The efficiency of transport companies is a very important factor for the companies themselves, as well as for the entire economic system. The main goal of this paper is to develop an integrated model for determining the efficiency of representative transport companies over a period of eight years. An original model was developed that includes the integration of DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis), PCA (Principal Component Analysis), CRITIC (Criteria Importance Through Inter criteria Correlatio), Entropy and MARCOS (Measurement Alternatives and Ranking according to the COmpromise Solution) methods in order to determine the final efficiency of transport companies based on 10 input–output parameters. The results showed that the most efficient business performance was achieved in the period 2014–2017, followed by slightly less efficient results. Then, extensive sensitivity analysis and comparative analysis were performed, which confirmed, to some extent, the previously obtained results. In the sensitivity analysis, 30 scenarios with changes in the weights of criteria were created, while the comparative analysis was carried out with three other MCDM (Multi-Criteria Decision-Making) methods. Finally, the rank correlation index was determined using the Spearman and WS (Wojciech Salabun) correlation coefficients. According to the final results, very efficient years can be separated that can be the benchmark for furthering the business.
In today transport technology processes, forklifts are one of the most important equipment for making handling operations in order to increase sustainability. They have a large influence in achieving the efficiency and sustainability of internal transport. According to the previous studies, and based on the current needs of the company, skills, and knowledge of managers, criteria, and alternatives for evaluating forklifts were created. The paper aims to create an integrated decision-making model to improve the company's technological processes. The objective CRITIC (Criteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation) approach was used to determine the criteria weights which are a combination of economic, technological, technical and environmental criteria. MARCOS (Measurement of Alternatives and Ranking according to Compromise Solution) approach was applied to select the most suitable forklift in transport technology processes. Results show that A4 forklift is the most suitable, and the A1 forklift is the worst variant. Apart from this, sensitivity and comparative analysis have been done in order to verify the initial results.
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