The Contribution of MCDM to SUMP: The Case of Spanish Cities during 2006–2021

Salvador Garcia-Ayllon, Eloy Hontoria and Nolberto Munier
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Salvador Garcia-Ayllon: Department of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Cartagena, Paseo Alfonso XIII, 52, 30203 Cartagena, Spain
Eloy Hontoria: Department of Business Economics, Technical University of Cartagena, Calle Real, 3, 30201 Cartagena, Spain
Nolberto Munier: INGENIO (UPV), Sir John A. Mc Donald Boulevard, Kingston, ON KTM 1A3, Canada

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 19, issue 1, 1-21

Abstract: Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP) are increasingly popular planning tools in cities with environmental issues where numerous actions are usually proposed to reduce pollution from urban transport. However, the diagnosis and implementation of these processes requires broad consensus from all stakeholders and the ability to fit them into urban planning in such a way that it allows the proposals to become realistic actions. In this study, a review of the sustainable urban mobility plans of 47 cities in Spain during the last 15 years has been carried out, analyzing both the diagnosis and proposal of solutions and their subsequent implementation. From the results obtained, a new framework based on a structured hybrid methodology is proposed to aid decision-making for the evaluation of alternatives in the implementation of proposals in SUMP. This hybrid methodology considers experts’ and stakeholders’ opinion and applies two different multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) methods in different phases to present two rankings of best alternatives. From that experience, an analysis based on the MCDM methods called ‘Sequential Interactive Modelling for Urban Systems (SIMUS)’ and weighted sum method (WSM) was applied to a case study of the city of Cartagena, a southeastern middle-size city in Spain. This analytic proposal has been transferred to the practical field in the SUMP of Cartagena, the first instrument of this nature developed after COVID-19 in Spain for a relevant city. The results show how this framework, based on a hybrid methodology, allows the development of complex decision mapping processes using these instruments without obviating the need to generate planning tools that can be transferred from the theoretical framework of urban reality.

Keywords: SUMP; urban mobility; city planning; hybrid methodology; multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) methods; SIMUS; weighted sum method (WSM) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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