Application of indicator in factor analysis on transport energy consumption

DOI

10.2991/iceep-16.2016.152How to use a DOI?

Keywords

sustainability; transport; indicator; energy consumption

Abstract

As the energy issue is getting more and more serious with the economy development of the world, the research on the issue of transport and logistics sustainability is becoming more and more popular for researchers all around. For one respect, the restriction of energy consumption in transport sector for logistics is crucially important to a certain extent. There are many ways for analyzing the factors of the superfluous energy consumption in transport to give reasonable interpretation for the incentives of it. In recent years, factor analysis relating method such as decomposition analysis and data envelopment analysis are used in literatures in order to scratch the principal factor that leads to the consumption. However, it remains a problem that why the very factors are selected for the analysis instead of others, and there is no convincing evidence given by the analyzers. In this paper, we decide to use the method of indicator analysis rather than generally used factor analysis to make the analysis afterwards more reasonable and give application of the method. Indicator analysis considers the possible factor to be candidate indicator and evaluate them in advance based on the criteria of indicator selection. The criteria are developed for the application in the transport domain and classified into three categories which named representation, operation and policy application. The scoring criteria for evaluation are also given in detail in order to get impartial result.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Jian Jiang
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DA  - 2016/11
TI  - Application of indicator in factor analysis on transport energy consumption
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 5th International Conference on Energy and Environmental Protection (ICEEP 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 874
EP  - 877
SN  - 2352-5401
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