A recent study from Capgemini, sets out the 8 top challenges facing the logistics industry. It’s mainly focused on reducing the increasing costs of goods transportation. Here are all of them summarized in a few points: Fuel costs: rising fuel prices are reducing gross margins for transportation companies. This is reversing a two-year trend that cut…
Month: February 2019
An approach to transportation problems: Long distances
On the day-to-day, people use cars, trains, metro or buses to get easily to their destination. If you don’t get caught in a traffic jam or a breakdown occurs in the transport, the trip duration is very low and the trip itself is satisfactory. But this changes when we have to travel longer distances, usually…
An approach to transportation problems: Parking in big cities
During the last years, the parking places have been reduced in numbers due to the pollution big cities have and because cities are getting a transformation to be more attractive to the tourism refurbishing the downtown to a pedestrian area among others. In big cities there are a lot of people that live in the…
An approach to transportation problems: People with mobility problems
Using public transport could be an impossible mission for people with mobility problems. In every city there are hundreds of buses, metro cars and trains. Therefore, adapt everything is too expensive and a lot of cities still don’t offer a quality service for the disabled. We believe that is important that everyone can have a…
An approach to transportation problems: New methods of delivery
The courier companies are designing new methods to deliver an order within the cities. This can be an advantage for both consumers and the shipping company. This is due to the fact that the waiting times are reduced in the delivery of the order. The current problems encountered by the companies that use drones are that they…
An approach to transportation problems: Urban mobility
Nowadays, within the big cities, where the traditional means of transport have begun to become obsolete, at least on the actual state, and where emergent technologies such as electric cars and with new methods such as car-sharing, the urban mobility problem rise rapidly. Also, with the contamination rising every day and reaching highly alarming levels,…
Mega-trends about transportation
Innovation is awesome, but sometimes it is also risky. If you don’t want to take any risk, lifelong options are always taking care of you. Here are some trends worldwide present that had been working since several years ago. Forest sanitation helicopters The forest sanitation helicopters offer a service to combat possible fires that may…
Macro-trends about transportation
Every service has to adapt, otherwise, they become outdated. Transportation is not an exception. These are some trends that a few years ago were a revolutionary innovation and nowadays exists around all the globe. Carsharing (Car2go) Car2go is a company founded in 2008 created for car sharing. At that time it was a new segment…
Micro-trends about transportation
Transportation is a service running since centuries ago, but this doesn’t mean it is outdated. These are some of the latest and most innovative emerging trends in the sector. Drone Delivery Drone delivery has been evolving for the last five years but it’s still in an experimental phase. Companies like Amazon or Domino’s Pizza have…