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A corridor selection for locating autonomous vehicles using an interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy AHP and TOPSIS method

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Autonomous vehicles (AVs) provide a new mobility option and have been becoming widespread around the world. They can be used not only as automobiles but also as public transport vehicles in the form of shuttles, buses and pods. One of the problem areas in implementing AVs as a public transport vehicle is to choose a suitable road for operating them. A fuzzy decision model combining analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) techniques with intuitionistic fuzzy sets is used to solve this problem. The results show that the BRT corridor is the most suitable option for operating AVs according to the decision criteria. Furthermore, operating AVs on a BRT corridor provides an unprecedented service provision approach.

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering, Izmir Bakircay University, 35665, Izmir, Turkey

    Onur Dogan

  2. Department of Industrial Engineering, Naval Academy, National Defense University, 34940, Istanbul, Turkey

    Muhammet Deveci

  3. ASAP Research Group, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, NG8 1BB, Nottingham, UK

    Muhammet Deveci

  4. Department of Management Engineering, Faculty of Management, University of Istanbul Technical, 34367, Maçka, Istanbul, Turkey

    Fatih Canıtez

  5. Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Management, University of Istanbul Technical, 34367, Maçka, Istanbul, Turkey

    Cengiz Kahraman

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Dogan, O., Deveci, M., Canıtez, F. et al. A corridor selection for locating autonomous vehicles using an interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy AHP and TOPSIS method. Soft Comput 24, 8937–8953 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-019-04421-5

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