Smart Money is Investing in Transportation Services Technology
By 2021, smart transportation is expected to be worth over $220 billion.
Smart transportation does not include the markets driven by apps like Uber or Lyft; rather, it includes mechanisms like smart ticketing, parking management, and traffic management. It may be hard to comprehend that such a small factor of the transportation services industry is worth such a massive sum, but this gives insight into how valuable and expansive this sector really is.
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Innovative technology that targets transportation services immediately catches interest among established institutional investors. The reasoning behind this is obvious: Uber managed to become one of the most valuable companies in the world in just a couple of years. The astounding rate of the company’s valuation surge is understandable as the sheer market value is so much.
Today, investment firms across the world pick up every opportunity to inject cash in transportation technology start-ups. A great example is SoftBank, which acquired its wealth through successful seed investments in AliBaba. Now, SoftBank has tens of billions of dollars invested in dozens of technology start-ups that exclusively target transportation services. Moreover, SoftBank has managed to acquire nearly $100 billion from major technology companies, like Apple and Qualcomm, and from sovereign wealth funds of several countries. This capital is being utilized by SoftBank’s Vision Fund, which too is heavily investing in technology that targets technology services.
So, one of the most successful technology investment firms in the world, major sovereign funds, and tech giants are all interested in the potential to be achieved from technology aiming at transportation services. Clearly, there’s a lot of big guys targeting this industry, and that’s actually a problem for the everyday person: only the big guys are investing in this technology.
Most of the technology start-ups targeting transportation services have raised funds through traditional channels that allow them and only accredited investors have had the opportunity to participate. Some of the greatest investment opportunities in history have locked out the everyday person—this is nothing new. However, the blockchain movement is bringing opportunities to the masses, and a new ICOs is delivering to everyday people the opportunity to invest in a major transportation technology start-up.
An Opportunity
A new blockchain project, DAV, is integrating open-source software and hardware to develop a decentralized marketplace for every transportation service possible. We’ve seen the development of individual technologies that have targeted different aspects of transportation services and the companies that developed them have become household names.
DAV, however, is a new approach: it aims to build the most inclusive platform possible by making the marketplace free. This immediately brings in massive consumer attention. DAV serves as a platform so it does not need to focus on the operating costs of independent transportation services that will be facilitated due to its service. Rather, all this is passed on to the service providers on the platform. DAV simply acts as the most convenient way to discover any transportation service while utilizing blockchain technology to securely transfer the value of that service.
But how could an investment in something that charges no fees pay off?
Tokens.
DAV is building a network in which the only means of transacting will be through DAV tokens. Since this project does not charge any fees, the focus is on heightening token prices. The lack of fees makes swift product adoption in the mass market quite feasible, but all those who adopt the service will need DAV tokens. As the net market cap of a token must match the net transactional demand, the swift product adoption could generate a powerful hike in the token’s price.
DAV has set a very low minimum for participating in its ICO: 0.2 ETH. This is a sum affordable by the vast portion of the world and gives anyone and everyone the opportunity to invest in transportation services technology.
Essential Links
🌐 Website: https://dav.network/
💡 Whitepaper: https://dav.network/whitepaper.pdf
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ICO is great investment opportunity for a common people which was previously available for the richest. But there is something to be aware of. It can be both opportunity or loss because of the trend going on. If we can find the good project, this is best opportunity, but if it is a another scam project, you might end up loosing the money. A careful research is must before you decide to jump into the ICO. And the worse is that there is no protection for the investor.
Transportation industry is another good market to invest in as it has big market and plenty of opportunity but this industry is heavily centralized. There are very few names which control the industry, and it needs to be decentralized. Decentralized market will increase the competition, and lower the price. Thus, transportation industry related blockchain should be good investment, and I am looking forward for it.
I agree, due diligence is a must in any investment.
Decentralizing transport seems to be a great opportunity as the market potential is huge.
@hatu
ICOs, similar to crowdfunding give retail investors the same opportunity as rich who invest in VCs. ICOs do make investments fair as far as ability to invest is concerned, however, they lack any due diligence and investor protection.
Transportation sector is a good sector to invest in as far as development of new dencentralized marketplace is concerned. I have my doubts over whether a centralized or decentralized marketplace will be better.
My point wasn't that projects like DAV that host an ICO with low minimums are a safe means to invest. So yes, due diligence is always important, but I think projects like these are changing the very standards of investment opportunities for the masses.
Yeah, sorry, i did agree to them providing an opportunity for retail investors to be able to invest. This market for closed for the average joe. Now it isn't. So that is a great thing.
But what i was trying to say was that rich investors also get investor protection as part of investment process and VCs can afford duedil because they are loaded. Retail investors should also not be exposed to such risks in order to have a total level playing field. It should be mandatory for start ups doing ICOs to provide an investor document post fund raise, once they can afford due dil, a small cost to pay.
I tried to keep it short.
@hatu, I believe ICOs are giving a lot of people fair investment opportunities because new and innovative ICOs are being created each day. If they were to rise to the current rate of Ethereum, a small investment could lead to a return of huge and beneficial wealth. ICOs are really helping investors that investing in ICOs with the goals of making profit instead of particilating fully in it.
Ethereum is honestly in a league of its own eith respect to returns to initial investors. Even Uber is valued less than it. DAV could have a huge growth potential, but reaching a level close to Ethereum is a massive challenge.
Transport themes are always interesting discussed. Especially related to blockchain. thank @hatu
Absolutely! Transportation services have seen some of the greatest innovative solutions in the past decade. Blockchain technology can easily penetrate this market with even better technological solutions than the current ones.
I agree with you
Never would have dreamt that transportation technology services could worth 200 B....
Hey @punkey!
That figure is just for smart transportation devices like smart ticketing and traffic management systems and devices. The whole transportation service technology is a market that is well over $1 trillion.
I know, these figures are so jaw-droppingly high!
Transportation industry is now become huge market. People like to use public transportation like Uber. Public transportion is becoming popular because there is parking tension for parking like u have to face problem for your own car.If blockchian can invest in transportation industry in will remarkable for both @hatu
The transportation industry is huge; so, yes, there's a great opportunity in investments made to explore blockchain solutions in this industry.
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