Against the background that the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta has been elevated to a national strategy, the logistics development level of cities in the Yangtze River Delta is directly related to regional industrial synergy, resource allocation efficiency, and the effectiveness of high-quality economic development. Based on the core connotation of logistics development and the needs of integrated development in the Yangtze River Delta, this study constructs an evaluation indicator system using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The system covers five dimensions: infrastructure capacity, logistics operational efficiency, industrial synergy and supply chain resilience, green development level, and digitalization and intelligentization level. The results show that, at the stage of high-quality development, the core development dimensions of the logistics system in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration have shifted toward green development, digitalization, and intelligentization. This indicates that the evaluation paradigm for regional logistics systems has moved from the traditional criteria dominated by scale expansion and circulation speed to an integrated performance-oriented system that emphasizes environmental sustainability, technological integration and innovation, and the realization of the value of data elements.

Shuangshuang Liao, Rong Huang. Research on the Evaluation Indicator System for the Logistics Development Level of the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration. Academic Journal of Business & Management (2026), Vol. 8, Issue 6: 18-25. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJBM.2026.080603.

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