The transportation network design problem (NDP) is a high capital investment decision-making problem that inherently involves both subjective and objective uncertainties as well as multiple objectives. Goal programming is a practically useful approach with an explicit consideration of planners’ goal setting and priority structure among the multiple objectives. This paper describes the development of a hybrid goal programming (HGP) approach for modeling both subjective and objective uncertainties simultaneously in the NDP decision-making process. Planners’ subjective uncertainty regarding the linguistic setting of goals and priority structure is characterized as a set of fuzzy variables with nonlinear achievement and satisfaction functions, and the objective travel demand uncertainty is characterized as a set of random variables with predefined probability distributions. The HGP-NDP is formulated as a chance-constrained model in a bi-level programming framework and solved by a genetic algorithm procedure based on random simulation and fuzzy evaluation. The paper provides numerical examples and a real case study to demonstrate the features and applicability of the proposed HGP approach in solving the NDP under an uncertain environment.
Stochastic Network Design Problem with Fuzzy Goals
Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board ; 2399 , 1 ; 23-33
2013-01-01
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