Introduction oncrete Pavement will be divided into four categories which include Continuous Reinforced Concrete Pavement (CRCP) ,Jointed Plain Concrete Pavement (JPCP), Prestressed Concrete Pavement (PCP) and Jointed Reinforced Concrete Pavement (JRCP). The Analytic Hierarchical Process is a structured technique for dealing with complex cisions. Rather than prescribing a correct decision, the AHP helps decision makers to find a solution that best suits their goal and their understanding ofthe problem. It is a process of organizing decisions that people are already dealing with, but trying to do in their heads. The AHP was developed by Thomas L. Saaty in the 1970s and has been extensively studied and refined since then. It provides a comprehensive and rational framework for structuring a decision problem, for representing and quantifying its elements, for relating those elements to overall goals, and for evaluating alternative solutions. Users of the AHP first decompose their decision problem into a hierarchy of more easily comprehended sub-problems, each of which can be analyzed independently. The elements of the hierarchy can relate to any aspect of the decision problem tangible or intangible, carefully measured or roughly estimated, wellor poorly-understood anything at all that applies to the decision at hand. Once the hierarchy is built, the decision makers systematically evaluate its various elements by comparing them to one another two at a time, with respect to their impact on an element above them in the hierarchy. In making the comparisons, the decision makers can use concrete data about the elements, or they can use their judgments about the elements' relative meaning and importance. It is the essence of the AHP that human judgments, and not just the underlying information, can be used in performing the evaluations. The AHP converts these evaluations to numerical values that can be processed and compared over the entire range of the problem. A numerical weight or priority is derived for each element of the hierarchy, allowing diverse and often incommensurable elements to be compared to one another in a rational and consistent way. This capability distinguishes the AHP from other decision making echniques. In the final step of the process, numerical priorities are calculated for each of the decision alternatives. These numbers represent the alternatives' relative ability to achieve the decision goal. Thus, they allow a straightforward consideration of the various courses of action. There are many examples of applications of fuzzy TOPSIS in literature (For instance: The evaluation of service quality [37]; Inter company comparison [13]; The applications inaggregate production planning [8], Facility location selection [12] and large scale nonlinear programming [17]. The modifications proposed in this paper can be implemented in all real world applications of Fuzzy TOPSIS.., Krishnamurthy et.al (1995,1996) used RS and GIS techniques to find a suitable position for artificial recharge of ground water in India. Also, they investigated the effects of geomorphologic and geological factors on the behavior of ground water and stated that there is a special unevenness in each area for recharge of ground water. Saraf and Choudhury (1998) used remote sensing capabilities in extracting different layers like land usage, geomorphology, vegetation, and their integration in GIS environment to determine the most suitable area for artificial recharge of C recharge of water tables by the watershed management is the main management technique. The purpose of this study is Application of The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for prioritize of concrete Pavement. # II. # Methods and Materials a) Research Methodology Discovering the main components and indicators of environmental sustainability in a comprehensive and organized way for evaluation and assessing sustainability in urban areas is multi-criteria techniques in the structure of integrated satiability assessment. Such technique helps the users to understand the results of integrated assessment like evaluating policy aims and applying these results in a system and proposed decision making for sustainable development. There are various tools in the field of multi-criteria decision making models which could help planners and policy makers to solve decision difficulties with respect to different and contradict opinions. These models are TOPSIS, SAW, LINMAP, AHP, ANP, ELECTRE, Linear Assignment, PROMETHEE I & II, Compromise Programming and other methods. In the present paper AHP was applied which is a concordance subset. Coordinate subset is the third subset of compensatory models in MADM which their output would be a set of ranks so that provide necessary