STRUCTURE OF UTILITY-BASED EVALUATION APPROACHES

Existing utility-based transportation plan evaluation approaches are proven to be fallacious in providing information for decision making. Their weaknesses result primarily from erroneous uses of measurement scales and value transformation functions. To provide a valid basis for further development or improvement of utility-based evaluation approaches, an evaluation structure in the context of additive utilities is developed. Guidelines for the application of the evaluation structure are provided and are illustrated with a multidimensional evaluation problem.

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  American Society of Civil Engineers

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• Authors:
  • Lin, F
  • Hoel, L A
• Publication Date: 1977-3

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 307-320
• Serial:
  • Journal of Transportation Engineering
  • Volume: 103
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0733-947X
  • Serial URL: https://ascelibrary.org/journal/jtepbs

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: City planning; Evaluation; Guidelines; Management; Transportation; Transportation planning; Utility theory
• Old TRIS Terms: Utility; Utility-based transportation
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00156348
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 13 1977 12:00AM