Some corridors are efficient, which means that other landlocked countries can learn from these efficient corridors to improve their corridor services.
DEA is an effective analytical tool for corridors evaluation and can help decision-makers in finding practical solutions.
This study is the first efficiency study on transit transport corridors of landlocked African countries.
The results indicate the relevance of minimising trade costs to stimulate landlocked countries' exports. Swaziland was the most efficient corridor while the Central African Republic corridor was the least efficient throughout the monitored years. Two units (13.33%) are technically efficient (technical and scale efficiency) while four units (26.66%) are only purely technically efficient over the observed period. The results show that the average pure technical and scale efficiency scores are 90.89% and 37.13%, respectively. Three different types of DEA models were proposed and used to measure the relative efficiencies of transit transport using a 6-year data set (2008-2013) of some selected LLACs. We conducted a comparative performance efficiency analysis of transfer transport systems for LLACs' corridors. We used a data envelopment analysis (DEA) to examine the efficiency and performance of transport systems of landlocked African countries (LLACs). School of Management Science and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China Assessment of transit transport corridor efficiency of landlocked African countries using data envelopment analysis