Analysys 易观智库将电子商务B2B 业务定义为：以电子商务B2B 平台以及大数据为基础，通过整合产业链上下游资源完成企业与企业之间的营销关系的电子商务活动，包括信息与交易服务、商业搜索引擎服务、金融服务、云端服务等。

根据艾瑞监测数据，2014年中国在线旅游市场交易规模达3077.9亿元，比去年增长38.9%，占旅游业总收入的比重为9.2%，比去年提升1.7个百分点。

2014 年中国网上零售B2C 市场规模达1.37 万亿元，同比增长65.3%。随着多年的发展，网上零售B2C 市场无论从技术层面，运营层面，还是市场层面，都达到一个相当的水平，中国网上零售B2C 市场已进入成熟阶段。

据国家旅游局发布的统计数据显示，上半年国内旅游人数20.24 亿人次，同比增长9.9%；国内旅游消费1.65 万亿元，增长14.5%，比社会消费品零售总额增速高4.1 个百分点。

报告从行业事件分析、政策环境、经济环境、产业链环境、国际环境、储运、快递、第三方物流、物流金融以及相关行业数据方面对物流行业进行了分析评论。

本报告定义在线旅游市场为在线旅游B2C市场，指在线旅游服务提供商通过互联网或呼叫中心，以线上或线下多种支付形式，为用户提供交通、住宿、度假旅游等旅游产品的综合信息检索、咨询与预订服务。本报告中的在线旅游市场包括在线交通预订、在线住宿预订、在线度假旅游三个细分市场。

Warehousing refers to a process of storing goods and materials in a large storage facility known as a warehouse. Warehouse operators offer different kinds of service to customers such as loading and unloading, inventory management tools, and other supply-chain-related services. In addition, they provide a wide range of value-added services such as assortment and grading, packaging and labeling, and shipping services. Warehousing services improve logistics effectiveness by introducing a new and innovative SCM system. The warehouse industry in the US is also introducing some major advances in technology such as RF barcode scanners, computerized vehicle routing, document automation, cloud technology for advanced 3PL, and real-time monitoring systems.

The term 3PL refers to third-party logistics, which essentially involves a vendor catering to the logistics and distribution management of outsourced products and services of various companies.

Contract logistics is the outsourcing of various elements of logistics and distribution by companies to 3PL (third-party logistics) solution providers. These companies outsource some or all of their SCM (supply chain management) functions such as transportation, warehousing, location tracking, and integration operation services. Often, these providers also offer value-added services such as inventory management, crossdocking, door-to-door delivery, and product packaging. The need for efficiency in delivery, inventory management, and freight forwarding is propelling the demand for contract logistics in South America.

The industrial Internet of things (IIoT), also called the Industrial Internet or Industry 4.0, is a network of physical devices, sensors, and machines connected to the Internet for effective communication of data. IIoT enhances operational efficiency and, therefore, business productivity in any industrial setup; the technology also helps to monitor and control industrial operations from a remote location. Advanced analytics, when applied to the vast amounts of data generated by connected devices, helps enterprises and the scientific community make intelligent decisions underpinned by powerful insights.

This report surveys the state-of-practice of transit railcar maintenance management and fleet management practices. It emphasizes a lifecycle management approach to fleet management. It also emphasizes the role of performance improvement programs and introduces Reliability-Centered Maintenance and Total Productive Maintenance as key examples of performance improvement approaches. The report also covers planning and performance measurement for rail fleet maintenance, as well as the role of supporting business processes and systems in railcar maintenance, including new vehicle procurement, facility upgrades, maintenance information systems, and purchasing and materials management.

Urban mobility is not only one of the pillars of modern economic systems, but also a key issue in the quest for equality of opportunity, once it can improve access to other services. Currently, however, there are a number of negative issues related to traffic, especially in mega-cities, such as economical issues (cost of opportunity caused by delays), environmental (externalities related to emissions of pollutants), and social (traffic accidents). Solutions to these issues are more and more closely tied to information and communication technology. Indeed, a search in the technical literature (using the keyword "urban traffic" to filter out articles on data network traffic) retrieved the following number of articles (as of December 3, 2013): 9,443 (ACM Digital Library), 26,054 (Scopus), and 1,730,000 (Google Scholar). Moreover, articles listed in the ACM query relate to conferences as diverse as MobiCom, CHI, PADS, and AAMAS. This means that there is a big and diverse community of computer scientists and computer engineers who tackle research that is connected to the development of intelligent traffic and transportation systems. It is also possible to see that this community is growing, and that research projects are getting more and more interdisciplinary. To foster the cooperation among the involved communities, this book aims at giving a broad introduction into the basic but relevant concepts related to transportation systems, targeting researchers and practitioners from computer science and information technology. In addition, the second part of the book gives a panorama of some of the most exciting and newest technologies, originating in computer science and computer engineering, that are now being employed in projects related to car-to-car communication, interconnected vehicles, car navigation, platoon-ing, crowd sensing and sensor networks, among others. This material will also be of interest to engineers and researchers from the traffic and transportation community.