Efforts to Implement Logistics Business Using Level 4 Autonomous Trucks on the Expressway

Abstract

Truck transportation plays a role as a social infrastructure for logistics and is indispensable for the industrial and social activities that are the lifeblood of people's lives and economic activities. In the logistics industry, where there is a pressing need to restructure the transportation system owing to work-style reform laws, such as the curbing of long working hours, and to respond to the shortage of drivers due to the declining birthrate and aging population, one solution is the introduction of level 4 autonomous trucks for highway transportation. The current situation and issues regarding the efforts are summarized.