Innovative concepts of digitisation and digitalisation in the multimodal transportation organisation

Abstract

The role and place of digitisation and digitalisation in multimodal transportation of cargoes within the context of innovative development of the world transport and logistics markets are highlighted. The conducted critical analysis of scientific sources allowed to identify the unresolved part of the problem, which is to define innovative concepts of digitisation and digitalisation for market participants. The methodological basis of the study comprises analytical methods, methods of expert assessments, methods of system analysis and pairwise comparisons, and abstract and logical methods. The scientific novelty of the proposed study is determined by the clarification of the conceptual apparatus for defining the concepts of ‘digitisation’ and ‘digitalisation’, establishing the features of integration transformations, the impact of digitisation, digitalisation and digital transformation on the process of organising multimodal transportation, as well as the authors’ vision of digitisation and digitalisation innovation concepts for logistics operators and multimodal carriers. It has been determined that digitalisation and digital transformation will create qualitatively new conditions for multimodal transportation participants, which are described in detail in the study. In the proposed innovative concepts of digitisation and digitalisation for logistics operators and multimodal carriers, the purpose, strategic goals, subject-partner relations, tools and means of implementation were defined, which were described and characterised in detail.

Keywords

• digitisation
• digitalisation
• multimodal transport
• innovations
• concept
• carrier
• logistics operator