Quality assessment method for design solutions of automobile service station

Abstract

The continuous growth of the motorization level of the society and the dynamically changing vehicle and automobile service markets require appropriate development of the transport and automobile service infrastructure. The drastic changes in the vehicle design produce additional or new requirements to the infrastructure intended for the maintenance, service, repair and parking of vehicles. In accordance with these requirements the existing structures are retrofitted and new ones are designed and built in line with the already developed and approved designs. Due to requirements to the infrastructure and numbers of factors to be taken into consideration, the design, as a rule, have different solutions. Decision making involves several steps: formulation of a set of variants, search and selection of the preferable variant among the variants set. But this search is limited by time and computers capacities so the chosen variant is not always the optimal or rational one. The search procedure has become more complicated by parameters and requirements expressed qualitatively. The quality assessment method for the design solutions allows to reduce the search area, and thus to scan considerably greater numbers of variants and to find the best solution. This paper represents a multi-attribute method that allows to assess the quality of design solutions for automobile service station layout and to choose the best solution out of the suggested set.