A new road is to be built to bypass a busy country town and two possible routes, referred to as North and South, are under consideration. The choice between these routes will be based on three attributes: construction cost $($Cost$),$ environmental impact $($Environment$),$ and the average travel time it will take to drive along the new route $($Time$).$

When asked to compare the attributes, the decision makers agree on the following.

Environment is $$weakly more important$($rating $3)$ than Cost and $$strongly more important$($rating $5)$ than Time

Cost is $$between weakly and strongly more important$($rating $4)$ than Time.

The decision makers$$ relative preferences for the two routes are then compared on each

attribute.

On Environment the South route is $$strongly preferred$($rating $5)$ to the North.

On Cost the North is $$weakly preferred$($rating $3)$ to the South

On Time the North is $$very strongly preferred$($rating $7)$ to the South.

Given this information and using AHP, which is the preferred route?

Please show your work $/$ reasoning in arriving at the solution. Upload any plots $/$ tables $/$ files as your response.