Sustainable Development of Road Transport in the EU: Multi-Criteria Analysis of Countries’ Achievements

Indre Siksnelyte-Butkiene () and Dalia Streimikiene
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Indre Siksnelyte-Butkiene: Institute of Social Sciences and Applied Informatics, Kaunas Faculty, Vilnius University, Muitines 8, LT-50229 Kaunas, Lithuania
Dalia Streimikiene: Institute of Social Sciences and Applied Informatics, Kaunas Faculty, Vilnius University, Muitines 8, LT-50229 Kaunas, Lithuania

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 21, 1-25

Abstract: One quarter of global energy consumption goes towards meeting transport needs. In Europe, the share of energy for transport is much higher and accounts for about a third. Therefore, it is very important to monitor the sustainable development and progress of the sector. This paper seeks to develop a framework for the sustainability assessment of road transport in EU countries and to evaluate the countries’ achievements in the last decade. The research adheres to the provision that the developed framework should be easily applied in future studies. Therefore, significant attention is paid to the selection of indicators and their availability, as well as the selection of the research instrument itself. The multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) technique TOPSIS has been applied for calculations and countries’ ranking, in order to compare countries’ achievements in the last decade (2010–2020). The last ten years’ analysis allows us to identify the direction of individual countries in developing road transport.

Keywords: road transport; sustainable transport development; multi-criteria decision-making; TOPSIS; energy crisis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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