Study on the Priority of Blockchain Adoption to Railway System through AHP Method

Sumin Han, Jongwun Won, Tai-Woo Chang, Seok Lee

Abstract


Blockchain was proposed in 2007 and began to be applied to actual services soon afterward. The railway system covers railroad construction and railway services. Because of the public characteristics of the railway system, it is expected that significant advantages can be obtained through the introduction of blockchain. Many benefits can be gained by applying the blockchain to them, but it is impossible to apply the blockchain to every part immediately due to the limitations of time and resources. Therefore, it is necessary to derive services or functions to which the blockchain will be applied and to select the part of them first. Since there are various evaluation criteria to derive the priority of blockchain adoption, systematic consideration is required. In this study, AHP was applied to calculate weights for evaluation criteria and systematical evaluation. Through the results of this study, it is expected that it is possible to build a roadmap for a next-generation railway system.


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