Digital transport platforms: reality and prospects

Abstract

The main trend of digital development of the transport industry is platformization. Digital platforms are able to integrate all transport and logistics processes into a single system, and the expansion of interfaces and created values allows the platform to grow into an ecosystem. However, today there is no clear answer to the question of how free/restricted access to the digital transport platform should be for both service providers (service operators) and consumers. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the architecture of building digital platforms and ecosystems focused on the transport environment, in which any service can be easily included with the full preservation of existing functionality and the potential for its development, without losing its identity and subscriber base. The research is based on the platform ecosystem approach, as well as the stages of the evolution of digital platforms in the B2B industrial context, which have already been described in modern literature. The article presents the prospects for the development of digital platforms with a "transport core" and transformation into an open digital ecosystem. This study expands views on the evolution of platform transport ecosystems and the development of digital transport and related services.