How AI has helped in the transportation of vaccine delivery for COVID-19

While driverless trucks may once have seemed like a vision from far off in the future, rapid developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning have placed us on the brink of a new automation age, starting with how we transport goods. Although the logistics sector can sometimes fall behind other early-adopting industries, a 2017 McKinsey study showed that transportation companies using a proactive AI strategy had higher profit margins compared to those that did not. For example, AI techniques can help with continuous estimation, optimising the routing of delivery traffic to avoid congestion and other disruptions. One European trucking company lowered their fuel costs by 15 per cent by using sensors tracking vehicle performance and driver behaviour. AI technology coached drivers in real-time, telling them when to speed up or slow down, which in turn increased fuel efficiency, reduced delivery times and brought down maintenance costs.