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This article constructs an environmental logistics performance index (ELPI) for assessing the overall performance in green transportation and logistics practices of 112 countries. The index is measured by logistics performance index (LPI), CO₂ emissi...

In 2016, Saudi Arabia published its vision for the year 2030, which is based on the Kingdom’s geographical, financial, social and religious potentials. Developing the logistics sector and improving the Kingdom’s ranking in the World Bank&...

Background: Amid rising trade, urbanization, and carbon emissions in MENA countries, sustainable logistics faces major constraints. This study develops an enhanced Green Logistics Performance Index (GLPI) using min-max normalization and Principal Com...

This study examines the Logistics Performance Index (LPI) rankings developed by the World Bank from a methodological perspective and proposes an alternative decision support framework. LPI serves as an interactive tool that helps countries identify c...

Logistics infrastructure plays a strategic role in urban-regional connectivity, territorial development, supply chain integration, and the spatial organization of freight flows in emerging economies. However, the socioeconomic and territorial perform...

Estimating the accurate evaluation of product lifetime performance has always been a hot topic in manufacturing industry. This paper, based on the lifetime performance index, focuses on its evaluation when a lower specification limit is given. The pr...

Palm oil is one of the most traded vegetable oils in the global market due to its versatile usage and having a lower price than competitor products. Trade is related to logistics performance as it connects the exporter and importer countries; thus, i...

Logistics performance is an important determinant of economic growth. The present study investigates the moderating role of logistics performance of the logistic infrastructure on economic growth in developing countries. We employ the World Bank comp...

This study examines whether national digital technological readiness moderates the relationship between national sustainability performance and supply chain logistics performance. Using a panel of 157 countries across six biennial waves from 2010 to...

This study presents a novel approach to assess countries’ relative logistics performance differentials and identifies the underlying drivers using a data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach. The findings offer strategic insights and provide nat...

Global manufacturing economies have faced logistics performance challenges in recent decades. This study investigates the influence of industrialization, environmental technology, trade openness, foreign direct investment, and economic growth on the...

This paper investigates the economic relationship between logistics performance and export competitiveness based on the iceberg transport cost model and conducts further empirical analysis according to China’s LPI. It finds that the higher the...

This study investigates the impact of logistics performance on international trade by comparing Lithuania and Turkey within a gravity model framework. Using a bilateral panel dataset of 984 observations covering trade with 26 European Union member st...

Background: This study develops the Logistics Sustainability Kuznets Curve (LSKC) to examine whether the relationship between logistics performance and transport carbon intensity changes across levels of logistics capability. Methods: An unbalanced p...

The Logistics Performance Index (LPI) is a widely used benchmarking tool for assessing national logistics capabilities. However, its role in sustainability-oriented research remains unclear. This study reconceptualizes the LPI as a multidimensional a...

Today, the increase in competition with globalization has caused logistics to gain importance, with international trade as one of its basic elements. Developments in the transportation and logistics sector affect economic growth through their effects...

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), launched in 2013, is one of the most ambitious global projects of the 21st century, aiming to enhance connectivity and trade between Asia and Europe. Within this framework, the New Eurasia Land Bridge Economic Corr...

This study investigates logistics convergence, financial development, and trade competitiveness in 19 Mediterranean countries over the period 2007–2022. Unlike previous studies that primarily examine average logistics performance across countri...

Background: Logistics has become a key driver of global economic production. This study investigates the role of logistics in global economic production by presenting a novel theoretical framework that integrates logistics performance into traditiona...

This study investigates the complex relationship between the performance of logistics and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance, drawing upon the multi-methodological framework of combining econometrics with state-of-the-art machine...

Sustainable urban rail management requires directing limited budgets to sections where maintenance can most effectively extend asset life. Existing track performance evaluation systems guide maintenance priorities, but cost-effectiveness-based indice...

This study examines associations between national labor market gender participation parity, the international trade logistics environment, and national transport carbon intensity. The measures describe distinct domains; they do not directly measure w...

This study examines the determinants of bilateral trade asymmetries between Türkiye and its three main EU partners—Germany, Bulgaria, and Romania—over 2002–2024. Within the gravity framework, bilateral symmetry in trade data im...

This study investigates how Chinese ownership in European ports affects trade flows between China and Eurozone countries, set against the backdrop of recent global economic disruptions that have emphasized the crucial role of maritime trade and port...

The development of Green Transport Corridors (GTCs) is an important strategy to help a region achieve more sustainable solutions. When such GTCs are implemented, multimodal supply chains and environmentally-friendly alternatives for freight transport...

