General Application of Multiple Criteria Decision Making Methods for Finding the Optimal Solution in City Logistics

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to familiarize the reader with the general application of MCDM methods on a specific example of City Logistics in order to find the optimal solution for operation of the territory. In its introductory part, methods used for quantitative evaluation of variant solutions are briefly described, and then the so-called Forces Decision Matrix Method (FDMM) including the determination of criteria weights using pairwise comparison of variants according to individual criteria on the specific example is applied. In the final part of the paper, the advantages and disadvantages of using this method for more complex tasks with multiple variant solutions based on the results of the practical example are evaluated and the so-called Saaty’s method based on the quantitative pair-wise comparison to partially eliminate differences in the mutual evaluation of weights and criteria is mentioned.

Keywords

• city logistics
• fdmm
• multi-criteria analysis
• criterion weight
• variant solutions