Title: Performance measurement in intermodal freight transport systems: literature review and research agenda

Authors: Hamid Saeedi; Bart Wiegmans; Behzad Behdani

Addresses: Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands ' Provincie Noord-Holland, Netherlands ' USN School of Business, Department of Business, Strategy and Political Science, University of South-Eastern Norway, Kongsberg, Norway

Abstract: Performance measurement plays a key role in developing appropriate strategies and evaluating the achievement of objectives in an Intermodal Freight Transport System. This paper provides a critical and systematic review of the existing literature on this topic. The review is structured around dominant methodologies for performance measurement applied to different freight transport sub-domains, i.e., railway, inland waterway, port and maritime as well as their advantages/disadvantages. We further discuss the limitations of existing methods and applications, leading to several important knowledge and implementation gaps that require further research in the field.

Keywords: performance measurement; data envelopment analysis; stochastic frontier analysis; intermodal freight transport; efficiency measurement.

DOI: 10.1504/WRITR.2022.123098

World Review of Intermodal Transportation Research, 2022 Vol.11 No.1, pp.1 - 52

Received: 15 Jul 2021
Accepted: 06 Feb 2022
Published online: 26 May 2022 *

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