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Exploring public transport sustainability with neutrosophic logic

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Sustainable transportation is a significant component of overall sustainable development. Increasingly, evaluation and decision-making with respect to major complex projects (for example, transportation and land use projects), a multiple attribute perspective is taken. This paper illustrates a multiple attribute decision-making approach for selecting sustainable public transportation systems under uncertainty, that is, with partial or incomplete information represented by single-valued neutrosophic sets (SVNSs). A SVNS is a generalization of a classical set, a fuzzy set, and an intuitionistic fuzzy set. Here, SVNSs and SVNS connectives are illustrated in the context of a ‘Public Transit Sustainable Mobility Analysis Tool’ (PTSMAT) which involves a composite (multiple attribute) sustainability index. A case study of PTSMAT is provided for the UBC Corridor study in Vancouver, Canada. As expected, similar results are obtained to the original study, though the neutrosophic formalism opens a wide range of possibilities for recognition of uncertainty in sustainability assessment.

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  • Phillip Smith, 2019. "Exploring public transport sustainability with neutrosophic logic," Transportation Planning and Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(3), pages 257-273, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:transp:v:42:y:2019:i:3:p:257-273
    DOI: 10.1080/03081060.2019.1576383
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    1. Roger-Monzó, Vanessa & Castelló-Sirvent, Fernando & Teixidó, Eduard Farran, 2023. "Sustainability, fuzzy-set and the hall of fame: Evolving research agenda," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 188(C).
    2. Mª del Carmen Olmos-Gómez & Ligia Isabel Estrada-Vidal & Francisca Ruiz-Garzón & Rafael López-Cordero & Laila Mohamed-Mohand, 2019. "Making Future Teachers More Aware of Issues Related to Sustainability: An Assessment of Best Practices," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(24), pages 1-21, December.

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