An application of fuzzy TOPSIS for identifying and analyzing black spots suburban areas

Abstract: Nowadays, traffic safety is one of the primary principles of traffic engineering and transportation planning. Road accidents have been major problems that cause human losses, social and economic challenges. The first step to improve road traffic safety is to identify black spots, which preserve high potential of road accidents. Therefore, identifying, analyzing, prioritizing and refining these places play important role in improving transportation safety. This paper applies fuzzy Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal (TOPSIS) for ordering different black spots for a case study of highway between two cities of Qazvin and Saveh, Iran. The study performs the ranking based on two categories of tangent distance and horizontal curve. The ranking is performed according to Roadway width, Shoulder width, Traffic volume, Percentage of vehicle, Load and utility, Network access, The number of horizontal curves and Equivalent Property Damage Only (EPDO). The results are compared with frequencies of incidents and analyzed.

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 Qazvini, A., Javanshir, H & Seyedhosseni, S. (2016). An application of fuzzy TOPSIS for identifying and analyzing black spots suburban areas.Management Science Letters , 6(8), 561-568.

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