Comprehensive Evaluation of the Efficiency of China’s Highway Freight Transport Platform Based on AHP-DEA

Abstract

This paper constructs the comprehensive evaluation index system of the efficiency of China’s highway freight platform from three aspects: vivid level, turnover and customer satisfaction of platform. By using AHP and DEA method, the selected 18 highway freight platforms are measured in terms of overall efficiency, pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency. The results show that the efficiency of the highway freight platform is generally low, and the significant difference exist among all 18 platforms. This is mainly related to financing capability, operating mode and platform service level there is a big relationship. By analyzing the differences between the freight platforms, some suggestions are given in the conclusion of this paper, e.g. innovating the business model, improving the financing ability of the enterprises and enhancing the three capabilities (service level, timeliness and cost) of the enterprise.

The National Social Science Fund: Symbiosis research on influence mechanism of logistics platform from the perspective of the user enterprise development (17BJY140); Major projects Chinese Logistics Association (2015CSLKT1-002): The integration model of China’s logistics industry platform; Jiangxi Provincial Academy of Social Sciences Key Project: Strategy of vertical integration of supply side reform under the background of the logistics platform (16GL02).