Assessing container terminals’ efficiency from the sustainable development perspective: The BWM-GRA-SBM model

IF 6.3 2区工程技术 Q1 ECONOMICS

Transport Policy Pub Date : 2024-12-27 DOI:10.1016/j.tranpol.2024.12.014

Wen-Kai Hsu , Show-Hui Huang , Thu Ngo Ngoc Le , Nguyen Tan Huynh , Ding-Ji Wang

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Abstract

The paper aims at assessing container terminals' (CTs) efficiency from the sustainable development perspective by the BWM-GRA-SBM model. Its originalities include (1) assessing CTs' efficiency from three sustainable dimensions, viz., economic, environmental, and social ones, (2) proposing the modality movement approach to figure out the amount of CO2 emitted by CTs, (3) adopting the integration of the Best-Worst Method (BWM) and Grey Relational Analysis (GRA) to estimate job dissatisfaction indexes (JDIs) representing the social pillar of sustainable development, (4) using the Slacks-Based Measure (SBM) to estimate CTs' efficiency with considering CO2 emissions and JDIs as undesirable outputs, (5) taking CTs in the port of Kaohsiung (the Taiwanese-CTs case) as an empirical study to validate the model. The proposed research framework can contribute a methodological reference towards the pertinent research in assessing CTs' efficiency from a sustainable viewpoint. Further, the empirical results can provide managerial information for container terminal operators (CTOs) in the port of Kaohsiung to improve their CTs’ operating efficiency.

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Transport Policy Multiple-

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12.10

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10.30%

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282

期刊介绍： Transport Policy is an international journal aimed at bridging the gap between theory and practice in transport. Its subject areas reflect the concerns of policymakers in government, industry, voluntary organisations and the public at large, providing independent, original and rigorous analysis to understand how policy decisions have been taken, monitor their effects, and suggest how they may be improved. The journal treats the transport sector comprehensively, and in the context of other sectors including energy, housing, industry and planning. All modes are covered: land, sea and air; road and rail; public and private; motorised and non-motorised; passenger and freight.