Enhance Road Transport Sustainability Assessment to Address Climate Change Through MCDM-Based Entropy Objective Weighting 

Enhance Road Transport Sustainability Assessment to Address Climate Change Through MCDM-Based Entropy Objective Weighting | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Research Article Enhance Road Transport Sustainability Assessment to Address Climate Change Through MCDM-Based Entropy Objective Weighting ALAA ALDEN AL MOHAMED, Deoclécio Junior Cardoso da Silva This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4499216/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract Climate change, toxic greenhouse gas emissions, and air pollution are environmental challenges that our society needs to overcome. Transportation in general is one of the most significant sources of environmental pollution and it responsible of 27% of Air pollution in the environment, but Road transportation is one of the most adaptable forms of transportation and can link both domestically and internationally. In addition, it provides for a greener future with the passage of time, thanks to modern and advanced green industrial applications. However, the Road transportation system and its level of development vary from a country to another due to several criteria. This paper presents the Entropy-MCDM methods model to evaluate the Road transportation system in the countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Five MCDM techniques were applied to classify the sustainability performance of road transportation in OECD countries, and to compare them based on 12 sub-criteria. The results revealed that Japan is the top-ranked country among OECD countries, thanks to the policies and measures it adopts, from the initiation of advanced technological projects specifically for sustainable transportation systems, to offering all facilities and exemptions to encourage people to use sustainable transportation means. Germany and France follow Japan in the rankings. Finally, by comparing the classification results with other decision-making methods, it was found that help decision-makers evaluate and select the most appropriate solutions that fulfill several criteria simultaneously while considering their conflicting nature. MCDM Environmental Sustainability Transportation Entropy OECD Countries TOPSIS COPRAS VIKOR MOORA Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. 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