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Abstract: Purpose to introduce the status quo of Chinas
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.