Showing papers in "Urban Water Journal in 2002"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a multicriteria decision-aid method based on twenty seven criteria defined in partnership with a group of experts, which is used for the choice of best storm drainage management scenarios.
Abstract: The problem of the choice of best storm drainage management scenarios led to the development of a multicriteria decision-aid method based on twenty seven criteria defined in partnership with a group of experts. A validation study of the methodology showed its relevance on real cases but also that the large number of criteria hindered its use. An a-posteriori analysis of the results obtained by our methodology from three real projects was carried out in order to try to extract non-discriminating criteria, to identify those that could be removed, combined or re-formulated, and to try to understand the reasons why they failed to prove relevant. The work is based on two reduction methods: one empirical and one based on entropy calculations.
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TL;DR: A tool which can be applied to compare the propositions according to economic, ecological, functionality and maintenance criteria is presented in this article and the knowledge about the use of such a tool in an environment more complex than a laboratory was improved.
Abstract: Software packages developed for the design of urban storm drainage networks allow several solutions to be proposed for the same problem. It subsequently falls to the decision maker to choose which solution to adopt. The question is to compare the propositions according to economic, ecological, functionality and maintenance criteria. A tool which can be applied to this problem is presented in this article. This tool integrates multicriteria, fuzzy sets and the base of rules concepts. One of the principal difficulties stems from the fact that the evaluation of some of the criteria needed is not straightforward. Thus, a method which helps to evaluate one of the criteria (the global functioning of a storm drainage network) was defined. This method was first tested and validated on imaginary cases and subsequently applied to a real case: the restructuring of the urban storm drainage network of the city of Annequin. Then, on the basis of this experiment, the knowledge about the use of such a tool in an environm...
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