Transport and Logistics
The Transport and Logistics sector in Australia employs nearly half a million people across its major subsectors:
- Road transport
- Logistics
- Warehousing and stevedoring
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The Transport and Logistics IRC’s 2018 Skills Forecast highlights, that the industry is rapidly being affected by new technologies and innovations, requiring the workforce to be equipped with the necessary digital skills.
The following quotes below from the Transport and Logistics IRC Skills Forecast demonstrate why digital skills have been highlighted as a priority in this industry sector.
The advent of Industry 4.0 (the next industrial revolution incorporating complex computerised systems, data and software to create ‘smart’ processes and products) will rapidly change the skill needs of the Transport and Logistics workforce. Jobs that were highly manual less than a generation ago, including bus and truck driving, are being reshaped with new technologies and equipment.
The ever-increasing volume of data being captured by sensors and subject[ed] to analysis, is further transforming the skill needs of the Transport and Logistics industry, greatly increasing the demand for the workforce to be able to interpret and analyse this data in a meaningful, digitally literate manner.