Evaluation of the Design Alternatives of Emergency Bridge by Applying Analytic Network Process (ANP)

The article introduces the basic process that uses analytic network process (ANP) to design alternative evaluation of emergency bridge. ANP is a better evaluation method for bridge designs and is now widely used in decision making with dependence and feedback. ANP considers all factors, estimates the relative influence from the factors, values factors with ratio scales from 1 to 9, makes pairwise comparisons on factors, and synthesizes to obtain overall results. An ANP case is conveniently computed by super decisions ANP software. The computed results show that the ANP is suitable for evaluating the design alternatives for emergency bridges.