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Opportunities for the use of autonomous vehicles in the management of road freight transport processes within the European Union

ISSN printed: 1733-8670, ISSN on-line: 2392-0378
Prokopiuk, Iryna1
URI: https://repository.am.szczecin.pl/handle/123456789/2817
2024-03-30
The topic of autonomous vehicles has become popular in recent years, not only because of technological developments but also because of existing challenges in the transportation industry. Autonomization of means of transport has an element of competitive advantage among manufacturers of such vehicles. For their customers ‒ i.e., transport companies ‒ this, in turn, means greater safety, greater driving comfort, and the ability to stay in the market and not fold when such a company runs out of drivers. Over the past few years, we have dealt with such a situation ‒ on the one hand, we have seen a growing trend in the amount of cargo to be transported and, on the other hand, there is a decline in employment in the transport sector (especially cargo). The supply of labor in the industry does not cover the demand for this workforce. The goal of this research is to determine the current state of the cargo transportation sector and to formulate possible advantages and disadvantages of the partial introduction of autonomous vehicles performing cargo transportation as a response to existing threats in the industry
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Title

Opportunities for the use of autonomous vehicles in the management of road freight transport processes within the European Union

Pages

Figures

1

Tables

4

ISSN printed

1733-8670

ISSN on-line

2392-0378

DOI

10.17402/600

Type

Original scientific article

Journal

77 Scientific Journals of the Maritime University of Szczecin, no. 77 / 2024

Publisher

Scientific Journals Maritime University of Szczecin, Zeszyty Naukowe Akademia Morska w Szczecinie

Copyright Holder

Scientific Journals Maritime University of Szczecin, Zeszyty Naukowe Akademia Morska w Szczecinie

Published

2024-03-30

Recieved

2023-05-09

Accepted

2024-03-05

Funding

No data

Keywords

autonomous transport, driverless transport, EU freight market, transport sector, lack of drivers, autonomous vehicles marke

URI:

https://repository.am.szczecin.pl/handle/123456789/2817

Language

English

Authors

Prokopiuk, Iryna1

Affiliation

1 University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów 2 Sucharskiego St., 35-225 Rzeszów, Poland, iprokopiuk@wsiz.edu.pl

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