Global Transportation

Datamonitor's Global Transportation industry profile is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the transportation industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, plus textual and graphical analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, leading companies and demographic information.

Scope

• Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and/or segmentation
• Provides textual analysis of the industry's recent performance and future prospects
• Incorporates in-depth five forces competitive environment analysis and scorecards
• Includes a five-year forecast of the industry
• The leading companies are profiled with supporting key financial metrics
• Supported by the key macroeconomic and demographic data affecting the market

Highlights

• Detailed information is included on market size, measured by value and/or volume
• Five forces scorecards provide an accessible yet in depth view of the market's competitive landscape
• Market shares are covered by manufacturer or brand

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Market Definition

• The transportation industry group consists of the aggregate revenues generated globally in the following markets, sectors, and industries:
• The air freight and logistics sector consists of revenues generated from freight and mail transportation by air, excluding charter flights. The regional segmentation refers to the country of origin of the delivery.
• The airlines industry consists of revenues from passenger air transportation, both chartered and scheduled.
• The marine industry consists of the total revenue generated from transportation of goods and passengers over water, either inland or over sea.
• The trucking sector consists of total revenues garnered from local, national or international general freight and passenger road transport. The railroad sector consists of total revenues collected from passenger rail transportation. Together, the trucking and railroad sectors form the road and rail industry.
• The airport services market consists of the revenues obtained by operators of airports and companies providing related services. Market values are estimated from WLU volumes (one WLU is equivalent to one passenger or 100 kg of cargo) and revenue figures per WLU for a representative sample of airport operators.
• The global highways and railtracks sector consists of total government expenditure on the planning, building, and maintenance of road and railway infrastructure, as this represents the principal source of sector revenue, even where work is carried out by private companies.
• The marine ports and services market consists of the revenues obtained by owners and operators of public and private marine ports and providers of related services. The regional segmentation is calculated according to location of ports. Together, the airport services market, the highways and railtracks sector, and the marine ports and services market form the transport infrastructure industry.
• All currency conversions have been calculated at constant average annual 2007 exchange rates.
• For the purpose of this report the Americas comprise Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the US.
• Europe comprises Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the UK.
• Asia-Pacific comprises Australia, China, Japan, India, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.
• The global figure comprises the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe.