Multiple Criteria Analysis in Strategic Siting Problems

by Larichev, Oleg I.; Olson, David Louis

• ISBN13: 9780792373797
• ISBN10: 0792373790
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

The purpose of Multiple Criteria Analysis in Strategic Siting Problems is to demonstrate how multiple criteria can be used in analysis of facility location problems. The book begins with an overview, explains the internationally most popular multiple objective analysis methods, and demonstrates their applications on real problems. Siting problems reviewed include nuclear waste disposal in the U.S., solid waste management in Finland, pipeline location in India, and pipeline location in Russia. Methods covered are multiattribute utility analysis, analytic hierarchy process, the ELECTRE outranking method, and verbal decision analysis. The book concludes with a comparative review of methods. The book uses the multi-attribute, multi-party framework of Kunreuther to present the decision context, to include parties with interests in the decisions, as well as the sequence of project events. This perspective is valuable in identifying the qualitative backgrounds of siting problems that need to be considered. The book demonstrates the importance of multiple criteria in hazardous facility site selection. It also shows how each of the four methodologies covered operate, both in terms of demonstration problems worked with numbers, and how these methods have been applied in the real applications. The real applications were taken from refereed journal documentation, with the exception of Russian pipeline analysis decisions in which Professor Larichev participated. The book is recommended for those interested in decision-making involving problems with social import. This includes environmental aspects, as well as international aspects of decision making.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(15)
Facility Location Problems	1	(2)
Specific Features of 20th Century Location Problems	3	(2)
The Goal and Organization of the Book	5	(10)
Methods and Decision Processes: Descriptive and Normative	15	(40)
The Descriptive Studies	15	(6)
Sample Problem	21	(3)
Siting Project Analysis	24	(28)
Cost-Benefit Analysis	25	(2)
Multiattribute Utility Theory	27	(5)
Analytic Hierarchy Process	32	(8)
Outranking Method	40	(6)
Verbal Decision Analysis	46	(6)
Summary	52	(3)
High Level Waste Repository Selection	55	(18)
Multiattribute Utility Analysis	56	(10)
Objective Development	57	(3)
Risk Scenarios	60	(1)
Performance Measures	60	(2)
Multiattribute Utility Function	62	(2)
Utility Analysis Results	64	(2)
Sensitivity Analysis	66	(2)
Study Reviews	68	(1)
Results	68	(5)
Analysis of Alternative Methods to Dispose of Plutonium	73	(26)
Phase I Study	74	(4)
Phase II Study	78	(11)
Measures and Utilities	81	(7)
Multiple Attributes, Multiple Parties	88	(1)
Multiattribute Utility Analysis	89	(1)
Monte Carlo Simulation	90	(5)
Reactor Options	91	(2)
Vitrification Options	93	(1)
Borehole Options	94	(1)
Insights from Sensitivity Analysis Methods	94	(1)
Conclusions	95	(4)
Project Selection and Control	99	(12)
Petroleum Pipeline Project Analysis	99	(2)
Multiple Attributes, Multiple Parties	100	(1)
Water Resource Planning	101	(7)
Chaliyar River Basin Planning	103	(1)
Multiple Attributes, Multiple Parties	104	(1)
Hierarchy	105	(1)
Subjective Pairwise Comparisons	106	(2)
Summary	108	(3)
Solid Waste Management System Selection	111	(30)
Uusimaa Region Study	112	(11)
Criteria Development	112	(1)
Weights	113	(1)
Measures	114	(2)
Multiple Attributes, Multiple Actors	116	(1)
ELECTRE II Ranking	117	(6)
Sensitivity	123	(1)
Oulu Region Study	123	(8)
Objectives	125	(1)
Measures	126	(1)
Multiple Attributes, Multiple Actors	127	(2)
Weights and Parameters	129	(1)
ELECTRE Ranking	129	(2)
Sensitivity Analysis	131	(1)
Post-Study Success	131	(1)
Kirkkonummi Study	131	(5)
Generation of Alternatives	132	(1)
Criteria Selection	133	(1)
Multiple Attributes, Multiple Actors	133	(1)
Alternative Measures on Criteria	133	(1)
Multicriteria Analysis	134	(2)
Conclusions	136	(5)
Pipeline Location Decisions	141	(32)
Pipeline Route Selection in the Southern Soviet Union	143	(11)
Decision Problem	143	(1)
Alternatives	144	(1)
Conventional Practice	145	(3)
Special Permissions	148	(1)
Evaluation of Alternatives Over Criteria	148	(3)
Overall Analysis	151	(1)
Multiple Attributes, Multiple Actors	151	(2)
The Choice Process	153	(1)
Creation of a New Version and Final Choice	153	(1)
Gas Pipeline Route Selection in Northern Siberia	154	(11)
Alternatives	155	(1)
Criteria	155	(2)
Evaluation of Alternatives by Criteria	157	(2)
Multiple Attributes, Multiple Actors	159	(2)
The Choice Process	161	(2)
Development of a New Option	163	(2)
Oil Pipeline Route Selection in Alaska, U.S.	165	(5)
The Alternatives	166	(1)
Multiple Attributes, Multiple Actors	167	(1)
Criteria and Evaluation	167	(2)
The Choice Process	169	(1)
Summary	170	(3)
Problems and Tools	173	(28)
Specific Features of Multicriteria Location Selection as Decision Problems	174	(1)
The Different Paradigms in Decision Making	175	(1)
Comparison of Methods in Laboratory Experiments	176	(5)
Comparison on Practical Tasks	181	(8)
MAUT and Outranking Approaches	182	(1)
Comparison of MAUT and VDA	183	(4)
Institutional Criteria	187	(1)
Personal Criteria	188	(1)
Common Stage for All Approaches: Systems Analysis	189	(1)
Proponents and Opponents	190	(3)
Maut	190	(1)
AHP	191	(1)
Outranking Methods	192	(1)
VDA	193	(1)
Primary Requirements of a Normative Method	193	(3)
Completeness of Relations over Alternatives	194	(1)
Transitivity and Sensitivity to Human Error	194	(2)
Conclusion	196	(5)
Support to the Multiattribute Decision Process	201	(10)
The Mixture of Individual and Collective Choice in Multicriteria Location Decisions	202	(3)
The Role of Experts in Siting Decisions	205	(1)
Generating Improved Alternatives	206	(1)
Existing Multiattribute Tools for Choices	207	(1)
Technical Support Available for Location Decisions	208	(1)
Summary	208	(3)
Author Index	211	(4)
Subject Index	215