Supporting Regional Airport Planning in Brazil via Analytic Hierarchy Process
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https://doi.org/10.1590/jatm.v18.1463Keywords:
Regional aviation, Airport planning, Site selection, Multicriteria analysis, Sustainable urban mobility, Analytic hierarchy processAbstract
The objective of this study was to evaluate a shared regional airport site for Pato Branco and Francisco Beltrão, Paraná, Brazil, using airport site selection methodology. Ten sites were identified within a 550 km2 search area. Five were excluded because of obstacle or infrastructure constraints; the remaining sites were surveyed and ranked using the analytic hierarchy process. Thirty-three federal, academic, and regional experts assessed the criteria independently, and 18 judgments met the prescribed consistency threshold. Group priorities were compared using exploratory Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney’s tests, and weight sensitivity was assessed one criterion at a time. Sites 2, 2C, and 2A were the three highest-ranked alternatives under every group-specific weighting scheme. The regional group assigned greater weight to earthmoving volume and land access than the federal and academic groups. Earthmoving volume accounted for 25–67% of the global weight, whereas the noise criterion did not discriminate among the sites. The conclusion was that the three-site short list was stable across stakeholder groups and more stable than its internal ordering.
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