A New Indicator for Measuring Efficiency in Urban Freight Transportation: Defining and Implementing the OEEM (Overall Equipment Effectiveness for Mobility)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

Thank you very much for your comments on our article, as this improves the article considerably. Your comments have been reviewed and changed, these changes are set out in the final document and also in the attached pdf where we have indicated what has been changed so that you can read it more directly.

Best regards.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

The paper presents a solution for measuring the efficiency of urban freight transportation and in this regard, the presented research is certainly relevant for the journal.

However, there are multiple issues with the presented concept and with the paper itself. First, the most essential part of the presented solution is that the driver has to enter data into the M5Stack device. The first natural question which arises is that how reliable this manual process can be? By intuition, one could easily think that there is a very high probability of inaccuracy in case of such a manual method, not to mention that it also takes away a relatively significant portion of the drivers working time. Now it is understandable that the presented solution is only a proof of concept, but still it would be highly useful if the authors would present at least a conceptual solution for automating the entire process. Besides, it would also be useful if the operation of the complete solution would be summarized in a more straightforward manner in both the abstract and in the introduction of the paper. Moreover, the literature review could also be expanded, as the field certainly has a very extensive literature. 

Finally, while the presented solution has multiple different components (the M5Stack device, the Pycharm based modeling and the visualization part), yet these sub-systems are described relatively briefly. Therefore, a more detailed description of the different components would be highly beneficial as well.

In the opinion of this reviewer, the paper can only be published if all of the previous issues are addressed (plus an extensive editing of the English language is also required).  

There are multiple issues with the use of the English language, both from the perspectives of clarity and grammar. Therefore, an extensive editing of the English language is required.

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

Thank you very much for your comments on our article, as this improves the article considerably. Your comments have been reviewed and changed, these changes are set out in the final document and also in the attached pdf where we have indicated what has been changed so that you can read it more directly.

Best regards.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 3 Report

To study the urban freight transportation’s impact on urban areas in relation to sustainability and habitability is a very interesting topic.  The authors proposed a KPI methodology implementation based on the triple bottom-line approach. However, the study in the manuscript lacks scientific value, and I advise the authors to present it to another lower level journal.

The grammar should be checked carefully.

Author Response

Dear reviewer,

In the attached file we present the answer to your comments.

Best regards.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

I would like to thank the authors for answering my previous comments and providing comprehensive replies. All the comments have been addressed satisfactorily and the paper has been enhanced greatly. I believe that the paper, now meets a good journal publication standard.

Moderate editing of English language required

Reviewer 2 Report

I accept the implementation of the proposed changes, however I would still recommend to check the English language once more, as there is still room for improvement in that regard. Besides of that, I accept the paper in present form.

A minor editing of the English language of the paper would still be required.