A survey of optimum strategies to urban planning and management by using TOPSIS method (Case study: Cities of Mazandaran Province, Iran)

Abstract

One of the most important factors in quality improvement of transportation, communication, accommodation, utilities is urban infrastructures development. Certainly, with the intention of achieving the goal, approaches to urban infrastructures management must be ranked by Scientific and logical evaluation and calculation. This paper presents evaluation of governmental,  private,  and  public–private  partnership (PPP) approaches  based on efficient  performance of  Mazandaran’s cities as a Multiple Attribute Decision (MADM) problem by the TOPSIS for prioritization of effective indicators to rank the approaches, so it increase urban management system efficiency in Mazandaran’s cities.