Assessing the social sustainability contribution of an infrastructure project under conditions of uncertainty

[EN] Assessing the viability of a public infrastructure includes economic, technical and environmental aspects; however, on many occasions, the social aspects are not always adequately considered. This article proposes a procedure to estimate the social sustainability of infrastructure projects unde...

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Autores: Sierra Varela, Leonardo Andrés, Yepes, V.|||0000-0001-5488-6001, Pellicer, Eugenio|||0000-0001-9100-0644
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/93270
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/93270
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Infrastructure
Multicriteria decision-making
Uncertainty
Social sustainability
INGENIERIA DE LA CONSTRUCCION
PROYECTOS DE INGENIERIA
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Sumario:[EN] Assessing the viability of a public infrastructure includes economic, technical and environmental aspects; however, on many occasions, the social aspects are not always adequately considered. This article proposes a procedure to estimate the social sustainability of infrastructure projects under conditions of uncertainty, based on a multicriteria deterministic method. The variability of the method inputs is contributed by the decision-makers. Uncertain inputs are treated through uniform and beta PERT distributions. The Monte Carlo method is used to propagate uncertainty in the method. A case study of a road infrastructure improvement in El Salvador is used to illustrate this treatment. The main results determine the variability of the short and long-term social improvement indices by infrastructure and the probability of the position in the prioritization of the alternatives. The proposed mechanism improves the reliability of the decision making early in infrastructure projects, taking their social contribution into account. The results can complement environmental and economic sustainability assessments.