Urban Sustainability Evaluation under the Modified TOPSIS Based on Grey Relational Analysis

Juan Tang, Hong-lin Zhu, Zhi Liu, Fu Jia and Xiao-xue Zheng
Additional contact information
Juan Tang: College of Management Engineering, Anhui Polytechnic University, Wuhu 241000, China
Hong-lin Zhu: School of Economics and Management, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, China
Zhi Liu: College of Management Engineering, Anhui Polytechnic University, Wuhu 241000, China
Fu Jia: York Management School, The University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK
Xiao-xue Zheng: College of Transportation and Civil Engineering, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China

IJERPH, 2019, vol. 16, issue 2, 1-21

Abstract: The evaluation of urban sustainability plays a crucial role in the process of the sustainable development of cities. To decrease subjectivity and attain a comprehensive evaluation, this paper develops an evaluation method using the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS). First, an evaluation index system including 39 indices and three categories (economic, social, and ecological development) is established; second, based on the index system, a modified TOPSIS, in which the entropy method is used to assign weights to each index according to its evaluation score and grey relation analysis is used to reduce the uncertainty existing in the process of evaluation, is presented to rank the sustainability level of cities. Finally, an example with the sustainability evaluation of 16 cities in the Anhui province of China is introduced to verify the effectiveness of the model.

Keywords: urban sustainability; evaluation index system; modified TOPSIS; grey relational analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (13)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/2/256/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/2/256/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:16:y:2019:i:2:p:256-:d:198516

Access Statistics for this article

IJERPH is currently edited by Ms. Jenna Liu

More articles in IJERPH from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().