A. Farkas A Comparison of MCDA Techniques TOPSIS and MAROM in Evaluating Bus Alternative-fuel Modes

There are a great number of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) methods used in practice. Most of them have been designed to evaluate alternatives on one particular scale of measurement only. But the alternatives are characterized by many attributes which, usually, correspond to different types of measurement scale. In this paper such a method called MAROM is compared to a classical MCDA procedure called TOPSIS. The problem of alternative-fuel modes of buses used for public transportation in urban areas is considered. The ranking and the evaluation procedures of the alternative-fuel modes are shown for an empirical study taken from the literature. Comparison of the two methods is made on the results of the numerical computations. The formal description of the method MAROM is also presented in detail.