Abstract
In this paper, a performance analysis of the US motor carriers is carried out from the perspectives of a shipper and a motor carrier. Various efficiency measures are estimated using Data Envelopment Analyses (DEAs) with publicly available financial data on a representative sample of 21 publicly listed motor carriers. The analysis reveals that the average efficiencies of US motor carriers have gradually increased during the study period; however, a majority of the carriers are scale-inefficient, which demonstrates potential savings through benchmarking input targets.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 227-245 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 2012 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Management Information Systems
- Management Science and Operations Research
- Information Systems and Management
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