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Volume 1, Issue 2 (12-2019)
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Aims: Nowadays, referred to as clean industry, tourism is one of the important issues that cannot be ignored due to its huge impact on economy of societies. In order to develop tourism areas, such areas should first be identified. The aim of this study was to present an optimal spatial development pattern of tourism areas in Tehran province, using TOPSIS (Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) method.

Instruments and Methods: The present study is applied developmental in terms of aim and descriptive-analytical in terms of research method. The research population consisted of 30 scholars, experts, tourism planners, and experts of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism Organization. The data were collected from library and organizational studies and field surveys, such as questionnaires, interviews, and observations. In 2016, the TOPSIS method was utilized and 10 indices in Tehran province were used in order to group the areas. ArcGIS10.2 was used for clustering.

Findings: For the spatial development of tourism industry, Tehran province was divided into 3 clusters, in which the eastern and northern parts of the province were assigned to cluster 1, the western, central, and southeastern parts of the province were assigned to cluster 2, and southwestern parts of the province were assigned to cluster 3.

Conclusion: In ordre to present an optimal spatial development pattern of tourism areas in Tehran province using the TOPSIS method, 3 clusters of Tehran province are divided into cluster 1 (Eastern and northern parts), cluster 2 (western, central, and southeastern parts), and cluster 3 (southwestern parts).



