Trade and Transportation Custom Solutions

Ocean Port feasibility studies

Global Insight has carried out feasibility studies for sea ports around the world, to assist in their master planning, capacity planning, privatizations, value and price determination, market targeting, and negotiations with potential operators.

Integrated freight marketing and operations strategy

We combine marketing, strategic, and operational issues into recommendations for transportation carriers and shippers.
Example: a truck line recently benefited when competitive analysis systems were combined with methods for operations improvement and optimizing customer selection.

Competitive analysis and intelligence

We analyze firms' competitive positions.
Example: Assisted a leading LTL carrier in identifying operational volumes and locations for potential targeted acquisitions.

Motor and rail carrier operations and facility assessment

Assist transportation providers in optimizing the location of distribution centers, truck terminals, and transportation service facilities. Facilitate the determination of primary market areas for business and help develop the appropriate network.

Market research and feasibility studies

Provide expert assistance and market data to firms requiring market research, forecasting, and feasibility analyses.
Example: expert testimony about market capacity and reload economics was given for a top truckload carrier embroiled in a court case.

Operations research and economic evaluation

Our staff includes leading researchers and practitioners in the areas of transportation operations research and economic evaluation. Our experts have made career-long contributions to the development of research and the production of operational models for highway and railroad planning and analysis, equipment management and utilization, logistics, network analysis, traffic studies, and capacity analysis.

Transportation data sourcing, consolidation, and analysis

Identify market and profitability data. Help firms understand which customers to target and how to segment their sales and operating territories. By combining data with management and marketing expertise, we help transportation firms understand the competitive landscape.

Traffic, network, and traffic-diversion modeling

We are experts in traffic analysis, market forecasting, network modeling, and traffic diversion. Our technology, data, and modeling techniques have been key to a significant rework of major transportation systems.

Merger, acquisition, and privatization analysis

Provide strategic assistance and operational modeling expertise for some of the highest profile transportation mergers, acquisitions, and privatizations in the past 10 years.

Crew requirements modeling

Assist in determining transportation crew requirements for traffic and operating plan utilizing a variety of work rules.

Service planning and design

Advise on major operational service plan modifications for some of the largest freight carriers.

Transportation information systems design and implementation

Our experts have contributed to some of the most important information system developments in the transportation industry. These include the widely used systems for operational design and management in the rail industry, locomotive management and dispatching systems, corridor capacity management systems, and network planning and management tools. We have the talent to design and implement transportation software systems from the ground up, as well as contribute or advise on existing system, database, and e-commerce design and implementation efforts.

High-value transport goods modeling

We help shipper, carrier, and government decision makers understand the transportation network for high-service goods—goods sensitive to congestion and delays—and make investments that support the competitiveness of their local industry.