scholarly journals An Integrated Importance-Performance Analysis and Modified Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach to Sustainable City Assessment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Say Wah Lee ◽  
Ke Xue
Keyword(s):  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Importance Rating ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Abstract Sustainable urban development has been a popular subject in urban studies and related disciplines. Owing to the challenges faced by cities worldwide to accommodate the growing urban populations, it is becoming ever more important for innovative research on sustainable urban development to be performed to help cities achieve sustainability. This study develops and tests an integrated approach to sustainable city assessment, which is a combination of importance-performance analysis (IPA) and modified analytic hierarchy process (AHP). Questionnaires designed following the IPA concept were distributed to residents of three cities. The importance scores from the collected data were factorized and the relative scores of the factors were then converted into pairwise comparisons using a formula developed in this study. The derived criteria weights were applied to the performance scores to evaluate the cities’ relative overall sustainability performance. This approach replaces the AHP’s 1–9 scale with the IPA’s importance rating scale, which is a Likert scale, in the questionnaire. Based on the findings, implications and future research suggestions were provided.

scholarly journals Mapping of GIS-Land Use Suitability in the Rural–Urban Continuum between Ar Riyadh and Al Kharj Cities, KSA Based on the Integrating GIS Multi Criteria Decision Analysis and Analytic Hierarchy Process

Environments ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Ashraf Abd El Karim ◽  
Haya M. Alogayell ◽  
Ibtesam I. Alkadi ◽  
Ismail Youssef
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Decision Analysis ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Land Use Suitability ◽  
Hierarchy Process

The management of land use in big cities and capitals and the surrounding adjacent urban aggregates is still of major importance in the field of urban development, especially in cities with populations of millions and various types of land uses and economic activities. The rural–urban continuum between the cities of Ar Riyadh and Al Kharj suffers from an unclear general land use trend, due to urban expansion at the expense of the agriculture lands, the imbalance of the population compound, the deterioration of the urban fabric, lack and poor distribution of services, and the dominance of industrial land use at the expense of other uses. These factors have led to an increase in environmental changes and loss of the environmental and ecological characteristics of this area between Ar Riyadh and Al Kharj. The present study aims at evaluating the land use suitability for urban development in the rural–urban continuum between Ar Riyadh and Al Kharj cities. This is achieved by using the GIS-based Multi Criteria decision Analysis (GIS-MCDA) on twelve various economic, environmental, urban, and law criteria. The weights of criteria were determined using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method. The results of the spatial suitability map of the land use for sustainable urban development revealed that there are five categories of spatial suitability ranging in suitability from 32% to 86%. The recommended areas for sustainable urban development are those with a spatial suitability upwards of 70% in the rural–urban continuum corridor between Ar Riyadh and Al Kharj cities. The sustainable development in this corridor can be achieved by executing high priority projects that ensure and support the urban sustainable development plan through establishing four local urban development centers and upgrading four current villages to rural communities, aiming at strengthening the functional bonds between the rural communities and the local urban development centers. These projects will limit the sustainable urban development to specific areas without allowing random expansion, avoiding the urban conjugation of the two Ar Riyadh and Al Kharj cities through the connecting area between them.

Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process to Examine a Travel Destination for a Parent-Child Trip

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Han-Chen Huang ◽  
Cheng-I Hou ◽  
I-Ying Chang ◽  
Su-Ling Wu ◽  
Tsai-Li Chen
Keyword(s):  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Decision Criteria ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Travel Destination ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Parent Child

This article aims to determine married women's decision criteria for choosing a travel destination for a parent-child trip and find the relative weights of these decision criteria. A literature review was conducted to construct a preliminary structure of decision criteria for choosing a travel destination. Furthermore, two rounds of Delphi questionnaire surveys involving seven experts in the tourism industry were conducted through email correspondence. A analytic hierarchy process questionnaire survey was carried out upon the structure of decision criteria for choosing a travel destination. This survey found that the 18 key decision criteria for choosing a travel destination for a parent-child trip could be categorized into the following four categories: psychological needs, recreational resources, human and cultural elements, and travel costs. Based on the research results, this article proposes implications on planning a parent-child trip and suggestions for future research as a reference for relevant authorities and future researchers.

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