A Systematic Review of Analytic Hierarchy Process Applications to Solve Transportation Problems: From 2003 to 2022

Abstract

Transportation improvements affect technological and socio-economic development, and several scholars have researched various transportation problems. The current study aims to illustrate a thorough review of those transport problems, where the Analytic Hierarchic Process (AHP) is used for enumerating the related criteria and alternatives. A systematic review methodology, the PRISMA protocol, is applied in the review process. The contribution of this work is highlighted along with the extensions of the AHP improving decision-making support. To this end, current research demonstrates the relevant results of 58 papers published from 2003 to 2019. The results indicated that most researchers applied the conventional AHP method to deal with transportation issues, while the most critical issue was public transport, followed by logistics problems. On top of that, TOPSIS was integrated with AHP more than other MCDM methods when dealing with multi-criteria transportation problems. Moreover, the 'Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice' journal achieved first place by publishing ten papers on the topic, and the highest number of articles was published in 2018. The results are discussed adequately, and in the conclusion, policy implications are presented.