Analysis of The Influence of Social, Economic, and Infrastructure Factors on Country Logistics Performance

Abstract

一個國家的物流績效攸關國家的競爭力，所以它是衡量與追蹤物流績效的重要關鍵。世界銀行物流績效指數(LPI)是由世界銀行制定以衡量每一個國家的物流績效指數。然而，LPI主要來自調查與專家學者評估，故難以評估LPI指標的改善對提昇物流服務品的影響。本研究基於社會、經濟、實體設施等易被追蹤與評估之因子以提出一個新架構，進而用以量測一個國家物流的績效。研究結果顯示本研究所提出之評估架構，其預測結果與世界銀行LPI指標所量測的分數一致。因此，本研究所提出之評估架構可被用來評估一個國家的物流績效，且本研究所確立的影響因子可提供未來相關政府單位進行政策施行之決策輔助參考。

The performance of a country’s logistics, is critical to its competitiveness. Therefore, it is of utmost important to measure and track the performance. Logistics Performance Index (LPI) is an index developed by the World Bank to measure a country’s logistics performance worldwide. Nevertheless, because LPI is based on surveys and assessment from experts. It is hard for countries to measure the effect of improvement of LPI indicators in terms to increase their logistics quality. One of the goals of this study is to develop another scheme to measure the quality of a country’s logistics based on social, economic, and infrastructure factors which is geared towards enhancing the performance of logistics that can be tracked and compared more easily. Our results show that the predictions based on the scheme that developed in this study is consistent with the World Bank’s LPI scores and can be used to evaluate country’s logistics performance hence it is promising to develop policy implications based on the factors identified in this study.