The Importance-Weights Determination of the Safety Factors of Fishing Ports in Zhuhai via the AHP Method

摘要

The importance-weights determination (IWD) of the safety factors of fishing ports is a meaningful work, because it can be helpful for relevant departments to determine the focus of work and adopt proper measures. But it is an intrinsically complex process as well, for it relates to many fields (e.g., maritime transport management, port operations, etc.) with multiple criteria. In this paper, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method, a commonly used decision analysis method, is utilized to make the IWD of Zhuhai's fishing ports safety factors. The IWD problem is greatly simplified and more valid with the AHP method, and through the consistency verification, the result effectively indicates the prioritizing order of all the safety factors.