Applying Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Technique to Taxi Strategic Planning Development (Case Study: Ahvaz Metropolis)

Each year, about 60% of the construction budgets of metropolises are allocated to transformation and traffic domains for developing physical infrastructures and facilities such as rapid transit lines, passages and streets, bridges, overpasses and underpasses for pedestrian crossing, highway Interchange to remove the direct impacts of vehicle, bicycle and pedestrian paths, public transport fleet, parks, terminals, stations, vertical and horizontal lining for passing pedestrians, intelligent traffic management systems, vertical and horizontal guides signs and panels , parking lots, etc. those budgets are mainly paid by people from toll payment. For having appropriate planning, with regard to strengths and weaknesses of internal environments, opportunities and threats dominating the external environment of municipalities, proper spending in required and prioritized places, preventing subjective actions of managers and individual-centered views, and reinforcing plan-oriented approaches, long-term strategic planning seems necessary. As a result, operationalizing strategies of developing this type of public transportation with the prioritization as: Diversification Strategy (ST) as the first priority;: Revision Strategy (WO) as the second priority;: offensive strategy (SO) as the third priority; and: Defensive Strategy (WT) as the fourth priority should be at the top of authorities’ executive programs for obtaining the development of taxi in Ahvaz Metropolis.