A Sustainable Evaluation of Rural Road Construction Projects Using Fuzzy Multiple Attribute Decision Making Method (FMADM)
Keywords:
Rural road prioritization, FMADM and Sustainable Development (SD)Abstract
United Nations has established sustainable development goals that must create a balance between economy, society and environment. Thailand has adopted this principle as part of the 20-year national strategy. The department of rural roads is one of the agencies that apply this principle to develop and maintain a rural road network. Due to a limited budget, it impossible to construct and maintain all segment of all the rural road networks in Thailand. This research resented the application of Fuzzy Multiple Attribute Decision Making Method (FMADM). Main factors considered are society, economy and environment as well as the minor factors were used in the process. In addition, the economic evaluation was also conducted to priorities several rural road construction projects in Bueng Kan (BK) city, Thailand and compare to the analysis result of FMADM. It was found that the most suitable construction project is rural road BK. 3013 with the composite score of 0.8219 and the ranking results from both methods are similar.
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