Volume 5, Issue 4 (12-2023)
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Introduction
Cities, as the most complex man-made structures, face a wide range of risks, both due to a wide range of hazards and due to their multiple vulnerabilities. Urban vulnerabilities are felt everywhere, from infrastructure and buildings to telecommunications, transportation and energy lines, and it should be kept in mind that reducing vulnerabilities on the scale of a city is not simply reinforcing buildings and single buildings. The disasters that have happened in recent years show that societies and individuals have become more and more vulnerable, and the risks and hazards have also increased. Risk is a combination of danger and vulnerability. However, reducing risk and vulnerability is often ignored until after accidents occur. Based on the predictions made, by 2030, about 6 billion people out of the 8.1 billion population of the planet will live in cities, and about two-thirds of them will live in metropolises.
Methodology
The current research is applied and is descriptive-analytic in terms of implementation method. The statistical population of this research consists of experts and professors according to the subject, 30 people among them have been selected as the sample size using the personal estimation method. It was done in the 8th region by using some models (Topsis, Shannon Entropy) and finally GIS software was used to draw the maps. Statistical sources and documents were prepared for this purpose, and required maps were collected from related organizations and departments. In general, maps: 1. Map of municipal areas 2. Periodic development 3. Earthquake lines 4. Rivers, etc. were used in the analysis of this article. It should be noted that many of the maps were incomplete, and the authors completed and edited them. After editing the required maps, a new output was obtained, which was considered the final urban development map of Kermanshah metropolis.
This article is trying to explain and use the integration of physical, social and natural components by using quantitative models and also considering the necessary indexing (fundamental studies). Also, solutions that can be implemented (operational methods) have been considered. In this article, purposes such as providing the zoning of vulnerability and the risk map for facilitating the identification of the critical regions of the Kermanshah metropolis, etc., according to the data and results of this research and determining the favorite directions for the physical-spatial development of the Kermanshah metropolis in the future with consideration of the earthquake risk zone and compliance with Passive defense considerations are followed. The results of the research and the favorite directions for the physical-spatial development of Kermanshah metropolis in the future, taking into account the earthquake risk zone, are followed. This process is displayed in the TOPSIS model by using the opinions of the respondents and the physical and spatial development of the city. According to the principles of Passive defense and research objectives, the research method has become operational. The article is practical in terms of its purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of its application. To conduct this research, 4 economic, social, physical and natural components were chosen, along with their indicators.
Discussion and results
The process of periodical development can be defined as the physical expansion of settlements (both urban and rural) that are registered in approved urban development plans or managed under the political-administrative rule of a specific organization, such as the municipality, at different historical periods. Also, from the digitization of aerial and satellite images, etc., by identifying the trends and mentioning the time of physical expansion, their authority depends on the continuous growth (interlacing or joining) of each period of time in a circular or sectional manner to the period before it (none from special exceptions, such as municipal management of a specific town in its immediate territory). Considering the map of the physical development of the metropolis of Kermanshah, it can be acknowledged in the historical ages that the periodic development process of Kermanshah was intertwined with the urban defense system, and in a way, the physical growth of Kermanshah was also a product of the defense factor. Also, the cause of the imposed war and the migration of provincial war veterans, etc., have been among the factors in this unbridled growth. This unbridled population pressure is so evident that the informal settlements and the injection of residential settlements outside the pre-planned development plans have broken the scope of the plan, and these factors, together with economic poverty and a lack of strict monitoring, have made many of the topics of meaningful Vulnerability according to the 45 components and indicators to such an extent that a meaningful relationship between the socio-economic base, like many of Iran's cities have a physical-spatial structure, gave the City a shape in the form of a socio-economic base. The socio-economic base, special neighborhoods and areas were chosen for settlement and the horizontal and scattered development of the City due to these separations spread beyond the original borders (before 1330) and areas 7 and 5 are near and along the mountain. Taq Bostan, and regions 8 and 4 in the heights and Mahor hills of Koh Sefid and regions 3, 2, 6 and 1 in the Kermanshah plain and parallel to the river continued to expand. Undoubtedly, this process of physical development and growth is inevitable in opposition to the scattered fault lines on the surface. The City is located, and it should be considered and paid attention by city managers by creating multipurpose uses and increasing open and green spaces per capita, preventing desertification, emphasizing strengthening, etc., the balanced and horizontal growth of the City in development plans. In the present article, with basic studies and theoretical foundations related to the subject and the study area, the required database in the ArcGIS software environment was formed, and then the vulnerability of the areas was assessed according to the conditions of the study area. Finally, the vulnerability of Kermanshah metropolis according to the principles of Passive defense and quantitative and qualitative criteria using ArcGIS software and the TOPSIS model in the form of a vulnerable zone map and the periodic development of the City and City development directions based on the location of Passive defense.
Conclusions
Cities are moving towards becoming networked and systemic, and the systemic approach is manifested in the system of cities, which contains all the localities and regions of the urban system. Therefore, we should not forget that threats are a living and serious element that has always existed in all human activities and man-made infrastructures. What is taken from the article as results is certain: this is that the distinction between the base and the socio-economic position in the analysis of urban vulnerability has shown its real expression in the more vulnerable zones 5, 7 and 6 and the zones 8, 4, 1, 2 and 3 with less vulnerability, which have emerged from the heart of the metropolis of Kermanshah. Because informal settlements, hieratical, inefficient and worn-out urban neighborhoods are generally located in areas with high Vulnerability (except for the historical context of the City on the border of zones 8, 4, 3 and 2), skeletal, resistant, open-space buildings, etc. are located in areas with less vulnerability. In conclusion, what is evident is that the circular growth and development of the City until 1330 and after that, the linear growth of the City from Sarab Taq Bostan in the northern side to Sarab Qanbar in the southern side was dominant until 1350, and the City, from this date until now, has spread all over and the physical growth of the City has dominated on the western and eastern sides of the City by the construction of industrial towns and the creation of residential areas in these sides with the aim of development programs and helping development and construction. The aspects of physical-spatial development will face problems practically in some regions. This requires concentration and attention to the various faults in the north and south of the city, along with the Qarasu river, which apply principles and considerations of Passive defense in urban development, increasing per capita green uses, relief, etc., using resistant materials, preventing desertification, and creating new multipurpose uses.
Mehdi Taherkhani,
Volume 7, Issue 3 (10-2007)
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Global experience shows that rural agro-based industries can result into rural production, productivity, access to job opportunities, promotion of intersectoral relationships and reduction of regional disparities. Howevere, success of rural agro- based industries depends heaviliy on selecting the best location for the establishment of these industrial activities. Although regional planners have used various methods for prioritising industrial location, but it seems that TOPSIS (technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution), is one of the most practical methods for classification of places based on priority. In fact TOPSIS, known as one of the classical MCDM methods, is based on the idea that the chosen alternative should have the shortest distance from the positive ideal solution and the furthest distance from the negative ideal solution on the other side

Volume 9, Issue 2 (7-2005)
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In this article, it has been tried to choose suitable production technology for a specific product with the use of Multiple Attribute Decision Making and TOPSIS Decision Making model. ELECTRE Decision Making Model has been used to evaluate and confirm the accuracy of its results. The offered model has been used for suitable Production technology in Paraffin Industry and the results have been compared with the view points of experinced experts in this industry.

