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Assessment of alternative railway systems for sustainable transportation using an integrated IRN SWARA and IRN CoCoSo model

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  • Bouraima, Mouhamed Bayane
  • Qiu, Yanjun
  • Stević, Željko
  • Simić, Vladimir

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The long-term sustainability of the railway transportation system is determined by a set of criteria that must be considered. For this reason, multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques have been used because of their high possibility of providing complementary instruments with successful flexibility. Keeping this in mind, we developed a multi-criteria method to conduct an assessment of currently operational railway systems in West Africa for sustainable transportation based on the examination of key challenges affecting the railway system. This study presents the interval rough step-wise weight assessment ratio analysis-combined compromise solution (IR-SWARA-CoCoSo) model. We have adapted the model to group decision-making by incorporating a new technique for dealing with ambiguity and the utilization of interval rough numbers (IRNs). To evaluate the importance coefficients of criteria in the group decision-making procedure, a new interval rough SWARA method has been introduced as an improvement to handle the issues related to MCDM. For the evaluation of the railway transportation system for sustainable transportation, a novel interval rough CoCoSo method was used. According to the findings, information systems is the most critical challenge to the railway transportation system, while the railway system in Nigeria is the best among others. The results were validated in two stages of sensitivity analysis: a comparison with different interval rough approaches, and the calculation of Spearman's correlation coefficient and WS coefficient for all ranks in the comparative analysis.

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  • Bouraima, Mouhamed Bayane & Qiu, Yanjun & Stević, Željko & Simić, Vladimir, 2023. "Assessment of alternative railway systems for sustainable transportation using an integrated IRN SWARA and IRN CoCoSo model," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 86(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:soceps:v:86:y:2023:i:c:s0038012122002762
    DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2022.101475
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