Research Article

Identifying Critical Bankability Criteria for PPP Projects: The Case of China

Table 2

The linguistic terms and the corresponding triangular fuzzy numbers.

Scale of importanceLinguistic termTriangular fuzzy numbers

1Equal importance (EqI)(1, 1, 1)
3Weak importance (WI)(1, 3, 5)
5Moderate importance (MI)(3, 5, 7)
7Strong importance (SI)(5, 7, 9)
9Extreme importance (ExI)(7, 9, 9)