The CCAM-ERAS project anticipates the labour market challenges that will accompany the deployment of Connected, Cooperative, and Automated Mobility (CCAM). Its main ambition is to ensure that Europe captures the benefits of large-scale CCAM adoption while limiting negative effects. The project also seeks to build a more inclusive transport system, tackling gender imbalance, improving accessibility for vulnerable groups, and raising awareness among stakeholders and the wider public.To achieve this, CCAM-ERAS will create a European stakeholder community that focuses on the socio-economic and skills dimensions of CCAM. This network will provide a long-term platform for dialogue between industry, policymakers, and education providers. Alongside it, an innovation radar will monitor technological progress, identifying developments with the greatest impact on employment and skills.
The project will also deliver an interactive online tool to estimate employment effects under different scenarios, using the E3ME macro-econometric model. In addition, a social impact assessment model for passenger and freight transport will analyse wider economic and social consequences.Based on use cases from the innovation radar, CCAM-ERAS will propose new curricula, lifelong learning initiatives, and reskilling and upskilling programmes. These measures will prepare the workforce for new roles, reduce the risk of job displacement, and ensure that technological progress translates into shared opportunities.The results will converge in a roadmap that outlines strategies for the socio-economic transition to CCAM. It will highlight prerequisites for job growth, identify innovation opportunities, and anticipate future skills demand, while also addressing risks such as job relocation and unemployment.By leaving behind a stakeholder community, an innovation radar, impact assessment tools, and education proposals, CCAM-ERAS ensures that its benefits extend beyond the project’s lifetime. It offers policymakers, industry, and educators the knowledge and instruments needed for a fair and sustainable transition. In doing so, it recognises that the deployment of CCAM is not only a technological challenge but also a social one, requiring preparedness, inclusiveness, and a long-term vision.
