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Editorial Decision-Making for Urban Planning and Regional Development Marta Bottero , 1 Chiara D’Alpaos, 2 and Alessandra Oppio 3 1 Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, Politecnico di Torino, Italy 2 Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Padua, Italy 3 Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Correspondence should be addressed to Marta Bottero; [email protected] Received 26 November 2018; Accepted 26 November 2018; Published 10 January 2019 Copyright © Marta Bottero et al. is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Urban and regional development can be considered as mul- tidimensional concepts which involve socioeconomic, eco- logical, cultural, technical, and ethical perspectives. Decision problems in the domain of urban and regional development processes represent “weak” or unstructured problems as they are characterized by multiple actors, many and oen conflicting values and views, a wealth of possible outcomes, and high uncertainty. Under these circumstances, evaluation of alternative projects is therefore a complex decision problem, where dif- ferent aspects need to be considered simultaneously, and both technical elements, based on empirical observations, and non-technical elements, based on social visions, preferences, and feelings, need to be taken into account. is complexity requires multidimensional approaches and specific qualita- tive/quantitative methods to analyse and synthesize the full variety of aspects involved in transformation processes, that range from the environmental impacts of urban renewal to its impacts on energy consumption/production patterns and mobility; from the social and economic impacts of a specific urban transformation strategy to its effects on landscape and cultural heritage. is special issue addresses recent advances on the role of evaluation in supporting decision-makers in urban planning and regional development. papers are published in this special issue; each paper was reviewed by at least two reviewers and revised according to review comments. e accepted papers show the role of evaluation procedures to support decisions in the context of urban management and territorial transformations. e paper “A New Robust Dynamic Data Envelopment Analysis Approach for Sustainable Supplier Evaluation” by Nikfarjam et al. presents a new dynamic Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach for suppliers selection which takes into account social, environmental and economic criteria and considers differently from previous literature, contiguous time periods. In detail efficient Decision Making Units (DMUs) are identified in each time period and as well as an ideal DMU by implementing a robust scenario-based optimization approach. e paper “Multicriteria Evaluation of Urban Regener- ation Processes: An Application of PROMETHEE Method in Northern Italy” by M. Bottero et al. proposes an original multimethodological evaluation procedure, which combines SWOT Analysis, Stakeholders Analysis, and PROMETHEE method, to evaluate alternative renewal strategies in an urban area in Northern Italy and provide decision-makers with useful tools in making welfare-maximizing urban planning decisions. e paper “Measuring Conflicts Using Cardinal Ranking: An Application to Decision Analytic Conflict Evaluations” by T. Fasth et al. provides: (a) an application of the cardinal ranking method for preference elicitation to inform decision- makers with respect to controversies; (b) and two indexes to measure potential conflicts within a group of stakeholders or between two groups of stakeholders. e paper “Minimizing Cost Travel in Multimodal Trans- port Using Advanced Relation Transitive Closure” by R. Oucheikh et al. proposes a new method for travel cost opti- mization, which can be applied either on path optimization Hindawi Advances in Operations Research Volume 2019, Article ID 5178051, 2 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/5178051
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EditorialDecision-Making for Urban Planning andRegional Development
Marta Bottero ,1 Chiara D’Alpaos,2 and Alessandra Oppio3
1Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, Politecnico di Torino, Italy2Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Padua, Italy3Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Correspondence should be addressed to Marta Bottero; [email protected]
Received 26 November 2018; Accepted 26 November 2018; Published 10 January 2019
Copyright © 2019 Marta Bottero et al. �is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Urban and regional development can be considered as mul-tidimensional concepts which involve socioeconomic, eco-logical, cultural, technical, and ethical perspectives. Decisionproblems in the domain of urban and regional developmentprocesses represent “weak” or unstructured problems asthey are characterized by multiple actors, many and oenconflicting values and views, a wealth of possible outcomes,and high uncertainty.
