We-Transform: Addressing AV Workforce Needs in Europe

The EU H2020 project WE-TRANSFORM aims to address the impacts of transport digitalisation and automation on the workforce by bringing stakeholders together to establish a comprehensive knowledge base from which to inform policymaking. The objective of this study is to identify the relevant implications of automation and digitalisation impacts on workforce in transport sector, also offering a representation of the recommendations emerged by the stakeholders during the project. The results show that the main impacts of digitalisation and automation on workforce are related to work organisation, tasks (level and contractual legal employment category), and skills. Such impacts show legal implications and their transversality to the different regulatory policies emerged from the discussion with the stakeholders, and underline how an harmonisation at EU level is requested, implying important reflections at the political level.