Climate change impacts, the resulting spatiotemporal changes, and growing uncertainty exert pressure on city leaders and policy makers to create climate adaptive development strategies worldwide. This article introduces climate urbanism as a new deve...

Advanced air mobility (AAM) is a sustainable aviation initiative to deliver cargo and passengers in urban and regional locations by electrified drones. The widespread expectation is that AAM adoption worldwide will help to reduce pollution, reduce tr...

International transport corridors (ITCs) are intricate logistical networks essential for global trade flows. The effective modeling of these corridors provides invaluable insights into optimizing the transport system. However, existing approaches hav...

The purpose of this study is to investigate relationships between national logistics performance and dimensions of sustainability. A series of hypotheses are developed and tested using regression analysis of secondary data. The sources of data are th...

This study investigates the systemic interrelations between logistics performance, environmental performance, sustainable development progress, and institutional governance. While the existing literature often examines these dimensions separately, th...

Based on Stackelberg’s master–slave game theory and green index decision-making conditions, this paper studies the benefit coordination of a supply chain network composed of a business flow network and logistics network, discusses the dec...

This study aimed to evaluate the performance of 11 obesity-related indices, including body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, waist-to-height ratio, waist–hip ratio, a body shape index, abdominal volume index, body adiposity index, body rou...

This benchmarking study situates Jordan’s trade indicators relative to comparators (Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates) with descriptive analysis. Using indicators for port competitiveness, geopolitical stability, logist...

The general goal of waste management is to conserve resources and avoid negative environmental impacts. This paper deals with the optimization of logistics processes at an underground waste storage site by means of solving scheduling issues and reduc...

As an innovative retailing mode, “new retailing” is making the distinction between physical and virtual commerce obsolete, where offline stores attract customers and supply them with the opportunity of experiences, and online stores provi...

With the impact of globalization, logistics has evolved beyond mere goods transportation to become an indispensable component of international trade and a strategic force that provides a competitive advantage. Through logistics companies with strong...

Coal and gas outburst accidents seriously threaten mine production safety. To further improve the scientific accuracy of coal and gas outburst risk prediction, a system software (V1.2.0) was developed based on the C/S architecture, Visual Basic devel...

Soybean is one of the main sources of protein directly and indirectly in human nutrition, and it is highly dependent on logistics to connect country growers and international markets. Although recent studies deal with the impact of logistics on inter...

Economic globalization promotes industrial division and forms a large stream of products between countries all over the world, which leads to serious environmental problems. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between green logis...

Logistics performance measurement is shifting from perception-based country rankings toward operational indicators that capture connectivity, movement speed, and delay conditions. This study examines how the transition from the legacy Logistics Perfo...

This study aims to develop a financial stability index for the Pakistani financial sector by using the financial reports for the period of 2001–2011. Specifically, we constructed three different classes of indices in this study based on a varia...

Background and Objectives: Acute mesenteric ischemia (AMI) lacks reliable prognostic biomarkers, and the prognostic performance of the C-reactive protein–albumin–lymphocyte (CALLY) index in this population has not been previously evaluate...

The main aim of this study was to compare and evaluate the performance of fractal dimension as input data in the landslide susceptibility mapping of the Baota District, Yan’an City, China. First, a total of 632 points, including 316 landslide p...

Background: Although many inflammatory–metabolic and anthropometric markers are used to diagnose hypertension among adults, there is little research on how these markers can be combined to detect prevalent hypertension in the Saudi population....

Logistics is significantly impacted by quality/quantity issues associated with data collection and data sharing restrictions. Nonetheless, public data from national entities and internet-of-things (IoT) solutions enable the development of integrated...

This paper examines how logistics performance conditions the relationship between trade openness, economic growth and per capita CO₂ emissions in Mediterranean economies. Using an unbalanced panel of 20 countries over the period 2007–2022, we c...

This study introduces the LESG index, a composite analytical framework designed to assess the structural coherence of national development systems by integrating logistics capability, governance quality, and sustainability performance. Traditional de...

A Multi-airport Logistics System (MLS) involves the logistics development of multiple airports in an urban agglomeration. Calculating spatial differentiation in MLS and examining its characteristics have theoretical and practical value. Based on MLS,...

Background/Objectives: Hospital readmissions are a key quality metric impacting both patient outcomes and healthcare costs. Traditional logistic regression models, including the LACE index (Length of stay, Admission type, Comorbidity index, and recen...

Background: Growing disparities in development, governance, and logistics performance across countries pose challenges for global policymaking and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) monitoring. This study proposes a classification of 137 countries ba...