coordination in a most proper way. This subset includes ELECTRE and linear assignment methods. The data and information of the research were collected by reviewing different documental proofs in the related offices. Also a field survey was conducted to gather main research data and information by completing questionnaires. Then this data analysis with AHP technique. # b) Theoretical Basis Analytic hierarchy process (AHP), as a very popular multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) tool, has been considerably criticized for its possible rank reversal phenomenon, which means changes of the relative rankings of the other alternatives after an alternative is added or deleted. If the weights or the number of criteria are also changed, then rankings might be reversed. Such a phenomenon was first noticed and pointed out by Belton and Gear [3], which leads to a long-lasting debate about the validity of AHP [6,8,17,26,32,34,35,38,39], especially about the legitimacy of rank reversal [7,15,23,21,25,29]. In order to avoid the rank reversal, Belton and Gear [3] suggested normalizing the eigenvector weights of alternatives using their maximum rather than their sum, which was usually called B-G modified AHP. Saaty and Vargas [25] provided a counterexample to show that B-G modified AHP was also subject to rank reversal. Belton and Gear [4] argued that their procedure was misunderstood and insisted that their approach would not result in any rank reversal if criteria weights were changed accordingly. Schoner and Wedley [28] presented a referenced AHP to avoid rank reversal phenomenon, which requires the modification of criteria weights when an alternative is added or deleted. Schoner et al. [30] also suggested a method of normalization to the minimum and a linking pin AHP (see also [31]), in which one of the alternatives under each criterion is chosen as the link for criteria comparisons and the values in the linking cells are assigned a value of one, with proportional values in the other cells. Barzilai and Golany [1] showed that no normalization could prevent rank reversal and suggested a multiplicative aggregation rule, which replaces normalized weight vectors with weight-ratio matrices, to avoid rank reversal. Lootsma [14] and Barzilai and Lootsma [2] suggested a multiplicative AHP for rank preservation. Vargas [36] provided a practical counterexample to show the invalidity of the multiplicative AHP. Triantaphyllou [33] offered two new cases to demonstrate that the rank reversals do not occur with the multiplicative AHP, but do occur with the AHP and some of its additive variants. Leung and Cao [10] showed that Sinarchy, a particular form of analytic network process (ANP), could prevent rank reversal. As an integrative view, the AHP now supports four modes, called Absolute, Distributive, Ideal and Supermatrix modes, respectively, for scaling weights to rank alternatives [15,20,22,27]. In the absolute mode, alternatives are rated one at a time and there is no rank reversal when new alternatives are added or removed. The distributive mode normalizes alternative weights under each criterion so that they sum to one, which does not preserve rank. The ideal mode preserves rank by dividing the weight of each alternative only by the weight of the best alternative under each criterion. The supermatrix mode allows one to consider dependencies between different levels of a feedback network. More recently, Ramanathan [18] suggested a DEAHP, which is claimed to have no rank reversal phenomenon. But in fact, it still suffers from rank reversal. Wang and Elhag suggested an approach in which the local priorities remained unchanged. So, the ranking among the alternatives would be preserved. # III. Applying Ahp Technique for Prioritize of Concrete Pavement a) Build the hierarchy In the first action, the hierarchical structure of the investigated subject mariot we traced (Figure 1). In this figure we have a 3 level hierarchy includes the objective, criteria and options we face. Turning to a subject or issue the hierarchical structure is the most important part of the hierarchical analytic can be considered, because in this episode with the complex issues and difficult process of hierarchical analysis to ( ) H A make it plain that the mind and human nature to match. In other words, the process of hierarchical analytic of complex issues through its analysis to the minor elements that are linked together to form a hierarchy and communicate the main objective of the issue with the lowest hierarchical level is specified in the form of easier comes in. To determine the coefficient of importance (weight) the following criteria and criteria for comparing two to two. For example, for the purpose of the issue is that the criteria