Performance measurement in intermodal freight transport systems: literature review and research agenda. (24th May 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Saeedi, Hamid; Wiegmans, Bart; Behdani, Behzad
• Is Part Of: World review of intermodal transportation research. Volume 11:Number 1(2022)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 52
• Publication Date: 2022-05-24
• Subjects: performance measurement -- data envelopment analysis -- stochastic frontier analysis -- intermodal freight transport -- efficiency measurement; Containerization -- Research -- Periodicals; Transit, International -- Research -- Periodicals; Freight and freightage -- Management -- Periodicals; 387.5442068
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1749-4729

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.