APPLICATION OF THE MULTI ATTRIBUTE UTILITY TECHNIQUE WITH ITS FOR SUSTAINABILITY EVALUATION OF EMERGING METROPOLITAN CITY OF NAGPUR

There are number of limitations for evaluating sustainability of any transportation system. Huge research work and studies has been carried regarding sustainable transportation and sustainability indicators. But the specific decision making methodologies for sustainability evaluation aligned with sustainability of transportation system is missing at present. Hence it is required to develop the framework for assessment of sustainability in terms of performance measures considering the prefixed goals for the purpose of planning. As a part of Multi Criteria Decision Making process, the Multi Attribute Utility Technique based methodology is adopted as the most suitable method. In this paper the sustainability index evaluation is based on combination of individual performance measures is carried out using Multi Attribute Utility Technique based methodology for emerging metropolitan city of Nagpur. The results obtained can be conveniently used in sustainability evaluation process for any corridor. It can also be utilized for comparing the results obtained through the sustainability evaluation for different scenarios.