for access to locate are aware of the importance of more residential density or criteria? The basis of judging the comparative quantification of this table (table 1) below that is based on it and according to the criteria for excellence to evaluate the severity of i relative to the criteria for aij, j. All the criteria are compared with each other mutually. In the process of analysis of the highest weight of the layer hierarchy is the effect that the highest awarded in the determination of the purpose. In other words, the information unit and weight criteria also had the highest based on the role it plays within the layers (Lopez and higher, 1991). After the formation of paired comparison matrix, relative weights of criteria can be calculated. There are different methods to calculated the relative weight based on paired comparison matrix. The most important ones are the "least squares method, least squares logarithmic method, special vector method and approximate method". The special vector method is the most accurate one. In this method, Wi is determine in the equation 12: : 20 A×W=?maxW In this equation, ? and W are special amount and special vector of paired matrix respectively. If dimensions of matrix were larger, calculation would be too time-consuming. So, to calculated ? the amount of Dtrmynal ?IA-matrix will be equaled to zero. Considering the greatest value of ? in equation ( 13), the amount of wi is calculated. (2001,315:Saaty). A-? max .I = 0 c) Preparation of matarishai and narmalizah analyzedinvoices Through the method of forming of weight to factors in the prevention of drug addiction and they set based on the importance of comparison-and narmalizah with matrix, rank 9 for parameters and options for 36order form. In the next step, please refer any one of the values of matrix comparison-together and each element in the comparison matrix-was divided up into its own column comparison-narmalizah matrices (1 relationship). Then the mean of the elements in each row of the matrix has been calculated in narmalizah the result will be the creation of weight vector (about 2). r ij = a ij ? a ij m i=1 W i = ? r ij n i=1 n d) The final rate-determining factors (priority and priority): For this Act of the maratbi dynasty which led to the composition of the principle vector of priority taking into consideration all of the judgment of the maratbi dynasty at all levels, shall be used (moriniujimanz et al., 2005; bertolini and bragilia, 2006). In other words, the final score of each set of coefficients of the sum combination prevention options and determine the parameters to be fitted (3 relationship). V H = ? W k (g ij ) n k=1 # e) Calculation of adjustment and unadjustment To calculate the rate adjustment, first must (A) compare the matrix-vector multiplication on the weight (W) to obtain an estimation of ?maxw . in the other hand A × W =max W. With the Division of the value of ? maxw in w calculated on the quantity of ymax. Then the amount of "relationship indicator (4) will be calculated, (ghodsi, 2008) I. I. = ? max ?n n ? 1 "unjustment # Discuss The analytical hierarchy procedure (AHP) is proposed by Saaty [19]. AHP was originally applied to uncertain decision problems with multiple criteria, and has been widely used in solving problems of ranking, selection, evaluation, optimization, and prediction decisions. The AHP method is expressed by a unidirectional hierarchical relationship among decision levels. The top element of the hierarchy is the overall goal for the decision model. The hierarchy decomposes to a more specific criterion in which a level of manageable decision criteria is met [12]. Under each criteria, sub-criteria elements related to the criterion can be constructed. The AHP separates complex decision problems into elements within a simplified hierarchical system [13]. The AHP usually consists of three stages of problem solving: decomposition, comparative judgment, and synthesis of priority. The decomposition stage aims at the construction of a hierarchical network to represent a decision problem, with the top level representing overall objectives and the lower levels representing criteria, subcriteria and alternatives. With comparative judgments, expert users are requested to set up a comparison matrix at each hierarchy by comparing pairs of criteria or sub-criteria. Finally, in the synthesis of priority stage, each comparison matrix is then solved by an eigenvector [17] method for determining the criteria importance and alternative performance. The purpose of the AHP enquiry in this paper was to construct a hierarchical evaluation system based on the resource attributes and entity reputation. The results of AHP method for prioritize of concrete Pavement showed in tables (3) to (13) and