Highlights Transportation energy efficiency is newly defined. A new model—three-stage virtual frontier DEA is firstly proposed. Thirty Chinese PARs’ transportation energy efficiencies are evaluated. Transport structure and management measures have important impacts.

    Abstract In this paper, transportation energy efficiency is newly defined and its inputs and outputs are obtained through literature review. Labor input, capital input and energy input are selected as the inputs, passenger turnover volume and freight turnover volume are defined as the outputs. A new model—three-stage virtual frontier DEA (three-stage virtual frontier Data Envelopment Analysis) is proposed to evaluate transportation energy efficiencies. The case of thirty Chinese PARs (provincial administrative regions) from 2003 to 2012 is applied to verify its rationality. In the three-stage virtual frontier DEA, the reference DMU (decision-making unit) set and the evaluated DMU set are two different sets so that it can distinguish the DEA efficient DMUs. And in the evaluating process, the reference DMU set remains unchanged to assure its results more reasonable than Super DEA model. The results show that transport structure and management measures have important impacts on transportation energy efficiency.


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    Title :

    The evaluation of transportation energy efficiency: An application of three-stage virtual frontier DEA


    Contributors:
    Cui, Qiang (author) / Li, Ye (author)


    Publication date :

    2014-01-01


    Size :

    11 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English