Decision-making of compressed natural gas station siting for public transportation: Integration of multi-objective optimization, fuzzy evaluating, and radar charting

Shunxi Li, Bowen Su, David L. St-Pierre, Pang-Chieh Sui, Guofang Zhang and Jinsheng Xiao

Energy, 2017, vol. 140, issue P1, 11-17

Abstract: Application of compressed natural gas in public transportation has attracted environmental and social attentions worldwide for natural gas' low air pollutants emission, low cost, and availability. Constructing a suitable compressed natural gas network for public transportation in a city has thus become an important topic for the theory and practice of applying the compressed natural gas, which is considered as a key measure to solve the energy crisis and city congestion. The present paper proposed an integrated decision-making process of compressed natural gas siting for public transportation based on the method of multi-objective optimization, fuzzy evaluating, and radar charting. Multi-objective optimization is used to find the initial feasible solution under the city's requirement in economic, availability, safety and so on. Fuzzy evaluation then provides the criteria of decision-making. Radar charting presents a clear vision of all the candidate solutions for decision-making based on the different feature of the city condition. To illustrate the proposed process, the present paper takes the city of Wuhan, China as the case study.

Keywords: Compressed natural gas; Station siting; Public transportation; Decision making; Multi-objective optimization; Fuzzy evaluation; Radar chart (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2017.08.041

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