Assessment of the Waterway Variant at the Design Stage in Multiple-criteria Approach

Abstract

The assessment of navigational safety for various variants of waterways, due to the multiplicity of entities involved in the decision-making process, is a complex and difficult task. Multiple methodologies can be used to select and arrange projects. A review of the literature leads to the conclusion that the CBA (Cost Benefit Analysis) and MCDA (Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Analysis) methodologies are most often used. The article presents, the general characteristics of the proposed multi-criteria methodology assessment of waterway at the design stage.

Keywords

• waterway
• assessment of the waterway variant
• navigational safety assessment
• multi-criteria decision analysis (mcda)
• cost-benefit analysis (cba)
• variants of waterways
• fast time simulation (fts)
• real time simulation (rts)