 Logistics and the networked society: A conceptual framework for smart network business models using electric autonomous vehicles (EAVs)Jason Monios and Rickard Bergqvist Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2020, vol. 151, issue C Abstract: The full adoption of electric autonomous vehicles (EAVs) will revolutionise the global transport system in general and road freight transport in particular. Traditional business models based on manufacturers selling trucks to operators could conceivably disappear. As with passenger transport, the rapid obsolescence of the technology and the cost will drive a non-ownership model and an evolution from products to services. Therefore it is expected that a new network operator will emerge to run this service, which in the future will likely develop into a fully smart network. As the value of the truck technology is reduced and the software component becomes the core source of value creation, it opens up the possibility of new entrants to the market who do not need to purchase physical assets at all and may instead rent them from a competitive pool of asset providers. Keywords: Electric vehicles (EV); Autonomous vehicles (AV); Mobility as a Service (MaaS); Trucks; Heavy goods vehicles (HGV); Road transport; Freight; Logistics (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:tefoso:v:151:y:2020:i:c:s004016251930410x DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2019.119824 Access Statistics for this article Technological Forecasting and Social Change is currently edited by Fred Phillips More articles in Technological Forecasting and Social Change from Elsevier |
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