Research Article

Evaluating the Rail-Based Multimodal Freight Transportation after HSR Entry in Yangtze River Delta Economics Zone

Table 4

The description of the comparison significance between indicators is introduced as Mu and Pereyra-Rojas [29].

Significance (i)Description

9Compared with j, indicator i is extremely important
7Compared with j, indicator i is very strongly more important
5Compared with j, indicator i is strongly more important
3Compared with j, indicator i is moderately more important
1Compared with j, indicator i is equally important
2, 4, 6, 8The intermediate values between the two adjacent judgments, used when a compromise is needed