Research Article

Development of a Decision Making Algorithm for Traffic Jams Reduction Applied to Intelligent Transportation Systems

Table 1

AHP fundamental scale for pairwise comparisons.

Intensity of importance DefinitionExplanation

1 Equal importanceTwo activities contribute equally to the objective
3 Weak importance of one over anotherModerate importance or preference of one over another
5 Strong importanceStrong importance or preference
7 Demonstrated importanceVery strong importance
9 Absolute importanceExtreme preference
2, 4, 6, 8 Intermediate values between the two adjacent judgementsWhen compromise is needed