A Fuzzy AHP-TOPSIS Approach for Selecting the Multimodal Freight Transportation Routes

Multimodal transportation route selection strategy has become an important component in the main logistics and transportation. Route selection relies upon decision-based on real industry data and expert judgments. This paper proposes Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Fuzzy Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) for prioritizing effectively the multimodal transportation routes to improve logistics system performance by constructing the possible routes considering transport cost, time, risk, and quality factors. Fuzzy AHP is used to determine weights for evaluation criteria and Fuzzy TOPSIS is used to aid the ranking of possible route alternatives. The empirical case study of coal manufacturing is conducted to illustrate a proposed methodology that enables to provide a more accurate, practical, and systematic decision support tool.

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