News / As automation advances, transport workers must be helped to develop new skills

Automation is noting new, as this 2007 image of a power plant control room shows Source: Achim Hering

Governments and industry must ensure access to the skills of the future as automation and artificial intelligence reshapes the transport sector, urges a new report.

More than 168 million people work in transport worldwide, with 87% making up the low- (15%) and medium- (72%) skilled workforce.

Jens-Uwe Schroder-Hinrichs, of the World Maritime University (WMU), said it would be these workers most affected by change.

However, he added: “The pace of introduction of these new technologies will not be as fast as some publications ...