Title: Evaluating green efficiency of China's road freight transport: combining super-SBM-undesirable and fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis

Authors: Li Zhang; Jiali Yu

Addresses: Department of Economic Management, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, 300457, China ' Department of Economic Management, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, 300457, China

Abstract: Road transportation is the transportation industry's primary source of carbon emissions. It is hard to effectively rank the multiple decision units for carbon emission reduction decisions. To tackle this problem, we construct a super-SBM-undesirable for multiple decision units, combined with fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis to explore high-efficiency development pathways. Experimental validation was conducted to determine the road freight efficiency in China from 2017 to 2019 and found that the regional differences are significant due to technological efficiency. Carbon dioxide emissions do have a detrimental influence on the efficiency of road freight transport.

Keywords: efficiency evaluation; road freight transport; carbon dioxide; SBM-DEA; FS-QCA.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSTL.2024.144021

International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics, 2024 Vol.19 No.4, pp.482 - 504

Received: 21 Feb 2023
Accepted: 22 Sep 2023
Published online: 21 Jan 2025 *

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