The identification and ranking of the indicators affecting the routing and scheduling of sustainable urban transportation using multi-criteria decisions

The present study was carried out in order to evaluate and rank the indicators of urban transport sustainability using descriptive-analytical methodology and Delphi methods, best-worst and best priority. In order to achieve the indicators of sustainable transportation in three economic, social and environmental dimensions, the criteria were ranked based on library studies, and the opinion of experts, so as to finalize the criteria of great importance on the research issue to enter the Delphi method, and be used as the evaluation criteria to save time and the number of trips. The final criteria were entered into the weighting and ranking process using the best-worst method and the best priority method. The results of the two methods of best-worst and best priority were compared using statistical methods.Considering that the ranking of the criteria was the same in both methods and the Spearman correlation coefficient was +1, so there is a strong correlation between the criteria.Also, the Pearson correlation coefficient between weights was 0.989 and the significance level was zero, which demonstrate a strong relationship between variables. Therefore, ranking and weighting obtained from the two methods were accepted.