Volume 9, Issue 2 (7-2005)
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In this article, it has been tried to choose suitable production technology for a specific product with the use of Multiple Attribute Decision Making and TOPSIS Decision Making model. ELECTRE Decision Making Model has been used to evaluate and confirm the accuracy of its results. The offered model has been used for suitable Production technology in Paraffin Industry and the results have been compared with the view points of experinced experts in this industry.

Volume 9, Issue 4 (2-2020)
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As time goes on and cities expand, various issues, such as traffic problems, noise and air pollution, urban sprawling, land use incompatibility, and so on, are plaguing urban managers. Sustainable development is one of the methods that tries to improve the current problems of cities by relying on minimal use of resources. One component of this model is smart growth, which claims to be consistent with the principles of sustainability. This paper attempts to explore the relationship between these indicators by examining the main parameters of smart growth and its adaptation to the components of spatial arrangement theory in three urban contexts in Bojnourd. In this regard, three main components of smart growth (pedestrian capability, user mixing and public transport) in these contexts have been investigated using TOPSIS and ANP methods. UCL Depthmap software has also been used to analyze space syntax indices.
This research was a developmental one and observational methods, questionnaires and libraries were used for data collection. The results indicate that walk-ability and mixed land use indices in the three investigated contexts were affected by the connectivity and integration of passages. However, in the study of public transport accessibility index, the impact of these indices has not been seen.


Volume 12, Issue 4 (1-2009)
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One of the most important permanence factors in today’s competition environment is decreasing of the cost of the products. Selecting the appropriate suppliers can significantly reduce the purchasing cost and increase organization competitiveness. It is due to the fact that in most industries, the cost of raw material and component parts includes the main cost of a product. The aim of this paper was to introduce a fuzzy decision making approach for supplier selection problems in supply chain. Most of such decisions are unstructured and many of the performance criteria such as quality, cost, flexibility and delivery time to determine the best supplier should be considered. In this paper, verbal variables were used for evaluation and determination of the performance of supplier under each criterion and determination of the weight of the criteria. Verbal variables were described by means of the triangular and trapezoid fuzzy numbers. Furthermore, the priority and the rank of suppliers by fuzzy multi-criteria decision making were determined. Finally, an example was presented to the process of decision making.

Volume 14, Issue 2 (9-2010)
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This paper proposes a Fuzzy Multiple Criteria Decision Making (FMCDM) approach for measuring supply chains capability with the main aim of customer satisfaction development. Drawing on the four measurement criterions of a Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model, this research first summarized the customer satisfaction and performance indexes synthesized from the literature relating to supply chains capability. Then, for screening, the indexes fit for supply chains capability in customer satisfaction development were selected through fuzzy screening. Furthermore, the relative weights of the chosen indexes were calculated by Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP). The MCDM analytical tool of TOPSIS was adopted to rank the supply chains performance and improve the gaps with three supply chains as an empirical example. The analysis results highlighted the critical aspects of evaluation criteria as well as the gaps to improve supply chains capability for achieving the aspired/desired level of customer satisfaction development. The results also showed that the proposed FMCDM measuring model using the SCOR framework can be a useful and effective assessment tool.
Morteza Mokhtari, Seyed Komail Tayebi, Javad Mirmohammad Sadeghi,
Volume 16, Issue 1 (5-2016)
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The lack of resources and the communities' demands for various goods and services require effective prioritization of investment in different sectors of the economy. Prioritization could optimize resources allocation in addition to improve the social welfare level. This paper provides a framework for prioritizing investment in the services sector according to the aims and policies of A.T. organization. To do this, following determination of factors affecting investment priorities, this paper uses Fuzzy TOPSIS method as a model for setting priorities, since traditional methods in setting priority are insufficient in confronting with vague situations and linguistic evaluations. This method is based on combination of experts and decision-makers’ views in the form of qualitative performance evaluation indicators, which are expressed as triangular fuzzy numbers. The findings indicate that investment in financial and insurance services takes top priority over other services.

