Influence of digital transformation on the cost structure of transport services

Abstract

Economic evaluation of digital model of business, its digital transformation, is an important instrument contributing to development and acceleration of digitalisation processes, adoption of well-founded decisions on investing company funds into digital technologies. The paper assesses influence of digital transformation of business on changing cost structure of a transport service. The main feature of transformation is accelerated investment into cutting-edge digital technologies. Dynamics of investment into digital technologies is evaluated for Russia’s transport, including railways, and elements of transport service cost on which savings can be made as a result of digitalisation of transport business are identified.