Ed Pohl, Heather Nachtmann and Richard Cassady (all from the Mack-Blackwell Rural Transportation Center at the University of Arkansas) have developed a method for assessing the vulnerabilities of rural transportation networks. Unlike the USDOT’s complex approach, this approach uses AHP to identify the most critical assets for further assessment.
The approach first assesses the importance of about 20 factors (or attributes) and then evaluates different assets (airports, highways, dams, etc.) on the important factors. The assets that have the largest combined scores are the most critical.
You can find their report online at http://ww2.mackblackwell.org/web/research/ALL_RESEARCH_PROJECTS/2000s/2085/MBTC-2085.pdf.