Volume 17, Issue 1 (2-2013)
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Decision-making in competitive situations is a challenge for managers. Identifying the strategic success factors (SSF) for each company and  determining the company’s position relative to its competitors due to the SSF are critical, which top managers use for survival in the competitive conditions. The aim of this paper is to create a quantitative method to determine the competitive benchmarking. In this study, average cost of production, company's brand equity, product quality, marketing and sales capabilities, purchasing capabilities, customer satisfaction, production flexibility, engineering capabilities, technical research capabilities, and the number of  R & D projects were identified as critical success factors by the experts of Profile and Pipe Steel Industry. The technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution was used to determine the positive benchmark (as positive ideal solution) and negative benchmark (as negative ideal solution). Then by considering the budget constraint, binary goal programming model was used to maximize the positive deviation between each rival and the negative benchmark, and to minimize the negative deviation between each rival and the positive benchmark. The results of the proposed model showed that which SSF rival should be considered to reach the positive benchmark.   Keywords:  

Volume 17, Issue 1 (5-2013)
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Volume 17, Issue 4 (1-2014)
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Today’s,more games,entertainmentsand sports are displayed significantly in industrial and modern world so that original fields are rooted in the history our beliefs, culture and ancestors. Need to play and activity isglobal andpublicand theboundariesof age, sex, social situation, economic and geography base break downinvillagesandcities. Everynationhasits ownplay and entertainmentandall peoplelovetoworkalongsidetheirsubsistence activitiesandobliged which is rooted in their demand .Role and position of villages in political , social and economical process of development in region local scale, international and such aswidespread poverty,inequalityandunderdevelopmentin ruralareas,thefastpopulationgrowth process, unemployment, migration, poor people and etc.the rural areas of undeveloped such as fast population growth, widespread poverty, inequality process, unemployment, migration, down town living is causing attention torural  area and  it’s priority on urban area. Exerciseand native play are importantrolesinrural areas structure. Thisapproach haseffectively role on physical health, identityandsocialinteractionopportunities forrural residents. The aim of study is evaluation of native games position inrural areas.The range of the study is 10 villages of Miankaleh rural district villages in Behshsahr city and researchmethod is survey and analytical - descriptive. Data collection is designed field and document through questionnaire inLikert scale. Research question is then analyzed by (SPSS) software. The research result  showed that according to comparison  the average of  assessment items in every sample size scales, it can be deducted  that total status quo component mean were lower than average and these  changes  weren’t significant; it seems that native games there is no Specific position in study villages levels, also, by utilizing (TOPSIS) method in native games ranking,according to calculated weight in every scale, games such as Haftsang,Tilehbazi and GHayembashi have the most position and Gerdubazi,sangsangro ,also have the lower position between peasants    

Volume 18, Issue 3 (12-2014)
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Disaster reduction and sustainable development require understanding and explaining the true nature and extent of the communities and places of natural hazards (earthquakes) is. Therefore, assessment of social vulnerability to earthquakes in cities of various sizes can play a role in risk assessment and management of these natural phenomena can play. The study of character development - practical, descriptive - analytical, objective assessment and prioritization of social vulnerability in the face of natural hazards (earthquakes), and using TOPSIS quantitative models and GIS, Excel and SPSS software to the issue is discussed. Also, in order to reduce the error rate to determine a more accurate forecast of 50 sub-indices of social variables - economic, physical-the physical and Yazd populations were analyzed. The results show the vulnerability of the region average 0/412, the second with a rate region TOPSIS the, 0/642 percent of the most vulnerable regions, Region 3 with the TOPSIS, 0/411 percent, and the region 1of moderate vulnerability with the TOPSIS, 0/183 percent of lowest social vulnerability to earthquakes in the area has Yazd city. 0/183 percent of lowest social vulnerability to earthquakes in the area has Yazd city. 0/183 percent of lowest social vulnerability to earthquakes in the area has Yazd city.

Volume 20, Issue 3 (11-2016)
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Nowadays, development is one of issues that have been important among geographers recently. Whereas public services stablish economic, social, cultural, physical and spatial form and nature of regions, thus inequity in their distribution and dispersion manner creates irreparable effect for regions structure and form, and appearance cause of types of development levels, and creates advantages for some regions. This reaearch aims analyzing development level of Alborz provinces counties. Thus, research method is comparative- analytical method, research type is practical, and data gathering is library way. Therefore Alborz counties have been categorized in having services aspect after nominating indicators (43 indicators) in 4 dimensions using TOPSIS, SAW, WASPAS, and Combinatorial (scores median) models, then plans priorities have been characterized according to public services dispersion for every county. Research findings show that Karaj, Sawojbolagh and Nazar Abad counties have the least development level, and Eshtehard and Taleghan have the highest development level (by scores 1 and 2) in  public services distribution aspect. Result of pearson correlation analysis shows that there is a logical relationship between population (as the most important factor in developing sercices) and sercices dispersion. Therefore, system of services distribution in Alborz province needs to create rational and harmonic relationship between population and services distribution.
 
