TY - JOUR
T1 - Prioritizing management issues of moving dangerous goods by air transport
AU - Chang, Yu Hern
AU - Yeh, Chung Hsing
AU - Liu, Yi Lin
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the National Science Council of Taiwan (Grant NSC94-2811-H-006-001). We are grateful to Taiwan's aviation safety and security experts who provided assistance in problem formulation and data collection. We also thank the Editor-in-Chief, and two anonymous referees for their valuable comments.
Copyright:
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PY - 2006/7
Y1 - 2006/7
N2 - This paper presents an expert survey-based approach for prioritizing management issues of dangerous goods transportation faced by air-transport-related sectors in Taiwan. A two-stage survey process is used to ask the experts to first identify and then evaluate the management issues. To develop effective-management priorities, these issues are evaluated in terms of their importance, urgency, achievability, and effectiveness, based on experts' comparative and absolute judgments. A pairwise comparison process is used to help the experts make comparative judgments, while a linguistic rating method is used for absolute judgments. To reflect the inherent imprecision involved in the survey process, experts' assessments are represented by triangular fuzzy numbers. To obtain an overall priority value, a fuzzy multiattribute decision-making method is used.
AB - This paper presents an expert survey-based approach for prioritizing management issues of dangerous goods transportation faced by air-transport-related sectors in Taiwan. A two-stage survey process is used to ask the experts to first identify and then evaluate the management issues. To develop effective-management priorities, these issues are evaluated in terms of their importance, urgency, achievability, and effectiveness, based on experts' comparative and absolute judgments. A pairwise comparison process is used to help the experts make comparative judgments, while a linguistic rating method is used for absolute judgments. To reflect the inherent imprecision involved in the survey process, experts' assessments are represented by triangular fuzzy numbers. To obtain an overall priority value, a fuzzy multiattribute decision-making method is used.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2006.01.007
DO - 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2006.01.007
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33646803480
VL - 12
SP - 191
EP - 196
JO - Journal of Air Transport Management
JF - Journal of Air Transport Management
SN - 0969-6997
IS - 4
ER -