Multicriteria method for choice of a site: The case of an airport in nouveau Quebec

The important aerial traffic demand involves the construction of new airports. The site selection for these airports involves many incommensurable and conflicting objectives: to minimize the construction and total cost, to minimize the noise for the nearest community, to minimize the site access time, to have an adequate capacity to satisfy the demand,.... Many algorithms have been developed and proposed to solve the site selection problem. After that the authors will present a brief review of diverse approaches, they develop a method based on the fixation of goals according to each attribute. The notion of generalized criterion introduced in the PROMETHEE outranking method will be used. This concept will lead the decision maker to build a satisfaction function for every observed deviation from the fixed goals. This method will be used as a technique to select a site for the construction of an airport in the new Quebec.