posted on 2020-12-07, 14:03authored byDevendra Pathak, Ravi Shankar, Alok Choudhary
Stringent environmental norms and growing demands for energy-efficient and cost-effective freight
shipping have put organizations under immense pressure to consider sustainability aspects while
assessing their performance. Moreover, amid growing awareness about competitive priorities, it has
become prudent to understand how an organization’s sustainability performance is balanced against
competitive priorities. Therefore, this study attempts to develop an integrated performance
assessment framework (PAF) on the basis of competitive priorities for sustainable freight
transportation (SFT) systems. A unified approach consisting of fuzzy group decision-making, fuzzy
evidential reasoning approach, and expected utility concept is utilized to assess critical success factors
of SFT based on four competitive priorities. The applicability of the developed model is exhibited
through a case example, and sensitivity analysis is also performed to examine its robustness. This
competitive performance score based PAF would facilitate logistics professionals in selecting the
most competitive SFT system.
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Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2020.102663