Comprehensive Assessment on Sustainable Development of Highway Transportation Capacity Based on Entropy Weight and TOPSIS

Yancang Li, Lei Zhao and Juanjuan Suo
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Yancang Li: College of Civil Engineering, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan 056038, China
Lei Zhao: College of Civil Engineering, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan 056038, China
Juanjuan Suo: College of Civil Engineering, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan 056038, China

Sustainability, 2014, vol. 6, issue 7, 1-9

Abstract: With the rapid development of the national economy of China, an increasing need for transportation facilities is becoming a serious challenge that the existing traffic system has to meet. Thus, the highway transportation capacity development level assessment has important significance in theory and in practice. In order to overcome the current defects of stronger subjectivity and experience in common assessment methods, the entropy weight and the TOPSIS method were introduced and employed to the comprehensive assessment of highway transportation capacity development. Shannon information entropy was applied to determine the weight value of each index in the comprehensive assessment model. After determining the index weight, the result of comprehensive assessment was obtained through the TOPSIS method. Finally, the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method were shown by application in practice.

Keywords: highway transportation capacity development; Shannon information entropy; TOPSIS; comprehensive assessment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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