 
 

Volume 20, Issue 4 (1-2017)
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The aim of this research Evaluating and prioritizing areas Based on parameters creative city of Sanandaj. Type of research is Practical and method used in this study is Analytical-descriptive. For analysis of data was used from the model of network analysis, TOPSIS, multivariate regression analysis questionnaire.Statistical.The statistical population Consists of the five regions in Sanandaj and The criteria research includes 21 sub-indices creative cities is in the context Including 4 overall indexes. The results of the ANP model Show innovation criteria with 0.063 the greatest impact in the region to the Creative region in Sanandaj. The index of the number of researchers at 0.116 and number of inventions with 0.088 Have the most important role in the realization of their creative city of Sanandaj. Checking status of cultural services, the region three with the topsis 0.9596 in the First place and Region four with the topsis 0.2851 were the last rank about level of creativity a level of creativity between the regions of Sanandaj. The calculation of the relationship between the creative city and the current status of these components shows 63.7 percent of the realization that the creative regions of Sanandaj city Improve and increase the application of creative city components on statistical analysis of the questionnaire, Human Capital Index with the (4.24) percent and the quality of life with a (3.82) Have greatest and less less less less impact on Movement of a Region to creative region in Sanandaj. Keywords: Creative City, innovation, network analysis, TOPSIS, regions of the Sanandaj city  

Volume 22, Issue 1 (6-2018)
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Performance-based budgeting is one of the key factors of today's organization efficiency. Economically, "budget philosophy" is due to the existence of a "total contradiction" that is in every society and a curtesy of "knowledge economy" is completely created. Based on experts’ opinions, Lack of understanding and restructuring the issue of the budget is one of the operational problems of the performance-based budgeting of an organization. In this study, we decided to use the soft systems methodology to deal with budget issues that have components of social, political and human. In this methodology, the problem is a part of a single system rather than a problem to be investigated. Also, after structuring the problem and identifying preferences of experts, hierarchical clustering was applied to prioritize indicators. Therefore by combining these two approaches for Iran Social Security organization, Medicare and investment were prioritized. The results made the gap clear and paved the way for performance-based budgeting.

Volume 22, Issue 2 (3-2020)
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The purpose of this descriptive-analytical research was to analyze the advantages and limitations of agricultural land consolidation in the villages of Dehgolan Township, Iran. The statistical population of this study included 190 farmers in the villages of Dehrashid (where the adaptive consolidation plan was implemented between beneficiaries) and Telvar (in which the plan has not yet been implemented among farmers). The samples were selected from 140 people by using the Krejcie and Morgan sample size table and stratified random sampling method. The data gathering instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire, which was presented to the faculty members of the Department of Rural Geography at Kharazmi University to confirm the face and content validity. Further, the reliability of the tested items was confirmed by using the Cronbach's alpha (α= 0.81). To analyze the data obtained from the farmers' opinions, multi-criteria decision making FTOPSIS (Fuzzy TOPSIS) analysis methods and linear regression in SPSS24 were used. The results of regression analysis indicated that the main obstacles of implementing consolidation in the studied area were "economic" (β= 0.416) and "technical" (β= 0.304). Also, there was a significant difference between the two periods before and after consolidation of agricultural lands in terms of crop production and reduction of operating costs. In general, the effects of consolidation indicated a higher level of crops production per unit area, yield per unit area, income from agriculture and its sustainability, job diversification, and a decrease in immigration in the studied villages.
 

