Enhancing Sustainable Assessment of Electric Vehicles: A Comparative Study of the TOPSIS Technique with Interval Numbers for Uncertainty Management

The subject of electric vehicles (EVs) is constantly relevant from the perspective of climate change and sustainability. Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) methods can be successfully used to evaluate models of such vehicles. In many cases, the MCDA methods are modified to account for uncertain...

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Veröffentlicht in:Energies (Basel) Jg. 16; H. 18; S. 6652
Hauptverfasser: Kaczyńska, Aleksandra, Sulikowski, Piotr, Wątróbski, Jarosław, Sałabun, Wojciech
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Basel MDPI AG 01.09.2023
Schlagworte:
Automobiles, Electric
Climatic changes
Decision making
Electric vehicles
Energy consumption
intervals
MCDA
Methods
Popularity
Statistics
Sustainability
TOPSIS
uncertain data
Poland
Iran
Serbia
Germany
ISSN:1996-1073, 1996-1073
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Zusammenfassung:The subject of electric vehicles (EVs) is constantly relevant from the perspective of climate change and sustainability. Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) methods can be successfully used to evaluate models of such vehicles. In many cases, the MCDA methods are modified to account for uncertainty in the data. There are many ways to express uncertainty, including more advanced ones, such as fuzzy sets, for example, but expressing attributes in terms of interval numbers remains a popular method because it is an easy-to-implement and easy-to-understand technique. This study focuses on interval extensions of the TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) method. It aims to compare the most popular extension proposed by Jahanshahloo and the proposed new modification, which returns the result in an interval form. Certain inconsistencies of the Jahanshahloo extension are discussed, and it is explained how the new extension avoids them. Both extensions are applied to an EV evaluation problem taken from the literature as an example for sustainable assessment. The results are then analyzed, and the question of whether the input data of the interval should receive an evaluation in the form of interval results is addressed.
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ISSN:1996-1073
1996-1073
DOI:10.3390/en16186652