Selecting an alternative concrete batching plant location using IT2 fuzzy anp methodology

Abstract

Ready-Mixed Concrete started to be used after the 1970s, and its importance has gradually increased in recent years. The rapid development of the construction industry in our country in recent years has contributed to the rapid development of Ready-Mixed Concrete plants. Because of this reason, in this study, the concrete plant's location is determined using the Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Analytic Network (IT2 FANP) methodology. As a result of this methodology, the ranking of the alternative concrete plant's location is found as Basaksehir, Ikitelli, and Bagcilar, respectively. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study in the literature that searches for an alternative concrete batching plant location using Interval Type-2 (IT2) Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) techniques. The problem may be examined using various MCDM methodologies, and further solutions for selecting alternate concrete plant locations can be researched in the future. The value of this study is that it fills in a gap in the existing literature and serves as a foundation for future research in this sector.