Dept. of Electrical and Information Engineering, Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy.
Dept. of Mechanics, Mathematics and Management, Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy.
J Environ Manage. 2018 Nov 15;226:46-61. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.07.075. Epub 2018 Aug 12.
The recent development of metropolitan cities, especially in Europe, requires an effective integrated management of city services, infrastructure, and communication networks at a metropolitan level. A preliminary step towards a proper organizational and management strategy of the metropolitan city is the analysis, benchmarking and optimization of the metropolitan areas through a set of indicators coherent with the overall sustainability objective of the metropolitan city. This paper proposes the use of the Analytic Hierarchy Process multi-criteria decision making technique for application in the smart metropolitan city context, with the aim of analysing the sustainable development of energy, water and environmental systems, through a set of objective performance indicators. Specifically, the 35 indicators defined for the Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems Index framework are used. The application of the approach to the real case study of four metropolitan areas (Bari, Bitonto, Mola, and Molfetta) in the city of Bari (Italy) shows its usefulness for the local government in benchmarking metropolitan areas and providing decision indications on how to formulate the sustainable development strategy of the metropolitan city. Based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process characteristics, the results highlight that although one specific area (Mola in the considered case) is globally ranked at the first place, it is only ranked first with respect to some dimensions. Such a result has strong implications for the metropolitan city's manager who has the possibility to identify and implement targeted actions, which may be designed ad hoc to improve specific dimensions based on the current state of the city, thus maximizing the efficiency and effectiveness of the actions undertaken for the sustainable development of energy, water and environmental systems of the whole metropolitan city.
近年来，大都市的发展，特别是在欧洲，需要在大都市层面上对城市服务、基础设施和通信网络进行有效的综合管理。大都市适当的组织和管理策略的初步步骤是通过一套与大都市整体可持续性目标一致的指标，对大都市地区进行分析、基准测试和优化。本文提出了使用层次分析法多准则决策技术在智能大都市背景下的应用，旨在通过一套客观的绩效指标来分析能源、水和环境系统的可持续发展。具体来说，使用了能源、水和环境系统可持续发展指数框架中定义的 35 个指标。该方法在意大利巴里市的四个大都市地区（巴里、比通托、莫拉和莫尔费塔）的实际案例研究中的应用表明，该方法对地方政府具有基准测试大都市地区的有用性，并提供了关于如何制定大都市可持续发展战略的决策指示。基于层次分析法的特点，结果表明，尽管一个特定的区域（在考虑的案例中是莫拉）在全球排名第一，但它仅在某些方面排名第一。这样的结果对大都市的管理者具有很强的启示，管理者有机会识别和实施有针对性的行动，这些行动可以根据城市的现状专门设计，从而最大限度地提高为整个大都市的能源、水和环境系统的可持续发展而采取的行动的效率和效果。
