PMID- 17768038
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20081218
LR  - 20080630
IS  - 0956-053X (Print)
IS  - 0956-053X (Linking)
VI  - 28
IP  - 9
DP  - 2008
TI  - Transshipment site selection using the AHP and TOPSIS approaches under fuzzy 
      environment.
PG  - 1552-9
AB  - Site selection is an important issue in waste management. Selection of the 
      appropriate solid waste site requires consideration of multiple alternative 
      solutions and evaluation criteria because of system complexity. Evaluation 
      procedures involve several objectives, and it is often necessary to compromise 
      among possibly conflicting tangible and intangible factors. For these reasons, 
      multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) has been found to be a useful approach 
      to solve this kind of problem. Different MCDM models have been applied to solve 
      this problem. But most of them are basically mathematical and ignore qualitative 
      and often subjective considerations. It is easier for a decision-maker to 
      describe a value for an alternative by using linguistic terms. In the fuzzy-based 
      method, the rating of each alternative is described using linguistic terms, which 
      can also be expressed as triangular fuzzy numbers. Furthermore, there have not 
      been any studies focused on the site selection in waste management using both 
      fuzzy TOPSIS (technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution) and 
      AHP (analytical hierarchy process) techniques. In this paper, a fuzzy TOPSIS 
      based methodology is applied to solve the solid waste transshipment site 
      selection problem in Istanbul, Turkey. The criteria weights are calculated by 
      using the AHP.
FAU - Onut, Semih
AU  - Onut S
AD  - Yildiz Technical University, Mechanical Faculty, Department of Industrial 
      Engineering, Yildiz, Istanbul, Turkey. onut@yildiz.edu.tr
FAU - Soner, Selin
AU  - Soner S
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20070904
PL  - United States
TA  - Waste Manag
JT  - Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
JID - 9884362
SB  - IM
MH  - *Decision Making
MH  - *Fuzzy Logic
MH  - Models, Theoretical
MH  - *Refuse Disposal
MH  - Transportation
MH  - Turkey
MH  - Waste Management/*methods
EDAT- 2007/09/05 09:00
MHDA- 2008/12/19 09:00
CRDT- 2007/09/05 09:00
PHST- 2006/08/10 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2007/04/17 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2007/05/15 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2007/09/05 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/12/19 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2007/09/05 09:00 [entrez]
AID - S0956-053X(07)00209-7 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.wasman.2007.05.019 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Waste Manag. 2008;28(9):1552-9. doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2007.05.019. Epub 2007 Sep 
      4.