Global Commerce & Transport Custom Solutions
IHS Global Insight provides consulting services and solutions to transportation and logistics firms. Our professional staff has managed marketing, operations, and operations research functions in trucking, railroad, air freight, consulting, and transit organizations. Our experts bring clarity and depth to the issues facing transportation and logistics firms.
Our expertise includes:
Ocean Port feasibility studies
IHS 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 market size, segmentation, 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.
Service planning and design
Advise on major operational service plan modifications for some of the largest freight carriers.
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.
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