Freight Transportation & Logistics Research Service

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Freight Transportation & Logistics Coverage

Transportation & Logistics are crucial to an effective and evolving supply chain. Our research focuses on end-to-end commercial transport, distribution/fulfillment and logistics, last-mile delivery, e-commerce impact, freight marketplaces, vehicle loading technologies, fulfillment vehicles from co-bots to drones, electrification, ADAS and autonomy. 

Coverage areas include:
  • Prognostics and OTA updates
  • Regulatory and government impact
  • Disruptive threats
  • Industry influencers
  • Economic assessments
  • M&A and VC Investments
  • Commercial vehicle telematics
  • Freight-as-a-Service
  • Process automation
  • Augmented reality
  • Emerging commercial form factors
  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning in transportation
  • Distribution/fulfillment centers and logistics technologies
  • Freight marketplaces
  • Electrification and hybrid vehicles
  • Blockchain
  • ADAS and autonomous driving technology in commercial vehicles
  • Drone and robotics usage for last-mile/yard delivery and e-commerce fulfillment
  • Asset tracking and monitoring
  • Multimodal transportation for air, maritime, and rail
 

Answers To Today's Freight Transportation & Logistics Questions

We provide technology implementers with expert guidance on technology adoption, investment options and strategic decision making. Some of the questions we address include:
  • What are some of the best options for my company to develop “as a service” solutions for transportation and logistics?
  • What advantages and challenges will my company face as more open-source platforms emerge including digital marketplaces?
  • Are my company’s latest technology offerings in danger of vehicle and cargo cybersecurity issues?
  • How can we proactively prepare to address such concerns?
  • How does connected commercial vehicle’s data become actionable?
  • Who should own the data and how should it be accessed, shared and monetized?
  • What other companies should my organization look to partner with for increased efficiencies and competitive advantages?
  • What are advantages of horizontal versus vertical growth?
  • Where does my company fit within this competitive landscape?
  • How will embedded vehicle technology like ADAS, prognostics and OTA impact traditional telematics?
  • Which fleet segments are most promising?
  • Should my company focus on a key segment or service?
  • Should my company select fleet management system vendors, or should we grow organically?
  • Will further consolidation occur?
  • How and when will autonomous commercial vehicle technology, impact transportation markets?
  • What is the outlook for drones and robotic deliveries?
  • How important are multi-modal transportation services and technologies across road, rail, air, and sea?
  • How can various supply chain stakeholders work together to extract the most value from various logistics and warehousing technologies?
  • How do technology vendors and solution providers differ in their technology portfolio and commercial strategies?
  • How can warehouse automation be augmented by the human workforce and vice versa?
  • Which adjacent technologies will affect the products and solutions we develop and use?
 

Research Deliverables

We cover the technologies, trends, and markets from every angle, and we deliver our qualitative and quantitative intelligence in multiple formats.

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Competitive Assessment
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Competitive Assessment reports offer comprehensive analysis of implementation strategies and innovation, coupled with market share analysis, to offer unparalleled insight into a company’s performance and standing in comparison to its competitors.

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Market Data

Market Data spreadsheets are composed of deep data, market share analysis, and highly segmented, service-specific forecasts to provide detailed insight where opportunities lie.

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Technology Analysis
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Based on extensive primary interviews, Technology Analysis reports present in-depth analysis on key market trends and factors for a specific technology.

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Hot Tech Innovators
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Hot Tech Innovators reports focus on companies at the forefront of transformational innovation, particularly those that are younger and less well-known than the incumbents, at the technological forefront of their markets, developing new business models, destabilizing the current market and prime acquisition targets.

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Market Update
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Depicted in a PowerPoint format, the Market Update provides a snapshot into current and future market opportunities and threats for a specific technology as well as focusing on a selected key market and associated trends.

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Transformative Horizon
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Transformative Horizon PowerPoints are aimed at providing timely, deep, actionable insight in the looming transformative innovations that will impact the markets which matter most by focusing on a new company entrance or product launch, a significant company merger, a new business model or a new strategic direction for an incumbent.

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Application Analysis
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Based on extensive primary interviews, Application Analysis reports present in-depth analysis on key market trends and factors for a specific application, which could focus on an individual market or geography.

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ABI Insight
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In a one- to two-page executive summary, ABI Insights are driven mostly by recent, noteworthy news events — including M&As, proposed and recently enacted regulations, product launches and market updates —and often highlight ABI Research’s important technology forecasts.

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