Abstract
INTRODUCTION
The Mobile Telematics Handbook is the companion to the technology market
research report Mobile Telematics: Global Markets and Technologies (BCC
Research Report IFT062A). Together the report and the handbook provide both a
macro-view and micro-view of the global impact of the convergence of
telecommunications, digital display, and control systems on all forms of
on-road and off-road transportation.
Mobile Telematics: Global Markets and Technologies is the first study of the
mobile telematics industry to extend beyond the automotive sector. In addition
to providing industry forecasts from 2007 through 2012 for telematics systems
for the automotive industry, the study also analyzes the demand for
specialized systems for public transit systems, intelligent transport systems,
aircraft, cruise lines, and agricultural and construction equipment.
Augmenting that analysis are some 200 tables that provide detailed market
segment forecasts for the U.S. and global markets. The analysis also differs
from other works in that it incorporated broader social, regulatory, and
political considerations that influence the size and structure of local
markets for specific devices. In the U.S., for example, there is an enormous
demand for telematics systems to better protect motorists at rail crossings.
Yet, the close political relationship between the industry and the regulatory
community assures that market will remain dormant for the at least the first
part of the 21st century. In contrast, other government policies that affect
the automotive sector have spurred on the advance of safety-oriented
telematics systems at a time when the entertainment and information segments
of the business are on the wane.
Where Mobile Telematics: Global Markets and Technologies presents a broad view
of the entire mobile telematics landscape, the Mobile Telematics Handbook
offers highly detailed data that can be collectively described as actionable
marketing intelligence. The volume itself is arranged as a series of
comprehensive datasets. Several are devoted to describing the size, structure,
and condition of the roadway, railway, aviation, and intermodal
infrastructures upon which the associated mobile devices depend.
One especially useful feature of The Handbook is a series of forecasts that
estimate the prices of many hundreds of components from which comprehensive
telematics systems are assembled from 2007 through 2012. Unlike studies in
which cost projection are base on industry-provided estimates of product
costs, or theoretical demand models, the pricing information found in The
Handbook is forecast from actual prices paid by OEMs and end-users.
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