An Integrated Multi Criteria Decision Making Model for Evaluating Park-and-Ride Facility Location Issue: A Case Study for Cuenca City in Ecuador

A park-and-ride (P&R) system is a set of facilities where private vehicle users can transfer to public transport continue their journey. The main advantage the decreasing congestion in central business district. This paper aims analyze most significant factors related Park-and-Ride facility location by adopting combined model Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Best Worst Method (BWM). integrated applicable for complex problems, which be structured as hierarchy with at least one 5 × pairwise comparison matrix (PCM) (or bigger). Applying AHP PCM may generate inconsistent matrices, cause loss reliable information. As solution this gap, we conducted BWM, generates more consistent comparisons compared approach. Moreover, requires fewer classic That reason AHP-BWM evaluate designed two-level hierarchical structure. case study, real-world decision-making process was selected problem Cuenca city, Ecuador. result shows that application multi-criteria methods becomes planning tool experts when designing P&R system.