Chapter(8): Transport And Logistics Industry

To face the worldwide competition and meet the new information technologies era’s recent requirements, digitalization and adoption of new information techniques have become a must for all transport and logistics companies and organizations to improve their activities. This digital transformation of transport and logistics sectors gives birth to huge and increasingly growing sets of voluminous data with high velocity and varied data sources, also known as advanced analytics. With new manipulation and management infrastructures and more real-time analysis and techniques, these enormous datasets can be efficiently harvested to carry out valuable operational improvements and create new business values in the transport and logistics domains. This chapter reviews the advanced analytics in the transport and logistic fields, discusses the current research challenges, and identifies some promising future research directions.