Sustainability Indicator Selection by a Novel Triangular Intuitionistic Fuzzy Decision-Making Approach in Highway Construction Projects

Hassan Hashemi, Parviz Ghoddousi and Farnad Nasirzadeh
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Hassan Hashemi: School of Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 16765-163, Narmak, Tehran 1684613114, Iran
Parviz Ghoddousi: School of Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 16765-163, Narmak, Tehran 1684613114, Iran
Farnad Nasirzadeh: School of Architecture and Built Environment, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3220, Australia

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 3, 1-25

Abstract: The construction industry has been criticized as being a non-sustainable industry that requires effective tools to monitor and improve its sustainability performance. The multiplicity of indicators of the three pillars of sustainability—economic, social, and environmental—complicates construction sustainability assessments for project managers. Therefore, prioritizing and selecting appropriate sustainability indicators (SIs) is essential prior to conducting a construction sustainability assessment. The main purpose of this research is to select the most appropriate set of SIs to address all three pillars of highway sustainability by a new group decision-making approach. The proposed approach accounts for risk attitudes of experts and entropy measures under a triangular intuitionistic fuzzy (TIF) environment, to handle the inherent uncertainty and vagueness that is present throughout the evaluation process. Furthermore, new separation measures and ranking scores are introduced to distinguish the preference order of SIs. Eventually, the approach is implemented in a case study of highway construction projects and the applicability of the approach is examined. To investigate the stability and validity of computational results, a sensitivity analysis is carried out and a comparison is made between the obtained ranking outcomes and the traditional decision-making methods.

Keywords: sustainable highway construction; sustainability indicators; triangular intuitionistic fuzzy; multi-criteria decision-making; entropy measure; risk attitudes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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