Evaluation of Highway Transportation Efficiency in Wuhan Urban Circle Based on DEA

With the speeding up of the construction in Wuhan Urban Circle (WUC), improving the efficiency of the highway transportation becomes more and more important. In this paper, We applies the C2R model of data envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate the highway transportation efficiency of WUC's 9 cities in 2006, and uses the SPSS software to clustering analyze the 9 cities. And then further uses DEA cross-evaluation method to order all cities. The result shows that the WUC's highway transportation efficiency is relatively high as a whole; and the DEA ineffective cities all exist input redundancy and output deficiency problem, except Xianning the other cities all represent scales merit increasing. According to the evaluation and analysis, we make proposals and take measures on improving the efficiency.