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Section outline

  • Expected Outcomes

    • Better definition of the operational automation requirements for seamless multimodal automatic freight transport.
    • Clearly assessed benefits, in terms of reduced social and environmental impacts (e.g. GHG, congestion, working conditions, employment rate and safety) and reduced logistics and freight transport costs, as well as technological gaps of hubs’ automation.
    • Strategies to reduce the investment cost in this sector and support the implementation of automated solutions for logistics and multimodal freight transport are proposed.
    • Recommendations for possible regulatory and policy actions.
    • Synergies are established among rail, road, aviation, waterborne and alternative innovative modes of transport research actions on automation relevant for freight transport (e.g. links to CCAM and Zero Emission Waterborne Transport Partnerships, and EU Rail JU Flagship Areas 1, 2 and 5).