MCDA Approach to Evaluate Planning and Consolidation Freight Strategies for Sustainable Goods Distribution: Case of Indian City Jaipur

This paper aims to rank and weights the planning and consolidation freight strategies from the literature in the city of Jaipur in India. Two multi-criteria decision-making (MCDA) techniques, the Analytic Hierarchical Process (AHP) and the Best Worst Method are used to analyze the weights of various planning and consolidation freight strategies (BWM). The hypothesis for using AHP and BWM is assumed that both methods produce equivalent results and are suitable techniques to select freight strategies in urban areas keeping the concerns of stakeholders of city logistics. This study includes wholesalers, shippers, transport operators, policy planners, and city administrators as key stakeholders in the case city for the evaluation of the planning and consolidation strategies for sustainable urban goods distribution. Face-to-face paper and pencil survey methods were used with key stakeholders to determine the weight of strategies. The study's policy implications show how MCDA techniques could be applied in India's city logistics domain as a decision-making instrument.