ASSESSING THE EFFICIENCY OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL AND ECONOMIC MECHANISM FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSPORT AND LOGISTICS SYSTEMS: A MULTI-CRITERIA APPROACH

The article develops a multi-criteria economic and mathematical model for assessing the efficiency of the organizational and economic mechanism governing the development of a transport and logistics system in a landlocked industrial economy. Unlike outcome-oriented international indices, the model examines the internal structure of the mechanism: it normalizes heterogeneous indicators to a common [0, 1] scale, aggregates them into four functional blocks using weights derived through the analytic hierarchy process, and calculates an integral efficiency coefficient, a functional imbalance index, a stability coefficient, and an adaptability coefficient. A four-level interpretation scale (crisis, constraining, satisfactory, and high) links each level to a management regime and identifies the binding constraint based on the weakest-link principle. Applied to Uzbekistan's data for 2020–2025, the model yields an integral coefficient of 0.413, an imbalance index of 0.233, and a stability coefficient of 0.767. The infrastructure and technology block (0.253) is identified as the binding constraint. Three scenarios through 2030 indicate that the integral coefficient could reach 0.468, 0.628, or 0.792, depending on the proportion of the gap relative to the normative level closed in each block.