Public Sector

IHS Automotive Consulting helps public sector professionals at the national and supra-national levels involved in regulating and promoting the automotive industry with these types of pressing concerns:

• Changing technologies 
• Regulatory impact on the industry: emissions policies, safety regulations and alternative fuel requirements
• Impact of fuel market fundamentals on legislative and regulatory decisions 
• Unintended consequences of fuel policy choices

IHS Automotive Consulting helps public sector professionals make policy and regulatory decisions relating to the automotive industry through services such as: 

Technology Forecasts
Automotive consultants can perform an analysis for public agencies relating to the evolution of technologies specific to individual markets or companies. Leveraging our proprietary data and syndicated research, our consultants can project the expected pathway a technology will take based on various factors. 

Impact Assessment

Automotive Consulting leverages the broad expertise across IHS to furnish public agencies with scenario-based impact assessments of regulatory policy on jobs, costs, the evolution of vehicles, components or technologies and the outlook for companies as a whole. Clients receive a report, based on a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis that can offer insights into the rationale for a policy change or suggest how government could promote innovation and competition in the automobile industry

Custom Market Sector Forecasts
IHS puts several hundred econometric modelers at your service, providing off-the-shelf as well as custom-developed forecasts for virtually anything for which there is associated historical data. We can provide your forecasts under standardized IHS Automotive Scenarios as well as in the form of alternative outlooks specifically developed for you. You can use our forecasts to inform your policy decisions and to compare them with regulatory policies of other countries.