Abstract: Purpose to introduce the status quo of China’s transportation development and performance evaluation of transportation industry and to construct an improved integrated evaluation model. Methodology The demonstration procedures and results are shown through the analysis of the most eminent transport corporations in the Chinese transportation industry. First, Analytic Hierarchy Process, Gray Relation Analysis and Factor Analysis are used in the model. After the test, an integrated evaluation model is conducted based on an Arithmetic Average Model, Borda Model and Copeland Model. The optimal model is selected based on the Spearman Rank Correlation coefficients. Findings The results showed that the benchmarking companies were Tielong Logistics in the railway transport, Beijing Media in the waterway transport and Channel Share in the road transport. The financial performances of the listed companies in road transport were the best. Originality We proposed an integrated evaluation method that improved the evaluation methodology and solved the problem of the one-sidedness in an individual evaluation method and the inconsistency in the multiple evaluation methods. The prior test and the back test of the integrated method indicated that the entire methodology was consistent.