Work

Evaluating the European transportation sector via energy and climate change mitigation perspectives

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Transportation is essential to a country's economic growth. However, it is one of the most energy-intensive processes, and its negative environmental consequences are expected to worsen with time. Without successful climate change mitigation measures, it is predicted that transportation's negative environmental consequences will worsen, accelerating global warming. Enhancing energy efficiency and fostering sustainable practices in transportation have become urgent priorities to mitigate climate change. It is essential to evaluate to what extent European Union (EU) countries perform efficiently in terms of transport sustainability. Hence, we use Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) and slack-based Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) tto evaluate the energy performance in the transportation sector of the EU. As per the analysis results, those countries with high Gross Domestic Product (GDP) levels, such as Germany, France, and Italy have performed better in both MCDM and DEA. Further, the outcomes of our study suggest that the EU members still have an opportunity for efficiency growth. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the rare studies that comparatively focus on the performance of the EU transport sector.

Source: Sustainable Futures

DOI: 10.1016/j.sftr.2025.100652

Authors: Fazıl Gökgöz, Engin Yalçın

Institutions: Ankara University, Fırat University

Language: English

Topic: Efficiency Analysis Using DEA

Subfield: Management Science and Operations Research

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Industry, innovation and infrastructure, Climate action, Affordable and clean energy, Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,340