The logistics industry may have a drip mode in the future

“Dribbling a taxi” rewrites the history of the passenger transportation industry. This can not help but guess: Where is this dark horse in the cargo industry? Yesterday, the 7th Global Supply Chain Management Conference ended at Zhejiang University. The distinguished guest of the conference, Wei Feng, deputy director of the Intelligent Transportation and Telematics Industrialization Office of the China Communications and Communications Information Center, said in an exclusive interview with reporters that there are companies that are currently researching applications such as “dribbling taxi” and will be used in the near future. In the logistics industry. "Information technology has been put in place. What is missing is a multi-party cooperation mechanism." Wei Feng said frankly.

The structure of the comprehensive transport system is not reasonable. It basically depends on roads for food and clothing.

At the conference site, Wei Feng provided a set of data: the road mileage was 4.45 million kilometers, the navigable range of the fairway was 130,000 kilometers, the high-speed rail mileage was 15,800 kilometers, and there were 202 airports. “In the use of all modes of transportation in China, the proportion of road transport is the largest, accounting for more than 90%. People's food and clothing are basically transported by road.” Wei Feng said, “At present, the structure of China’s integrated transport system is not reasonable. This is manifested in the inadequacy of railway and inland water transport capacity; the development of civil aviation freight transport is relatively backward; the long-distance transport of bulk materials has a high market share in the road market; and the proportion of large-capacity public transport in the urban transport system is not high.”

Wei Feng bluntly pointed out that there are still many problems in the domestic transportation industry that need to be resolved. For example, the level of integration of transportation services still needs to be improved; the connectivity of transport infrastructure is poor; and the development of information integration of integrated transportation services lags behind.

Can the mobile Internet change the status quo in the transportation industry? “Can!” Wei Feng explained: “Modern information technology has broken down the information barriers between modes, businesses, and regions, realizing a new type of flat, collaborative, intelligent, and networked transportation service that meets the requirements of modern information technology. mode."

Logistics and transportation are not the same thing?

China's logistics transportation vacancy rate is much higher than in developed countries

At the global supply chain management conference, Wei Feng told reporters that logistics and transportation are not the same thing.

In fact, in English, logistics and transportation are completely different words. The former is "logistics" and the latter is "transport." Their difference can be seen from the cost. The goods shipped out of the car are empty-handed after they are unloaded. The cost of sending a car is two miles. This is not logistics. The seamless connection is the essence of logistics. It is understood that there are as many as hundreds of thousands of registered enterprises in the logistics industry in the country, but the number of modern logistics companies that have truly reached the standard is very small, and it is still basically a traditional transportation enterprise. Moreover, China's logistics costs are high, accounting for about 20% of the price of goods, the United States, the logistics costs only account for about 10% of the price of goods, showing that China's logistics industry transformation space and potential.

"Logistics is a transportation industry with its core business. It forms a chain that connects the upstream and downstream industries smoothly and stretches the service chain." Wei Feng thinks that it is not easy to develop transportation into logistics.

Then, will there be a company and a similar "dribbling taxi" application that can integrate upstream and downstream resources in the logistics and transportation industry? "As far as I know, companies have already studied this matter. Moreover, with respect to information technology, we have the ability to implement this idea, but it is not enough to have technical support." Wei Feng said, "The logistics The role is very complex and has many links. It covers the consigner, carrier, logistics center, and the details of the type, quantity, size, etc. of goods, and the logistics scope is wider than that of taxi drivers, including the whole country and even the whole world. How to put people and cars? The establishment of an information system for goods and goods is not a simple matter.” She cited an example. The transportation market at the moment is the seller’s market. There are few goods sources and many trucks. China’s logistics transportation vacancy rate is as high as 45%, which is much higher than that of developed countries.

However, Wei Feng feels that since information technology is already available, as long as a multi-party cooperation mechanism is formed, then the freight industry's "dribbling" can also be expected.