A Review of Multi-Criteria Assessment of the Social Sustainability of Infrastructures

[EN] Nowadays multi-criteria methods enable non-monetary aspects to be incorporated into the assessment of infrastructure sustainability. Yet evaluation of the social aspects is still neglected and the multi-criteria assessment of these social aspects is still an emerging topic. Therefore, the aim o...

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Authors: Sierra-Varela, Leonardo Andres, Yepes, V.|||0000-0001-5488-6001, Pellicer, Eugenio|||0000-0001-9100-0644
Format: article
Publication Date:2018
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repository:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/142505
Online Access:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/142505
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Infrastructure
Multi-criteria
Social sustainability
Equity
Stakeholders
Uncertainty
PROYECTOS DE INGENIERIA
INGENIERIA DE LA CONSTRUCCION
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Summary:[EN] Nowadays multi-criteria methods enable non-monetary aspects to be incorporated into the assessment of infrastructure sustainability. Yet evaluation of the social aspects is still neglected and the multi-criteria assessment of these social aspects is still an emerging topic. Therefore, the aim of this article is to review the current state of multi-criteria infrastructure assessment studies that include social aspects. The review includes an analysis of the social criteria, participation and assessment methods. The results identify mobility and access, safety and local development among the most frequent criteria. The Analytic Hierarchy Process and Simple Additive Weighting methods are the most frequently used. Treatments of equity, uncertainty, learning and consideration of the context, however, are not properly analyzed yet. Anyway, the methods for implementing the evaluation must guarantee the social effect on the result, improvement of the representation of the social context and techniques to facilitate the evaluation in the absence of information.