Multicriteria Evaluation of Transport Plan for High-Speed Rail: An Application to Beijing-Xiongan

<table class="fixed-width table-group" id="tab13"><tr><td><table class="table"><colgroup><col style="width:8.52em"/><col style="width:18.56em"/></colgroup><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Intensity of importance</td><td class="align_center">Definition</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">1</td><td class="align_center">Equal importance</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">3</td><td class="align_center">Moderate importance of one factor over another</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">5</td><td class="align_center">Strong or essential importance</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">7</td><td class="align_center">Very strong importance</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">9</td><td class="align_center">Extreme importance</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">2,4,6,8</td><td class="align_center">Values for intermediate comparison</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Saaty’s scale for pairwise comparison.</div>

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