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http://dx.doi.org/10.12652/Ksce.2018.38.1.0103

An AHP Application to Find the Most Suitable Type of Organizational Formation and Scope of Work for the Upcoming Seoul MTA  

Bang, Peter Chulho (ex-FHWA, USDOT)
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KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research / v.38, no.1, 2018 , pp. 103-112 More about this Journal
Abstract
To improve current transportation service, a new Seoul Metropolitan Transportation Administration (Seoul MTA), backed by Korean central government, is on the way of being established. This paper tries to answer questions such as 'What is the best type of organizational formation of the upcoming institute to deliver better, seamless transportation service?' and 'What is the most suitable scope of work of the upcoming institute to achieve the goal?' A group decision making process, a kind of AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) was adopted to measure the experts' preferences of alternatives in quantitative scale measurement. To evaluate the alternatives, five evaluation criteria were selected. Among them, it is revealed that 'Improvement of the transportation service' and 'Political & Administrative power to make it happen' are the two most important evaluation criteria over what types or operating costs of the administrations are. When the five evaluation criteria are applied onto the group of alternatives, it yields that a stand-alone organization, which should be independent from upper-level government body, should have an integrated and sole authority on the area-wide transportation system management.
Keywords
Transportation policy evaluation; Seoul MTA; MPO; Analytic hierarchy process(AHP); Group decision making;
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