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.pdfTrend #5: Regulation Compliance
It will be more correct to say that regulatory compliance is a must rather than one of the latest trends in transportation. Commercial transport companies should stay up-to-date on recent requirements and regulations adopted, changed, or removed by any local, state, or federal government. Whether they are regulations regarding electronic logbooks, overtime, or safety rules, timely monitoring regulations will always be a trend.
Trend #6: Blockchain in Logistics
Blockchain is one of those transformative technology trends in distribution and transportation, that shape the mobility in 2020 and beyond. One of the perspective use cases for the blockchain technology in trucking is ensuring the accuracy of performance history records. When a truck gets sold for the second time, potential customers may have questions about how this vehicle was used. Since blockchain transactions are immutable and transparent, all parties involved in a transaction can be sure that the information about the truck is trustworthy.
Another perspective use of blockchain in transportation is capacity monitoring. The cost of transportation depends on cargo volume. The use of Internet-of-things (IoT) sensors can help determine the amount of space a particular cargo occupies. This data can be used to calculate the shipment cost. Storing this information into a blockchain-based system signed with a smart contract will allow self-executing payments on a base of the amount of space taken by the freight.
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Trend #7: Address Delivery
The growth of E-commerce businesses leads to a rising demand for address deliveries. Providing better service means being more competitive. Heavy trucking businesses should consider adding a fleet of small vehicles to conquer a bigger piece of the market. Therefore, optimization of the last mile deliveries is one of the transport and logistics industry trends of 2020.
Trend #8: Drone Delivery
Within a last-mile delivery focus tendency among both retailers and transportation companies, some companies already deliver packages to the citizens and companies by drones. At the end of 2016, Amazon first delivered an order to its customer using a drone. This delivery was conducted in England within Amazon’s new program called Prime Air which implied that a customer could get a package in 30 minutes. After Amazon’s success, various companies started investing in drone delivery to increase the cost-effectiveness of their business and customer experience as well.
In the EON of COVID-19 the contactless address delivery became the most popular and required of all the present-day transportation industry trends. It motivated even more companies to turn their eyes to this delivery option and start adopting it. (6881)
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Transport Innovations What Your Business Really Needs
The transportation sector is now being in the important transformational phase due to the technological and digital solutions, which come into use. Besides, the sphere is driven by the market trends and subject to the economic, social, technological, environmental, political, and legal changes as well. The complexity of the modern system of transportation grows immensely and it’s often difficult for a modern investor to define what his short and long term focuses should be and where he has to invest in the first turn. In this paper, we have made an attempt to facilitate your choice of priorities and define the key forces, which are going to have transformational influence on the transportation segment in 2019.
Who is this paper for? – For the companies and startups dealing with transportation in the wide and narrow sense, businesses involved in:
•Car rent,
•Car sharing,
•Cargo transportation,
•Passenger transportation,
•Taxi services,
•Public transit activities, etc.
According to the PwC CEO Survey 2018 – 68% of transport companies’ CEOs expect that the changes in the core technologies of service provision will be disruptive to their
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business. Everyone has heard nowadays about modern revolutionary technologies and innovations like autonomous vehicles, robotics, and Hyperloop, not speaking about the blockchain, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. Being quite ground-breaking, however, these technologies are not yet worth rushing for.
We advise our customers and potential clients to focus on the possibilities less complex in implementation, cheaper in realization, yet quite cost-effective and workable for solving current problems. At present you can make your transportation business break a new ground following just 2 main trends: Digitizing and Developing Effective Software Solutions.
Digitizing
Digitizing is the process, which has already comprised all spheres of our life and businesses starting from the administration, through operations to contracting. It’s not any longer as simple as informational and communicational technologies or enterprise resource planning, it’s nowadays about the creation and shaping of the absolutely new business models and processes as well as integrations and leveraging service provision in the digital environment.
According to the PwC Global Digital IQ Survey of recent years, more than 54% of companies expect the increase of their revenue due to the digitalization.
The main aims of the digitalization are
• Processes simplification,
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•services, products, and business models redesigning,
•Avoidance of the negative influences of talent gaps.
Digitalization is able to reshape the way of interaction between the consumers and the businesses, visible online and providing mobile ordering and ticketing options. In the nearest future such services will no more be referred to as innovative but viewed as the common ones, that’s why the software-driven process changes are inevitable and beneficial both for the service providers and consumers.
Software-driven process changes
The changes are expected to enter into the business processes dynamically over the next few years. Though they still need to find their way in the mainstream at present, you should consider investing in the solutions already today to generate large profits for your business or a startup earlier than the competitors. The evolution of base technologies is necessary at present to craft a favorable environment for the more advanced tools development in the future.
Smart devices and mobile gadgets have greatly influenced not only ordinary users and customers, but companies, service businesses, and commercial entities as well.
The most recent innovative mobile application development breakthroughs have made a transportation sphere a prospective market for customized mobile solutions. The key benefit of transportation industry applications is the possibility to get information in real time and adjust all the processes accordingly.
