**5. Results**

Route selection and evaluation are very important in terms of the success of metropolitan municipality and urban planning. The objective of this paper is to present an integrated different approach for effective route decisions and determination of the suitable route. Therefore, an integrated

approach of ANP- TOPSIS is proposed in order to select the best route and define the relation among the criteria used to select the best route. Urban transportation planning is an important decision for planners and it is the most important activity for managers. Therefore, there are a lot of criteria effecting this selection process. All this criterion should be evaluated with various dimensions. In this study, for 8 route alternatives, four criteria and 15 sub-criteria were evaluated, and the model solution was established with multi-criteria decision-making. Finally, the most suitable routes were ranked. Results show that application of the ANP-TOPSIS methods together provide some important advantages such as the establishing relationship, evaluation of the various factors at the same time and use of tangible and intangible criteria.

In other studies, for the transportation planners and other public institutes in other decision process, the ANP-TOPSIS integrated model can help transport infrastructure project or project selection/ranking. The other MCDM methods such as analytic hierarchy process (AHP), VIKOR (Vise Kriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje), AHP-TOPSIS, or fuzzy methods can be used, and this model can be also used in the other urban planning processes related to decision-making. In addition, group decision-making approaches can be developed using various MCDM techniques such as AHP or PROMETHEE for selection of transportation projects or route selection in public institutions. Besides, this study can be extended via a mathematical programming-decision model for transport infrastructure projects with resource constraints such as budget.

Public participation in transport planning is important factor for society and it is, therefore, emerging as a basic component in the decision process for rationality [4]. We don't deal with public participation factors in this study. So, in future studies, alternative projects or routes can be evaluated to take account of factors and criteria such as public participation and "community acceptance". The community acceptance can be researched with surveys. Survey-based MCDM techniques can be used to reproduce a participatory process where territorial communities acts as key stakeholders.

**Author Contributions:** Data curation, M.H.; Methodology, M.H. and T.E.; Writing—review & editing, M.H. and T.E. **Funding:** No funding was received.

**Acknowledgments:** Special thanks to Ankara Metropolitan Municipality and to Faik D˙IKMEN for allowing us to use their data and to M. Abdullah GENÇER for providing the necessary information regarding his experiments.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest regarding the publication of this paper.
