Implications of a Spatial Multicriteria Decision Analysis for Urban Development in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Table 4

Ranking and weighting of factors (resulting consistency ratio is 0.021).

Rank	Criterion	Slope	Urban	Soil	Road	River	Veg.	Aspect	Relative weight
1	Slope gradient	1	1	2	3	4	4	10	0.307
2	Urban distance	1	1	1	2	3	4	4	0.221
3	Soil	1/2	1	1	1	2	4	4	0.173
4	Road distance	1/3	1/2	1	1	1	2	3	0.116
5	River distance	1/4	1/3	1/2	1	1	1	2	0.081
6	Vegetation cover	1/4	1/4	1/4	1/2	1	1	1	0.058
7	Aspect	1/10	1/4	1/4	1/3	1/2	1	1	0.044