Abstract
With the wide variety of information systems and applications for motor transport and transport logistics control we have today, one may think we are already living in the digital era of general welfare, and digital tools would easily ensure sustainable development and prosperity of businesses. However, the experience of deployment and introduction of such solutions shows that their value for transport business is significantly lower than expected. Moreover, in some projects, business performance of transport companies had no correlation with introduction of information systems. In the best-case scenario, they provided for a slight decrease in document flow transaction costs. The change of the strategic status of a company in the transportation service market is a fairly complicated task, which, as analysis of literary sources shows, is achievable for few enterprises, primarily small and medium-sized businesses. Such situations show that information solutions were introduced without analyzing or assessing the business models of certain companies which could be used a basis for digital landscape of business as a whole. In recent years, the basic concept of forming a single information space of an enterprise has been the enterprise architecture. It provided for coordination between all the business processes in order to achieve a company’s strategic goals. The fundamentals of the concept were developed by J. Zachman in his famous Zachman Framework, and it was later developed with numerous models of enterprise architecture (e.g., TOGAF (Department of Defense Architecture Framework), GERAM (Generalised Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology), DoDAF (Department of Defense Architecture Framework)). However, currently some researchers note that sustainable corporate development should stem not only from a “correct assembly” of all its business elements, which was the purpose of enterprise architecture, but also from the interaction of these elements when reaching the emergence effect. In this context, one should pay attention to comprehensive activity analysis of a transport and logistics business using ontological and architecture approaches.
Highlights
Trucking is the most important connecting link between the economies of many countries from all over the world, which unites suppliers and consumers both within states and across their borders.this industry has become a sensitive barometer of economic activities, reflecting both positive and negative trends in the economic environment
The origins of ontology come from the philosophy of the ancient world where it was used in attempts to describe the entire world order according to the views and ideas of that time [15]
Since making profit is the goal of any commercial organization, in our opinion, the ontology should first of all include certain subject-matters due to which the transport company earns money in a competitive and uncertain environment in the trucking market, creating value for its customers and relationships between them
Summary
Trucking is the most important connecting link between the economies of many countries from all over the world, which unites suppliers and consumers both within states and across their borders. This industry has become a sensitive barometer of economic activities, reflecting both positive and negative trends in the economic environment. It is known that the sustainable development of a transport company under the conditions of external uncertainty and instability is ensured by technological and economic, and by social factors, where the knowledge and experience of employees, their motivation, mutual understanding and well-coordinated interaction are sometimes decisive [4]. Creativity, flexibility and unique thinking, including the ability to find solutions in a rapidly changing world, requires of company employees to possess multidisciplinary knowledge in order to confidently navigate the flow of information which keeps increasing due to the digitalization of transport and logistics activities [5]
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