Under these circumstances, evaluation of alternativeprojects is therefore a complex decision problem, where dif-ferent aspects need to be considered simultaneously, and bothtechnical elements, based on empirical observations, andnon-technical elements, based on social visions, preferences,and feelings, need to be taken into account. �is complexityrequires multidimensional approaches and specific qualita-tive/quantitative methods to analyse and synthesize the fullvariety of aspects involved in transformation processes, thatrange from the environmental impacts of urban renewal toits impacts on energy consumption/production patterns andmobility; from the social and economic impacts of a specificurban transformation strategy to its effects on landscape andcultural heritage.
�is special issue addresses recent advances on the role ofevaluation in supporting decision-makers in urban planningand regional development. 6 papers are published in thisspecial issue; each paper was reviewed by at least tworeviewers and revised according to review comments. �eaccepted papers show the role of evaluation procedures tosupport decisions in the context of urban management andterritorial transformations.
�e paper “A New Robust Dynamic Data EnvelopmentAnalysis Approach for Sustainable Supplier Evaluation” byNikfarjam et al. presents a new dynamic Data EnvelopmentAnalysis (DEA) approach for suppliers selection which takesinto account social, environmental and economic criteriaand considers differently fromprevious literature, contiguoustime periods. In detail efficient Decision Making Units(DMUs) are identified in each time period and as well asan ideal DMU by implementing a robust scenario-basedoptimization approach.
�e paper “Multicriteria Evaluation of Urban Regener-ation Processes: An Application of PROMETHEE Methodin Northern Italy” by M. Bottero et al. proposes an originalmultimethodological evaluation procedure, which combinesSWOT Analysis, Stakeholders Analysis, and PROMETHEEmethod, to evaluate alternative renewal strategies in an urbanarea in Northern Italy and provide decision-makers withuseful tools in making welfare-maximizing urban planningdecisions.
�e paper “Measuring Conflicts Using Cardinal Ranking:An Application to Decision Analytic Conflict Evaluations”by T. Fasth et al. provides: (a) an application of the cardinalranking method for preference elicitation to inform decision-makers with respect to controversies; (b) and two indexes tomeasure potential conflicts within a group of stakeholders orbetween two groups of stakeholders.
�e paper “Minimizing Cost Travel inMultimodal Trans-port Using Advanced Relation Transitive Closure” by R.Oucheikh et al. proposes a new method for travel cost opti-mization, which can be applied either on path optimization
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for graphs or on binary constraint reduction in ConstraintSatisfaction Problem (CSP). In addition, it introduces themathematical background for the transitive closure of binaryrelations.
�e paper “Multiobjective Optimization for MultimodeTransportation Problems” by L. Lemarchand et al. presentsa model to solve service facilities localization problems ina multimode transportation context, by implementing anadapted 𝜀-constraint multiobjective method and exploringthe implementation of heuristic methods based on evolution-ary multiobjective frameworks.
�e paper “Integration between Transport Models andCost-Benefit Analysis to SupportDecision-Making Practices:Two Applications in Northern Italy” by P. Beria et al. con-tributes to the assessment of sustainable mobility transportplans and infrastructure projects, and presents an operativeapplication of Cost Benefit Analysis to the evaluation ofalternative scenarios, complemented by the implementationof transportation models and GIS.
�e papers in this special issue represent a scientificallybased support to address the complexity of decisions makingin urban planning and regional development, improve theeffectiveness and soundness of choices, and increase trans-parency in collective decision-making, by enhancing sharedlearning processes. We hope that this special issue will attractattention for further research into complex urban/territorialtransformation processes, and will prove to be a valuableresource in the improvement of knowledge that the develop-ment of future cities and society requires.
Conflicts of Interest
�is is to confirm that as guest editors of the special issuetitled “Decision-Making for Urban Planning and RegionalDevelopment” we have not any possible conflicts of interestor private agreements with companies.
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