Coordination of public-private transport and sustainability measurement: A futuristic perspective in transport

Coordination in providing sustainable and effective transport services can be beneficial for both the public and private sectors. Although there is considerable research in each of public and private transport, the literature shows that research on public-private coordination is rare. Furthermore, performance measurement of publicprivate transport has been another less explored topic in transport systems. Based on these knowledge gaps, we make contributions to the transportation field by performance measurement and coordination of publicprivate transport within multimodal transport networks. In this paper, we model public-private transport networks by developing a novel network data envelopment analysis (NDEA) with some distinctive features. The model is built based on the directional distance function (DDF) and provides detailed insights into the sustainability and coordination of public-private transport networks operating in a supply chain. It also provides resource allocation among decision making units (DMUs).

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Coordination in providing sustainable and effective transport services is beneficial for both the public and private sectors. However, research on public-private coordination is rare and performance measurement of public-private transport is less explored. This paper contributes to the transportation field by developing a novel network data envelopment analysis (NDEA) model to measure the performance and coordination of public-private transport within multimodal transport networks. The model is based on the directional distance function (DDF) and provides insights into the sustainability and resource allocation among decision-making units (DMUs) in public-private transport networks.