Sustainable urban development and web-based multiple criteria analysis

Abstract

The analysis of information, expert and decision support systems used in sustainable urban development that were developed by researchers from various countries assisted the authors in the creation of their own Sustainable Urban Development Decision Support System (SUD-DSS). SUD-DSS differs from other systems in the use of new multiple criteria analysis methods as were developed by the authors. The database of a sustainable urban development was developed providing a comprehensive assessment of alternative versions from the economic, political, legal, social, management, technical, technological and other points of view. Based on the above complex databases, the developed SUD-DSS enables the user to analyse alternatives quantitatively (i.e. a system and subsystems of criteria, units of measure, values and weights) and conceptually (i.e. the text, formula, schemes, graphs, diagrams and videotapes).