Garage Location Selection for Public Transportation System in Istanbul
Read this article. The study covered uses various tools to determine the best location for bus garages to operate including maintenance and repair activities. Focus on Figure 1 in the Methodology section as it visually demonstrates the analytical process.
Application
ADSolver
Solving AD manually requires a lot of manual calculation. Thus an application called ADSolver was developed by authors. ADSolver was developed using AD algorithms on .net framework 3.5 and MSSQL 2008 Server Database. ADSolver includes additional properties to solve both Crisp and Fuzzy Axiomatic Design problems. If the weights of criteria are different or equal, ADSolver can be used to solve the problem. The pseudocode of ADSolver is given in Pseudocode 1.
Pseudocode 1 Program ADSolver.
Algorithms of ADSolver
In this program, the weighted fuzzy axiomatic design principles have been used because, after the meetings with experts in IETT, it is considered that all evaluation criteria do not have the same importance weights. When we solve the problem by ADSolver, the new garage locations are again Arnavutköy and Sultanbeyli.The application steps of ADSolver are given below.
Step 1. In the first step each alternative is added to ADSolver program on Alternatives Tab.
Step 2. In the second step both main and subcriteria are added to ADSolver program on Attribute Tab (Figure 6).
Figure 6 Entering the main and subcriteria.
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Figure 7 Entering the design ranges.
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Figure 8 Entering the system ranges.
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Figure 9 Solution of the ADSolver for unweighted AD problem.
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