COMPARATIVE STUDY OF AHP AND MAUT FOR MULTI-CRITERIA DECISIONS IN FLOOD CONTROL PROJECTS

초록

The plans for flood control projects are for the public and are associated with various purposes and criteria in addition to engineering aspect. This study aims to provide a decision making model for flood control projects. So this study starts with a comparison of advantages and disadvantages between the AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process) and the MAUT(Multi- Attribute Utility Theory) by applying these techniques to make decision in a flood control project. To this end, this study develops the integrated evaluation model for the decision of investment priorities considering social, political, environmental criteria in addition to economic aspect and the model is applied to the channel improvement project for the Kum River basin. From the study, these two techniques show the similar priorities, but a few phenomena which originated from theoretical differences are found. Also, this study may have the worth in reflecting subjective values properly as well as considering environmental value and social equity which have not been considered by the existing method.