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

Abstract

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 public-private 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 public-private 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).