Abstract:

Proper heavy vehicle selection is an extremely important issue for international freight transportation companies in an aspect of operational efficiency and performance. Effectivity of transportation activities depends on proper vehicle and equipment selection mostly. In addition to that, heavy vehicle selection is a process, which was affected by many factors and it is not possible to succeed depending on only personal judgments and intuitional approaches of decision-makers. Therefore, in a systematic and structural perspective, evaluation of heavy vehicle selection process by using the multi-criteria decision-making methodologies can provide an opportunity for selection of proper and the best heavy vehicle. Within this scope, a hybrid multi-criteria decision-making model, which integrated the AHP, Entropy, and TOPSIS method is proposed in order to use in the selection process of the heavy vehicle, which is used in the international freight transportation activities by logistics companies. It İs foreseen that the obtained results by using the selected model can be useful for logistics companies, other parties of logistics processes as well as researchers who work İn the academic field.

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