Convergence HTF: Future Workforce Implications of Autonomous Trucks: Workshop on the Sociotechnical Research Challenges, Benefits, and Opportunities

在新技术发展的推动下，就业和工作的格局正在迅速变化。智能、自动化的机器和服务在工作和工作场所中的比重越来越大。这些技术的潜在好处包括提高生产力，工作满意度和新的机会。但是，与工作相关的技术也会带来风险。该奖项支持的研讨会将确定与新兴自动驾驶卡车对美国经济的影响相关的研究必要性，更具体地说，自动驾驶卡车将如何影响当前和未来的卡车运输劳动力。该研讨会将促进计算机科学，交通和土木工程，自治，经济学，教育，法律，心理学和社会学的融合，以确定人类，技术和工作关系中的关键挑战和研究机会。这个融合研讨会将采用来自多个领域的知识，理论，方法和数据的深度整合，以形成新的和扩展的研究框架。结果将包括确定和共享新的研究方向和工具，以了解和利用自动驾驶汽车技术对卡车运输劳动力的价值，同时减轻潜在的负面后果。这个融合研讨会讨论了人类技术前沿工作的未来。 具体而言，本次研讨会旨在制定一个全面和综合的研究议程，从技术和社会层面调查新兴自动驾驶汽车技术对卡车运输劳动力的影响。随着自动驾驶汽车的引入，交通系统预计将发生重大变化。到2050年，80%的汽车将是自动驾驶汽车。预计这将导致每年挽救21，700人的生命，减少420万起事故，并减少交通拥堵，提高燃油效率和提高生产力。作为一种颠覆性但有益的技术，从驾驶员辅助到全自动驾驶汽车的自动驾驶汽车也将对卡车运输业产生影响。自动驾驶汽车的引入还可以为科学、技术、工程和数学员工创造新的就业机会，包括熟练的技术劳动力，为使能技术的发展做出贡献。本次研讨会将整合来自不同领域的观点，以确定与自动驾驶卡车相关的挑战，障碍，研究需求和潜在解决方案。尽管之前的工作主要集中在部署自动驾驶卡车的单个组件或孤立系统上，但拟议的研讨会将开发一种完全集成的全系统方法来解决这一问题。研讨会的与会者将代表一组专家，他们将确定最佳战略和技术，以解决自动驾驶卡车部署对美国经济的影响。主要成果之一将是一份报告，说明学术界与公共和私营部门利益攸关方合作的研究和教育机会。拟议的研讨会和未来的研究议程将最终有利于所有道路使用者和消费者，除了那些在卡车运输业工作。

The landscape of jobs and work is changing rapidly, driven by the development of new technologies. Intelligent, automated machines and services are a growing part of jobs and the workplace. The potential benefits of these technologies include increased productivity, job satisfaction, and new opportunities. But, technology connected to work can also come with risks. The workshop supported by this award will identify research imperatives related to the effects of emerging autonomous trucks on the U.S. economy and, more specifically, how autonomous trucks will affect the current and future trucking workforce. The workshop will promote the convergence of computer science, transportation and civil engineering, autonomy, economics, education, law, psychology, and sociology to define key challenges and research opportunities at the nexus of humans, technology, and work. This convergence workshop will employ deep integration of knowledge, theories, methods, and data from multiple fields to form new and expanded research frameworks. The results will include identification and sharing of new research directions and tools to understand and harness the value of autonomous vehicle technologies on the trucking workforce, while mitigating potential negative consequences. This convergence workshop addresses the future of work at the human-technology frontier. Specifically, this workshop seeks to develop a holistic and integrated research agenda for investigating the impact of emerging autonomous vehicle technologies on the trucking workforce from both technical and social dimensions. The transportation system is expected to undergo major changes with the introduction of autonomous vehicles. By 2050, 80% of vehicles will likely be autonomous vehicles. This is expected to result in an estimated 21,700 lives saved and 4.2 million fewer crashes each year as well as reduced traffic congestion, increased fuel efficiency, and increased productivity. As a disruptive yet beneficial technology, autonomous vehicles, ranging from driver assistance to fully automated vehicles, will also have implications for the trucking workforce. The introduction of AVs may also create new job opportunities for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics employees, including the skilled technical workforce, contributing to the development of enabling technology. This workshop will integrate perspectives from different domains to identify the challenges, barriers, research needs, and potential solutions related to autonomous trucks. Although previous efforts have focused on individual components or isolated systems with respect to the deployment of autonomous trucks, the proposed workshop will develop a fully integrated, system-wide approach to address this topic. The workshop attendees will represent a group of experts that will identify the optimum strategies and techniques to address the impacts of autonomous truck deployment on the U.S. economy. One of the primary outcomes will be a report describing research and education opportunities for academia, in concert with public and private sector stakeholders. The proposed workshop and future research agenda will ultimately benefit all road users and consumers in addition to those working in the trucking industry.