CROSS-SECTORAL CONCEPTUALIZATION OF JOB ACCESSIBILITY PROJECTS: A SPATIAL MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM APPLICATION

Barriers to information availability and differences in problem conceptualization in implementing job accessibility projects for low-income workers were identified by means of interviews of data managers and policy makers in the sectors of transportation, housing and economic development. The objective was to identify their main priorities and concerns when making decisions about access by low-skilled workers to jobs. This paper describes the decision support aspect of a Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS), which was developed as a response to these concerns. The SDSS has two parts: a Geographic Information System (GIS) and a Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) tool using the well-known Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). The main objective of the AHP application reported in the paper focuses on identifying differences in solution conceptualization to job accessibility alternatives in a particular economically depressed region of the Chicago metropolitan area.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at the North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association International, Philadelphia, November 2003.
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Illinois, Chicago

  Urban Transportation Center, 412 South Peoria Street, Suite 340
  Chicago, IL  United States  60607
• Authors:
  • Ortega, J F
  • Thakuriah, Piyushimita
• Publication Date: 2003-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 22 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Analytic hierarchy process; Decision making; Decision support systems; Geographic information systems; Jobs; Low income groups; Multiple criteria decision making; Transportation
• Geographic Terms: Chicago Metropolitan Area
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00975800
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 1 2004 12:00AM