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So the specialized features, implemented specifically for the transportation industry applications can efficiently advance the service, the processes, and the transportation management through:
•AI analytics
•Predictive solutions
•Intelligent management
The advantages of mobile platforms and applications are obvious both for consumers and companies. The main benefits are the following:
1) Procedures sophistication. A mobile platform or an app allows a transportation company to ensure even operations running, timely arrival or delivery, and quick performance.
The consumers in their turn can follow all the processes in realtime.
2) Dynamic tracking.
The customers can check their shipments or means of transportation, while the companies are able to keep the hand on the pulse of their cargo or passenger transportation operations and also follow the employees' activities and general productivity.
3) Prompt decision making.
Due to the mobile applications' possibility of capturing data instantly and updating it in real time, the customers, the
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employees and the managing staff of the companies can make quick and flawless judgments.
4) Proper task management.
It’s primarily the benefit for the corporate interests as the legal entity is then able to maximize its potential monitoring the employees’ schedule, updating tasks and creating and adjusting timetables with regards to the actual state of things.
5) Automation of the procedures making them paper free.
Mobile apps and platforms offer the ultimate benefit of a mobile dashboard with dynamic features, allowing process automation, report creating, task managing, and what’s important doing it all time-effectively and paperless.
6) Flexibility.
Besides the possibility of corporate control at different levels, another merit from digitizing is the possibility to alter timetables and routes, which allows greater flexibility to consumers and business owners.
7) Auxiliary operations.
Here we can mention service standards upgrading, simplicity of scrutiny, account verification, compliance assurance, GPS integration, and route planning along with the improvement of customer care services.
8) Reasonable price and efficiency combined.
A dedicated mobile application may become a real benefit to your business due to the possibility to provide a real-time data
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of movements, inventories, cargo and passenger transportation operations and keeping the manpower properly organized at the same time. Thus optimizing operational costs and increasing efficiency it’s something worth investing in. (6640)
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Top 10 transportation trends to watch for in 2020
By Katie Fehrenbacher
December 17, 2019
It's that time of year again, where we simultaneously look back at the year slipping away behind us and towards the shiny new year full of promise just ahead.
There was a lot to celebrate in transportation in 2019. It was a big year for cities to buy electric transit buses and ban diesel cars from city centers (at least in Europe).
Meanwhile, automakers such as Ford launched ever more enticing electric car models such as its new Mustang Mach-E. And e-scooter riding, which can replace car trips and reduce congestion, saw unprecedented growth.
At the same, charging infrastructure emerged as the No. 1 issue holding back vehicle and heavy-duty fleet electrification this year. And transportation-related emissions likely rose this year for the fourth year in a row (the hard data doesn't come out until early 2020), continuing to represent the single largest contributor to carbon dioxide emissions in the United States.
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So how will 2020 be different? A few market and tech trends will emerge on the horizon next year, while other transport sectors will mature and drop in cost. 2020 should be a really interesting year for the transformation of transportation. Here are 10 trends I'm watching:
1. Big companies start buying more electric truck fleets:
More retailers and shippers will place large orders of electric trucks for beverage routes, last-mile delivery and short-haul distribution. Amazon surprised everyone this year when it announced that it plans to buy 100,000 electric delivery vans from startup Rivian, while UPS, FedEx and DHL have all bought electric trucks in smaller numbers. Anheuser-Busch placed an order for 21 BYD electric semi-trucks this year, which looks like the largest order for class 8 electric trucks in the United States.
While the numbers were pretty small this year, more electric trucks from the big automakers are supposed to go into production over the next two years. Volvo Trucks North America plans to start selling its VNR electric truck commercially in 2020. And Daimler Trucks North America plans to start series production of its electric trucks, the Freightliner eCascadia and Freightliner eM2, in 2021, with pilot customers in 2020.
In addition to big automakers starting to take electric trucks more seriously, important mandates and incentives at the state and city level are helping drive this market. The California Air Resources Board plans to adopt its Advanced Clean Truck rule
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next spring, which will require automakers to sell an increasing amount of electric trucks, in addition to requiring big companies to start reporting on their (and their third party) fleet truck operations. On the municipal level, cities all over Europe have been banning diesel trucks in urban centers, and you can expect that trend to continue and move into the United States as well. (1622)
2. Sustainable city transportation plans come to America:
While European cities have been leading on the "green zones" and diesel bans, similar efforts are starting to be enacted and considered in America's biggest cities. New York will become the first U.S. city to implement congestion pricing, charging drivers to enter congested city centers in Manhattan.
While it might sound shocking, London implemented its congestion charging in 2003 and it's been highly successful in reducing air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions (it also has newer ultra-low emission zones). New Yorkers won't feel the new fees until 2021, but expect next year to be a year of figuring out how to adjust to them.
A month ago, Los Angeles launched the most aggressive U.S. city-led sustainable transportation plans. It wants most of its new cars and all of its city buses to be electric by 2028, and it's actively considering how congestion pricing could help with slashing its infamous traffic. Expect Los Angeles congestion fee feasibility to be a hot topic in 2020.
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