Changing demand patterns with e-commerce that has increased the need for personalized deliveries and reverse logistics, policy mandates driving the environmental sustainability and traffic safety agendas, fuel price volatility and new opportunities offered by technological advances are driving transportation companies and truck OEMs to work together to re-imagine the future of trucking. Connected, Autonomous and Electric trucks are on the roadmap of all OEMs, but they will be adopted (because of different safety, TCO, and organizational change barriers) at different speed.
What is the IET community's view on the different horizons of adoption of Connected, Autonomous, Electric trucking? What are the good practices that are emerging, both in terms of technology adoption and new business models enabled by technology advances?
