Technical equipment, telemetry systems and platform business model interface in the transport and logistics sector

Abstract

Transport and logistics business sector is flooded with new providers of telematics systems and this tendency keeps increasing for last 4-5 years. It is seen in the records of one of the biggest automotive show named IAA which is organized and help every two years. From 2016 years the increasement of telematics systems which were nominated for different categories for awards of telematics systems increased in numbers two times. Globally the number of telematics providers already passed 300 companies. Competitivenes in telematics providers is a benefit for the customers because systems functionality is increasing which enagles the users to have better efficiency in their daily business or get additional comfort guaranteeing services. Digital information generated by different types of vehicles which is systematized and provided for end user slowly becomes more a regularity than exception in transport and logistics business. According to literature analysis in this article the authors tried to find an answer to question - isn't something bigger hiding underneath telematics systems, such as business model platform, which was one of the most important success tools for companies in other business sectors such as Netflix or Airbnb? Literature research proved that platform business model is more than likely to be successful in transport and logistics which is based on telematics provided data this is the reason why this topic is relevant today.