Risk Evaluation of Logistics Park Projects’ Lifecycle during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Publication: Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Volume 149, Issue 1
Abstract
Logistics parks served as critical logistics facilities during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Constructing these large-scale projects including their subsequent operations involved unusual risk factors that required comprehensive risk evaluations. Therefore, it is vital to examine the potential risk factors across the entire life cycle of these projects in accordance with the complexity of these large-scale logistics park projects (LLPPs) during the pandemic. This study proposes a new risk analysis model that evaluates a comprehensive list of risk factors based on the failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA). The hesitant uncertain linguistic Z-numbers (HULZNs) and fuzzy C-means (FCM) clustering algorithm are incorporated into the FMEA model to evaluate the risk. The practicability of the model was assessed in a case study. The findings identified and distinguished risk factors based on their levels of influences and priorities in dealing with uncertainties during the decision-making process in LLPPs. The FMEA model’s new methodological assessment also contributes to the efficient risk evaluation process through its more reliable and reasonable failure mode risk clustering, particularly for complex group decision-making environments during the pandemic.
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All data, models, and code generated or used during the study appear in the published article.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the anonymous referees and Editor-in-chief very much for their valuable comments and suggestion. This work was partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 72101141 and 72001112).
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