Self driving plant to be standard on road jobs by 2035

The use of driver-less machines on site could boost productivity by £400bn while slashing accident rates.

Connected and autonomous plant (CAP) has already been used on the A14 improvement project where automated dump trucks were trialled.

Now Highways England with partners TRL and the Infrastructure Industry Innovation Partnership (i3P), has set out plans for the use of CAP techniques to become standard industry practice by 2035.

It predicts that adoption of this technology across the construction sector could:

reduce site fatalities by 37%
improve productivity by up to £400bn by 2040
see annual savings of £53bn across new construction work
assist with 47% of construction activities currently performed

updated: 15/06/2020