Volume 22, Issue 4 (3-2019)
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With economic development and population growth, the global need for energy is increasing steadily. Fossil fuels are the most commonly used fuel in the world, but their resources are limited. Therefore, for sustainable development, the need to use renewable energy sources is felt more than ever. Solar energy recognized as the most important and most affordable one. In Iran, the availability of suitable climate and sunlight in many areas and seasons has provided a good basis for using this kind of energy. The purpose of this research is to utilize a MCDM approach for evaluating the potential of different regions in Qazvin province for the establishment of a solar power station. In this regard, several evaluation criteria were identified and their importance was determined by the AHP method and then their uncertainty is modeled using fuzzy theory. Then, a potential map was developed using OWA and TOPSIS methods. Finally, the result of utilizing AHP-OWA method is compared with AHP-TOPSIS. Comparison of the weights of indicators shows the weather factors as important ones. In addition, according to the research findings, the Takestan region was recognized as a good area for establishing a solar power plant. Based on previous studies, construction of a 100MW solar power station in this area has been confirmed. This means that the proposed method is acceptable to be used by decision-makers as an effective tool.
 
 
Ali Mohammadipour,
Volume 22, Issue 4 (12-2022)
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Introduction
Considering the international policy towards sustainable development and conflict of the energy subsidy with the SDG, the present study examines the effects of subsidy on the realization of sustainable development in the selected countries. For this purpose, by designing and constructing a Composite Indicator (CI) for sustainable development, the performance of the top five countries in the world in terms of paying the most energy subsidies (first group), is compared with the performance of the world's large economies in terms of the highest rate of GDP (second group, mainly without paying energy subsidies). The hypotheses of the research are: 1) there is a negative relationship between the rankings of countries in terms of the largest energy subsidies with the ranking based on the realization of sustainable development. 2) the countries of the second group (with the lowest energy subsidies) have on average a better situation in achieving sustainable development compared to the countries of the first group. 3) among the countries of the second group, China has the least realization in sustainable development by paying significant energy subsidies.

 Methodology
In the present study, the composite index of sustainable development is investigated using 12 variables in the form of three economic, social and environmental dimensions and based on the design of Multiple Attribute Decision Making (MADM). The targeted CI is calculated using seven approaches: Z-Score, Max-Min, McGranahan, Experts’ Judgements Scoring, Guttman, TOPSIS and VIKOR, for selected countries over the period of 1990-2020, and the results are presented and compared at static and dynamic levels. To weight the variables, the same weighting technique, McGranahan, EJ scoring, Guttman and CRITIC (Criteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation) are used in the calculations.
Findings
The results of the study indicate the unfavorable situation of Iran in paying energy subsidies (ranked first in the world) and the realization of sustainable development (ranked last among the countries surveyed); Germany, on the other hand, ranks first in the study without paying energy subsidies. Ranking countries at the dynamic level, while eliminating the existing problems at the static level, indicates a strong negative relationship between paying energy subsidies and achieving sustainable development. This confirms the first hypothesis of the research. In this regard, the correlation between the average energy subsidy and SDIMax-Min  has been increased to -0.74 and the ranked correlation between SDIMax-Min  and subsidy payment has been improved to -0.85. On the other hand, the average values of sustainable development indicators, with the change of study approach and weighting techniques, have had similar and stable results, which all indicate that the ranking of countries in different situations has become more realistic in the dynamic level compared to the static level. Also, the comparison of the average sustainable development realization in the first and second groups, shows that in terms of quantity and rank, the countries of the second group have a significant advantage over the first group, which means confirming the second hypothesis. And finally, in the ranking based on 7 approaches, China is ranked 4th after Germany, America and Japan in 6 approaches, which means confirming the third hypothesis. The results of sensitivity analysis indicate the high share of life expectancy, per capita income and education index in the targeted CI.

