Japan's truck driver shortage is getting worse due to laws enacted earlier this year that limit drivers from working overtime. This situation, which is seen as necessary to prevent hard work and accidents and to make things bearable, is known as the ⁇ 2024 problem ⁇ around Japanese logistics, government and transportation.
Japan is planning an automated cargo transport corridor in the middle of Tokyo and Osaka. The project's financing measure is not set now, but it is seen as a valuable way to help the country deal with increasing deliveries.
In a computer graphic image prepared by the government, he is in the middle of a large highway. ⁇ automatic flow path ⁇ Large, wheeled boxes are shown moving along a three-lane corridor, also called
It is aimed that a trial system will start testing in 2027 or early 2028 and be fully operational in the mid-2030s.
Yuri Endo, a senior deputy director who oversees work at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, We need to be innovative in the way we approach roads. The basic concept of the automatic flow path is to create special areas for logistics within the road network using a 24-hour automated and unmanned transportation system ⁇ He said it.
Endo said the system will help offset the declining workforce and reduce drivers' workload, as well as reduce carbon emissions.
SWITZERLAND AND ENGLAND ARE ALSO EVALUATED
This plan is also priced in Switzerland and England. The plan in Switzerland will include an underground road, while the plan in London will be a fully automated system powered by low-cost linear motors.
In Japan, loading will be automated using forklifts and coordinated with airports, railways and ports.
The system, which is also designed for business deliveries, can be extended to other routes if all goes well. Although driverless technology may be used in the future, human drivers may need to make last mile deliveries to people's doors again.
According to the government's assumptions, under the current conditions, Japan's total transport capacity is expected to increase by 2030. %It will fall by 34%. According to the Japan Truckers Association, the domestic transport capacity is approximately 4.3 billion metric tons, of which almost all or %More than 91 are carried out by trucks.
According to government information, demand for deliveries from online shopping increased during the pandemic, even as the general population continued to decline as the birth rate declined, and users found that Japanese households had an approximate %From the 40 %He went over 60.
In recent years, the annual death toll from the collision of delivery trucks on the roads is about a thousand. While this number is better than nearly 2,000 deaths in 2010, the Truckers Association, which brings together nearly 400 trucking businesses and organizations in the country, wants to make deliveries even more credible.
