements structured based on ten fundamental principles. This paper aims to determine the importance rate of these principles in the field of livable urban transportation planning. For this purpose, the optimal weight of defined principles is estimated by using the hybrid Best-Worst Method (BWM) and Genetic Algorithm (GA) technique. To implement the proposed technique, the Tehran metropolis which is one of the overpopulated cities in the Middle East is considered a case study. First, a questionnaire for detecting the best (most important) and worst (less important) principles was designed to collect experts' ideas, and the second questionnaire was then used to examine the weight of the ten principles introduced in the references. Results of the first questionnaire showed that among 10 introduced principles for Tehran, the principle of simultaneous transportation and city planning had the highest importance, and the principle of determining fair carfare for different transportation modes had the lowest importance. According to the analysis of the second questionnaire and implementation of GA until response stability is reached, the principle of simultaneous transportation and city planning is three times more important than other principles, and it must receive special attention in urban transportation planning. The reason may be related to the considerable gap between Tehran and livable principles; thus, synergy in solutions obtained from integrated and simultaneous points of view can solve the sophisticated urban issues.

Keywords

Urban Transportation Planning

Livable City

Best-Worst

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