Discussion and Conclusion
Regarding some minor differences in the results of the seven approaches, using De Montis et al. (2021)'s experience based on calculating the average ranks and Miç & Figen Antmen (2021)'s experience based on setting the criterion of the highest repetition of the rank in different approaches, all hypotheses are confirmed and the ranking of the countries does not change. Also, if we perform a sensitivity analysis on the approaches, there will be no change in the final ranking result. The main suggestion derived from the results of the research is the necessity of planning to eliminate energy subsidies in the country in accordance with international policies from 2015. However, according to Mohammadipour et al. (2022), the removal of energy subsidies and the modification of the energy carriers’ prices creates very extensive and lasting (long-term) destructive effects on macroeconomic variables. On the other hand, according to Taylor (2020), based on the REmap (Renewable Energy roadmap analysis) by IRENA (International Renewable Energy Agency), firstly, policy development in the direction of renewable energy, nuclear, etc., and planning to reduce fossil fuel subsidies have been identified in the form of two axes (until 2030 and until 2050). And secondly, a special path has been drawn to manage and move from harmful subsidies to the environment and sustainable development to environmentally friendly subsidies until 2050. Therefore, considering the destructive effects of energy subsidies, it is suggested that all reforms and removal of energy subsidies should be carried out in the form of a comprehensive, regulated, gradual program with a strong redistributive role of the government. Secondly, all these actions should be done in line with the global planning and policy and taking into account the REmap. Also, the research results of the study suggest that in the design of MADM models, when the data are of the time series type, Z-Score, Max-Min, McGranahan, Experts’ Judgements Scoring and Guttman approaches perform better (and more recommended) by replacing the opposite variable for each time series data. However, when the data are not in the time series form, the performance of TOPSIS and VIKOR approaches are optimal (and more recommended) by simplifying complex relationships.


Volume 23, Issue 6 (11-2023)
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Training of professional drivers has been considered widely in the countries, greatly developed in traffic safety. Also in our country, tangible increasing in statistics of road and urban car accidents is observable which led the authorities to set professional courses for drivers. The main purpose of this project is ranking the courses and headings of training professional drivers. Required data were collected as questionnaire sheets, answered by 39 experts and 80 professional drivers about the loading and passenger transportation. At last five training courses (Professional driving skills, Vehicle specification, Occupational health, Road transportation rules and regulation, Criteria of handling and inhibition of different loads) and headings of each course, That is a total 24 headlines, were ranked by FAHP-FTOPSIS hybrid model. Results show that professional driving skills, public transportation criteria, professional health and safety, containment and carrying loads criterion and vehicle specifications were ranked from 1 to 5 respectively. In the course professional driving skills, roads help and rescue, principles of safe driving, defensive driving skills, driving in special conditions, per-travel measures and driving primary principles were ranked from 1 to 6 respectively. In the course of vehicle specification titles of new systems and technologies, repair and maintenance skills, material recognizing and details of settings and interior equipment were ranked from 1 to 4. In the course of professional health titles of sleepy and tired feelings effects, drug using effects, professional ethics drivers illness and healthy diet and traveling life skills were ranked from 1 to 5 respectively. In the course of transportation criteria titles of prohibited and violations, regulations criteria, acquaintance of different insurances and importance of them and documents were ranked from 1 to 4 respectively. In the course of containment and carrying loads which is particular for freight drivers, carrying dangerous loads, principles of different loads containment, tools of load containment, size and weight of different loads and connection and disjunction of trailers were ranked from 1 to 5 respectively.Training of professional drivers has been considered widely in the countries, greatly developed in traffic safety. Also in our country, tangible increasing in statistics of road and urban car accidents is observable which led the authorities to set professional courses for drivers. The main purpose of this project is ranking the courses and headings of training professional drivers. Required data were collected as questionnaire sheets, answered by 39 experts and 80 professional drivers about the loading and passenger transportation. At last five training courses (Professional driving skills, Vehicle specification, Occupational health, Road transportation rules and regulation, Criteria of handling and inhibition of different loads) and headings of each course, That is a total 24 headlines, were ranked by FAHP-FTOPSIS hybrid model. Results show that professional driving skills, public transportation criteria, professional health and safety, containment and carrying loads criterion and vehicle specifications were ranked from 1 to 5 respectively. In the course professional driving skills, roads help and rescue, principles of safe driving, defensive driving skills, driving in special conditions, per-travel measures and driving primary principles were ranked from 1 to 6 respectively. In the course of vehicle specification titles of new systems and technologies, repair and maintenance skills, material recognizing and details of settings and interior equipment were ranked from 1 to 4. In the course of professional health titles of sleepy and tired feelings effects, drug using effects, professional ethics drivers illness and healthy diet and traveling life skills were ranked from 1 to 5 respectively. In the course of transportation criteria titles of prohibited and violations, regulations criteria, acquaintance of different insurances and importance of them and documents were ranked from 1 to 4 respectively. In the course of containment and carrying loads which is particular for freight drivers, carrying dangerous loads, principles of different loads containment, tools of load containment, size and weight of different loads and connection and disjunction of trailers were ranked from 1 to 5 respectively.

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