Plataforma digital de compartilhamento de espaço ocioso em veículos de carga

Abstract

For years, transportation in Brazil has been in imbalance, which makes the country's logistic cost one of the most inefficient and expensive in the world. This is due to the focus on investments in only one of the modalities of transportation in the last century, the road modal, which concentrates more than 60% of the volume of cargo that circulates in the country. Even though it has been prioritized for all these years, the road freight transportation sector has been suffering from the vehicles idleness and the high cost to maintain routes with few active demands. The search for a better utilization of cargo vehicles and for reducing operational costs has been highly debated, because in today's volatile market, more than following trends, companies must remain competitive. One of the largest movements of today's market is the so-called sharing economy, which is the sharing of resources to generate scale economy. This study presents a conceptual basis regarding the relation of road freight transport with these new trends, drawing a parallel between the most common management and business strategy studies with concepts of sharing economy. Through qualitative research, interviews and benchmarking, this work tries to understand if there is a representative idleness of spaces in road cargo vehicles, and if the transport companies would be interested in sharing them. Thus, it was possible to understand how road transport companies deal with the sharing of idle space in their cargo vehicles, and to present a conceptual model of a digital platform that interlinks business of buying and selling idle spaces in cargo vehicles.