Multi-Criteria-Based Optimization Model for Sustainable Mobility and Transport

Vit Malinovsky () and Tomas Subrt
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Vit Malinovsky: Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 165 00 Prague, Czech Republic
Tomas Subrt: Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 165 00 Prague, Czech Republic

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 11, 1-18

Abstract: This paper deals with problems of freight transport sustainability from the perspective of four key factors: greenhouse gas production, fossil fuel dependence, congestion, and accident rates. It is based on the results of the FreightVision project, in which the author participated as a researcher and member of the design team. The aim was to develop a set of 35 recommendations to serve as a tool for European Union decision-making in transport policy matters at the highest level. The developed measures were prioritized, and a list of individual recommendations was drawn up according to their potentials. Then, the set of measures was processed using multi-criteria analysis tools, and these results were compared with the original list using comparative analysis to identify differences between the two approaches. The contribution of this work is the development of a methodology for evaluating the traffic measures according to their priorities and, at the same time, the verification of the empirical results thus obtained with the results that were the output of the mathematical processing. This work fills a research gap in a similar problem area by working with specific measures systematically developed for the purposes of analysis; these results are used to formulate recommendations for the European Commission whose policy decisions should lead to an increased level of freight transport sustainability.

Keywords: freight transport; greenhouse gases; fossil fuels; transport congestion; fatalities; decision-making in transport policy; multi-criteria analysis; comparative analysis; weight totals method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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