2015-Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit
SIPS 2015 Volume 11: Recycling & Environmental
| Editors: | Kongoli F, Havlik T, Pagnanelli F |
| Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
| Publication Year: | 2015 |
| Pages: | 410 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-1-987820-34-8 |
| ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
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Application of Fuzzy Logic in the Humanistic Evaluation of Urban Transportation Projects
Marcus Vinicius Quintella Cury1;1GETULIO VARGAS FOUNDATION, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
Type of Paper: Regular
Id Paper: 528
Topic: 10
Abstract:
This paper proposes an indicator to assist the evaluation of urban transportation projects, called the Humanistic Evaluation Index (HEI). This index assigns a grade between 0 and 1 to alternative urban transportation projects, which can be to add a humanistic dimension to the decision making process related to the implementation of these projects. The development of the HEI is based on a heuristic model, which was built to take into account imprecise data – such as weather conditions; sound and visual pollution; human welfare; safety; speed and other factors – that is especially important in the assessment of the impact of transportation projects on people and on the environment. The model is capable of dealing with two types of input variables: quantitative, expressed in some unit of measurement, and qualitative, subjectively defined. The latter is obtained from experts in transportation, environmentalists and prospective project end-users. The neuro-fuzzy methodology was employed in the development of the HEI because it brings together the fuzzy logic and artificial neural networks approaches. It is thus appropriate for dealing with complex problems, in which imprecision, vagueness and ill-defined concepts make the use of conventional techniques hopeless.