Pipelines 2020
Multi-Criteria Decision Making for Multi-Purpose Utility Tunnel Location Selection
Publication: Pipelines 2020
ABSTRACT
Repeated excavations of buried utilities cause road congestion, maintenance conflicts, and subsequently increase social costs. An alternative of burying utilities is hosting them in a multi-purpose utility tunnel (MUT). MUTs reduce the excavation needs and provide easy access for all year-round inspection and maintenance for utilities. MUT planning is a key factor of urban underground space planning. Previous research focused on MUT technologies; however, few papers focused on MUT planning. Location selection for MUTs is an important phase for MUT planning and it is complicated because it depends on several criteria. This paper provides a general method for MUT location selection at different urban scales using geographic information system (GIS) and multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) for the selection of potential MUT locations. The weights of the criteria are calculated using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method. A case study is used to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed method.
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Pipelines 2020
Pages: 339 - 349
Editors: J. Felipe Pulido, OBG, Part of Ramboll and Mark Poppe, Brown and Caldwell
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-8319-0
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© 2020 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Aug 6, 2020
Published in print: Aug 6, 2020
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