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At the early stage of the technology development, this study adopted the Hierarchical Decision Model (HDM), which was created and developed by Dundar Kocaoglu and Tugrul Daim [24] to better understand and track decision. The HDM is a methodology to analyze and evaluate best fitting alternatives in order to accomplish a specific objective. It uses a multicriterion that flows into alternatives selection process. Our study applied the HDM into four levels, which were Objective, Perspectives, Criteria and Alternatives, that contributed to the best option for the main objective. The HDM used the judgment of experts to prioritize the important perspectives, criteria and alternatives through the pairwise comparison technique [24, 25]. Those perspectives and criteria were then weighed by these experts, who then evaluated and estimated the complex and complicated system to gain the best decision strategically. However, the results from the HDM provided inconsistent and disagreement ratios, which indicated how much their responses did not agree with each other.

As discussed above, the objective was to determine the best opportunity behind the meter transportation technologies to use for future summer peak V2G programs. As Figure 1 shows, the model was created based on the HDM analysis to accomplish the goal. The decision model is illustrated in Figure 1. This model was created through the HDM link website to collect data from the experts. The respondents did pairwise comparison through the link for all three perspectives and a separate comparison in each node among the criteria is seen in Figure 1.

Figure 1.The HDM in four levels.

Finally, the experts completed weighing the pairwise comparison of all the perspectives, criteria and potential alternatives. Then, their opinion is submitted to the model and contributed to the result as the best opportunity of technology options.