Lad, V H; Patel, D A; Chauhan, K A and Patel, K A (2024) Prioritisation of bridge for improving its resilience using multi-criteria decision-making techniques. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 31(7), pp. 2952-2976. ISSN 0969-9988
Abstract
Purpose: The work on bridge resilience assessment includes quantitative and qualitative approaches to compare the multiple bridges based on their resilience. But still, the bridge resilience obtained by these assessment approaches is inefficient when prioritising multiple bridges to improve their resilience. Therefore, this study aims to develop a methodology for prioritising the bridges to improve their resilience. Design/methodology/approach: The research methodology follows three sequential phases. In the first phase, criteria importance through intercriteria correlation (CRITIC) technique is used to compute the criteria weights. The criteria considered are age, area, design high flood level, finish road level FRL and resilience index of bridges. While 12 river-crossing bridges maintained by one bridge owner are considered as alternatives. Then, in the second phase, the prioritisation of each bridge is evaluated using five techniques, including technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution, VIKOR (in Serbian, Visekriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje), additive ratio assessment, complex proportional assessment and multi-objective optimisation method by ratio analysis. Finally, in the third phase, the results of all five techniques are integrated using CRITIC and the weighted sum method. Findings: The result of the study enables bridge owners to deal with the particular bridge that requires resilience improvement. The study concluded that it is not enough to consider only the bridge resilience index to improve its resilience. The prioritisation exercise should consider various other criteria that are not preferred during the bridge resilience assessment process. Originality/value: The proposed methodology is a novel framework based on the existing multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques for contributing knowledge in the domain of bridge resilience management. It can efficiently overcome the pitfall of decision-making when two bridges have the same resilience index score.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | aras; bridge; copras; critic; mcdm; moora; prioritisation; resilience; topsis; vikor; waspas; wpm; wsm |
| Index terms: | multi-criteria decision-making, decision-making, methodology, preference, exercise, prioritizing, ratio analysis, topsis, owner, qualitative approach, research methodology, multi-objective optimization |
| Subjects: | research methods, decision-making and reasoning, algorithms, decision-making and optimization, sociology, decision analysis, health behaviours and lifestyles, research design and methodology, economic analysis |
| Topics: | Business Strategy, Health and Safety, Research Practice, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Digital Applications |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCTA |
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