Establishment of Evaluation and Decision Making Model for Cargo Transportation System in Indonesia

It is difficult to make decision from various alternatives, when each of which has several factors with many aspects of relationship. Difficulty arises when complication due to ambiguity and close distinction among the identified aspects exists. Such circumstances occur in designing an engineering system, particularly at conceptual design stage. Thus, in order to be able to cope with the aspects that are combined with experience and knowledge of engineer and expert, the authors try to establish a method for making decision based on multi-criteria analysis. As an example, an evaluation model for inter-city cargo transportation in Indonesia is developed.