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

17/01/2019

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.

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