The CCAM-ERAS Horizon Europe project¹ has published a White Paper synthesising the findings of two years of research on the socio-economic implications of Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility (CCAM). The White Paper connects evidence from stakeholder consultations, use-case analysis, economic modelling, skills foresight and policy assessment to provide a comprehensive picture of how Europe can prepare for the transition.

The analysis is articulated around the following questions: (1) How did the project build a credible evidence base for understanding the employment and skills implications of CCAM?; (2) What does the evidence indicate about changes in value chains, employment, occupational profiles?; (3) Which education, training and institutional responses are most urgent?; (4) How can we reskill the existing workforce to deal with CCAM needs?; (4) How can socio-economic considerations be embedded in mobility planning and policy?

The report highlights that employment impacts will vary across sectors, use cases and adoption pathways, depending on investment levels, deployment speed and national labour market structures. The greatest challenge in the medium term may not be the technology itself, but the ability of institutions, training systems and organisations to adapt quickly enough to changing skills requirements. The deployment of automated mobility is unlikely to lead simply to job replacement, but rather to significant changes in existing tasks and occupations. As automation advances, demand is expected to grow for roles linked to remote operations, safety monitoring, cybersecurity, software-enabled diagnostics, maintenance, customer support, while many existing occupations will require digital and supervisory skills.

A main conclusion is that technology deployment, workforce preparation and institutional capacity must be synchronised as workforce policy detached from actual operational designs and adoption pathways risks producing qualifications that do not match demand.

A sustainable pathway requires continuous skills anticipation, modular learning pathways, work-based and vendor-supported training, cross-sector governance, explicit inclusion goals, and differentiated responses for regions, sectors and occupations exposed at different speeds. The project also underlines the importance of public authorities developing their own technical, regulatory and governance skills to oversee increasingly software-driven mobility systems; but also planning and measuring socio-economic outcomes as accessibility, inclusion, employment cannot be left as assumed benefits.

Read more in the 📄 CCAM-ERAS White Paper

Source: The original article was published here.

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1. CCAM-ERAS focuses on the socio-economic transition to Connected, Cooperative, and Automated Mobility (CCAM). It aims to develop knowledge and prepare for the deployment of CCAM by addressing the necessary skills and mitigating potential job impacts. ↩︎