Evaluation Method for Infrastructural Asset Management Based on Multidimensional Scaling

Abstract

Infrastructure facilities perform multifaceted functions and have a wide variety of effects upon our society. For coordinating management policies and being accountable to the public, a public manager must comprehend multiple functions of public facilities and various opinions expressed by a lot of stakeholders. This paper proposes the evaluation method for infrastructural asset management using multidimensional scaling. The methodology makes clear differences in people's opinion and viewpoints and shows relative ranking of projects' achievements. The methodology presented in this paper was applied to a case example of highway facility management. As a result, it was shown that this method can specify a conflict among stakeholders' viewpoints. In addition, the method can be utilized to verify the validity of evaluation items.