Özet:

Due to the many advantages of rail cargo transportation, it has continued to be an important part of logistics services for many years, with fixed shipping times, safety, traceability and other shipping methods being preferred. In this study, eight OECD members assessed the activities of rail cargo transport in the country. As the evaluation criteria, the number of companies, the line length (km), the amount of transport (ton), maintenance costs (euro) and infrastructure investments were addressed. The weights of these criteria have been obtained by the modest AHP method and the VIKOR method has been used to perform the ranking of the performance of the countries. The widespread AHP and VIKOR integrated method used in the study is a flexible method that can also be applied in different industries for various performance and performance assessments. According to the results obtained, the importance of the criteria is accordingly the amount of transportation (K3), the line length (K2), infrastructure investments (K5), maintenance costs (K4), the number of companies (K1) and the performance ranking of the countries is Poland-Sweden-Austria-Czech Republic-Turkey-Hungary-Finland-Slovakia.