figures (2) to (4). # Conclusion Decision making problem is the process of finding the best option from all of the feasible alternatives. In almost all such problems the multiplicity of criteria for judging the alternatives is pervasive. That is, for many such problems, the decision maker wants to solve a multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. A survey of the MCDM methods has been presented by Hwang and Yoon [11]. The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is one of the extensively used multi-criteria decision-making methods One of the main advantages of this method is the relative ease with which it handles multiple criteria. In addition to this, AHP is easier to understand and it can effectively handle both qualitative and quantitative data. The use of AHP does not involve cumbersome mathematics. AHP involves the principles of decomposition, pairwise comparisons, and priority vector generation and synthesis. Though the purpose of AHP is to capture the expert's knowledge, the conventional AHP still cannot reflect the human thinking style. Therefore, fuzzy AHP, a fuzzy extension of AHP, was developed to solve the hierarchical fuzzy problems. In the fuzzy-AHP procedure, the pairwise comparisons in the judgment matrix are fuzzy numbers that are modified by the designer's emphasis . The 1![Figure 1 : the process of hierarchical analytic, making concrete superstructure hierarchy to select the best b) The following criteria and explaining the importance of the factor criteria:](image-2.png "Figure 1 :") ![findings of the research show that the Continuous Reinforced Concrete Pavement (CRCP) with (0/051) point promotes in first rank among 4 studied Pavements and thus it is the most appropriate Pavement , in contrast Jointed Plain Concrete Pavement (JPCP) with (0/15) point goes down to the last rank. Prestressed Concrete Pavement (PCP) and Jointed Reinforced Concrete Pavement (JRCP) with (0/015,0/017) points are located in next ranks. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for Prioritize of Concrete Pavement](image-3.png "") 1Numerical valuesPreferences (judging verbal)9Extremely preferred7Very strongly preferred5Strongly preferred3Moderately referred1Equally preferred? 2? 4? 68Intervals between strong preferences 2I. I. I. I. R. Quantity of I.I.R extracted from this table I. R. =n1234567...I.I.R000/580/91/121/241/32...IV. 3Year 20132 20 2 22Volume XIII Issue III Version I( ) HGlobal Journal of Human Social ScienceRelated Concrete to PavementpushdensityDensity ratesegregation contraction absorbationbleedingWijpush13567890.3972density0.331356780.2410© 2013 Global Journals Inc. (US) 4 5densityJRCPJPCPPCPCRCPWijJRCP13575570.0.5970.662 0.4410.318JPCP0.33157630.20.1990.221 0.4410.318PCPnormalization0.200.3317210.10.1190.074 0.0880.318CRCP0.140.200.331560.00.0850.044 0.0290.045sum1.684.53 11.3322.0011111Inconsistency rate: 0/01 (due to being less than 0/1 compatibility matrix indices are acceptable) 6 7 8Application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for Prioritize of Concrete PavementDensityrateCRCPPCPJRCPJPCPWijCRCP12790.5640.5700.5490.6670.474PCPYear 2013JRCP JPCP0.50 0.14 0.111 0.50 0.142 1 0.507 2 10.279 0.104normalization0.285 0.081 0.0630.275 0.137 0.0390.190 0.095 0.0480.368 0.105 0.0532 20 2 24sumVolume XIII Issue III Version I1.75 segregation CRCP 3.64 Inconsistency rate: 0/049 (due to being less than 0/1 compatibility matrix indices are acceptable) 10.50 19.00 1 1 1 1 1 PCP JRCP JPCP Wij CRCP 1 2 3 5 0.482 0.492 0.522 0.462 0.455( )PCP0.50123 0.2710.246 0.2610.3080.273Global Journal of Human Social ScienceJRCP JPCP sum contractionnormalization Inconsistency rate: 0/063 (due to being less than 0/1 compatibility matrix indices are acceptable) 0.33 0.50 1 2 0.157 0.164 0.130 0.154 0.182 0.20 0.33 0.50 1 0.088 0.098 0.087 0.077 0.091 2.03 3.83 6.50 11.00 1.00 1 1 1 1 PCPCRCPJRCPJPCPWij normalizationCRCP17890.600.725 0.847 0.4960.360PCP0.141780.240.104 0.121 0.4340.320JRCP0.13 0.14170.120.091 0.017 0.0620.280© 2013 Global Journals Inc. (US)H 9 10 11criteriaDensitycontractionpushdensityratesegregationabsorbationbleedingoptions( Wij)( Wij)( Wij)( Wij)( Wij)( Wij)( Wij)Figure 2 : The weight matrix of option according to criteriat 120.80.6CRCP0.4JRCP0.2JPCPJPCP0PCPCRCPoptionpush0.059 0.0340.021CriteriaobjectWijdensity density rate0.0950.397push density Density rate0.397 0.241 0.15segregation contraction0.15segregation0.095absorbationcontraction absorbation0.059 0.034bleeding0.241bleeding0.021Figure 3 : The weight matrix of criteria according tooptionTable 13 : Points and RanksPavementtypeCRCPJRCPPCPJPCPpoint0/0510/0380/0170/015rankfirstsecondthirdfourth ( )H 20 2 19Abstract- © 2013 Global Journals Inc. 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