DSS for urban infrastructure mangement, parking garages case study

Problems of the urban infrastructure management could be found in the lack of systemic and comprehensive approach in problem solving at strategic level, as well as lack of data and procedures at operative level. Therefore, a generic model of a Decision Support System (DSS) for urban infrastructure management is proposed, which includes three decision and management levels (operative, tactical and strategic). In this paper the application of the DSS model is focused on the improvement of the part of urban infrastructure system that is parking garages. A case study deals with big parking garages project for a large urban area and how the DSS can be efficiently used for solving location and sub-project ranking problems, as well as for definition of an investment strategy. Two multicriteria models, AHP and PROMETHHE, in a combination with 0-1 programming are used. The main advantage of an application of multicriteria analysis is that all stakeholders could be objectively included into decision process.