Site Selection of SEZ-based Freight Village: A Case Study of Border Provinces in Thailand
Keywords:
Freight Village, Special Economic Zone (SEZ), Fuzzy Set, Fuzzy AHP, PROMETHEEAbstract
The cross-border trade seems to be one of the solid choices to stimulate Thailand’s trade on account of the world economy’s turmoil. In response, the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) situated in the selected provinces have been emerging as areas of offering certain incentives to a variety of businesses. With routine movement and storage of goods in SEZ, however, it is crucial to take a Freight Village into account. A Freight Village is typically defined as the hub of a specific area where all activities of goods are related to transport, logistics and distribution. Hence, site selection of Freight Village was examined in this study. Based upon Multi-criteria Decision Making (MCDM) of alternatives, the combined fuzzy AHP-PROMETHEE methodology was proposed. Fuzzy AHP was used to determine weights of five criteria along with 12 sub-criteria, while PROMETHEE was applied to rank eight border provinces from the best to worst site. A result shows that Songkhla is the most appropriate province to locate a Freight Village.
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