The Logistics Transport Evolution: The Road Ahead

Transportation is Changing

Transportation – particularly ground transportation – is changing, driven by trends such as e-commerce, urbanization and big data analytics.

In the face of those changes, we wanted to understand the factors that are rewriting the guide book on ground transportation.

Trends such as the explosive growth of e-commerce, the continued urbanization of markets, and big data analytics and digitalization are driving a massive change.

This shift is ratcheting up service expectations, supporting growth in emerging markets, creating new ground transportation solutions, and above all injecting advanced technologies and service options into how shippers and 3PLs manage global transportation flows.

In the face of these changes, what are the top five factors that are rewriting the guide book on ground transportation today?

DHL Supply Chain surveyed over 200 transportation decision-makers across the globe and within all the major industry sectors, asking about their current and future transportation operations and strategies.

Download our research report to learn more about our findings, including:

• The role that transportation plays in today’s businesses...
• How requirements and expectations differ between regions...
• What represents value in transportation...
• The trends that are driving the transportation strategy...
• And the technologies that are regarded as 'must-haves'