Review article

The traditional methodological approach to determining the efficiency of applying specialized trucks involves comparing the efficiency of specialized and flatbed (general-purpose) rolling stock. This method focuses on solving local problems of optimizing the perishable cargo transportation process, such as routing, rolling stock selection, and minimizing transportation costs. However, issues related to the mechanisms for applying a particular solution in the general system of organization of transportation of such goods are not sufficiently studied. The article proposes a method for determining the efficiency as a function of the ranking system in organizing the transportation of perishable goods, which consists in the following: the obtained structure of the values of the weighting coefficients (factor responses) will correspond to the state of maximum efficiency within the boundaries of the studied system and the adopted restrictions, in contrast to the traditional model, when the values of factor responses state the current state of the investigated process.