Forming Analyst’s Competencies of Specialists for Modern Transport Companies

Implementation of Big Data Analysis (BDA) and intelligent analytical methods in modern transport companies is a prerequisite for their efficient functioning in the Digital Economy (DE). Integration new intelligent technologies and new organizational principles into transportation is the main reason of rapid changing functions and competences of specialists in transport companies. The paper includes justification and description of a new professional activity in modern transport systems – Transport Analyst who must be ready to solve different sophisticated cross-functional and multi-objective tasks both in technological strategy and in operational management. Development of digital competencies (DC) on transportation becomes a new direction of the educational and training programs at universities. The paper also includes some examples of analytical tasks of the implementation of Industry 4.0 elements in transport systems and a description of a new approach to the preparation of a new type of analysts for transport that are able to solve these tasks.