| Article ID: | iaor20023314 |
| Country: | Japan |
| Volume: | 45 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 1 |
| End Page Number: | 12 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2002 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan |
| Authors: | Tamura Hiroyuki, Fujita Shinichi |
| Keywords: | location, decision theory: multiple criteria, analytic hierarchy process |
In this paper, a municipal decision support methodology is proposed to evaluate the location of refuse incineration plant to dispose of municipal waste using the model of descriptive extension of Analytic Hierarchy Process, called D-AHP. In this model, the rank reversal phenomena are legitimately observed and explanatory. The alternative sites of the refuse incineration plant are located in a hypothetical city, and the alternatives are evaluated. The results of the evaluation show that D-AHP is useful for the case when the number of alternatives such as the number of sites of the refuse incineration plant may change.