Disputable Questions of the Use of Digital Technologies in Transportation

Abstract

The article is devoted to the implementation of digital technologies in transportation. Nowadays the necessity and advantage of their use are not argued. However, along with the positive effect of the digital technologies in the sphere of transportation there is the other side of the coin. Firstly, it is the absence of common approach to the legal regulation of implementation of digital technologies in different countries. According to analysis, the national legislations operate with notions that sometimes are not used in other legislations or have some differences in the meaning. Such approach is not appropriate in international transportation as it creates obstacles that disturbs the transportation itself. The difference is intensified by the technical aspect. Each country has its own companies that elaborate the technical issues of the digital technologies implementation. Nowadays there is no single criteria for the developers of the software used in technical objects. Different approaches in the creation can leads to the situation when intelligent objects could not recognize each other and as the result there will be no any connection and interaction between vehicles and infrastructure itself that are deemed to the core objects of digital technologies in transportation. Secondly, there is a phenomenon that shows that on the one hand, modern society depend on appeared digital technologies. On the other hand, the majority of people are afraid of new technologies as they bring uncertainty and unknown. Moreover, digital technologies in transportation is the easy target for violation right and interests of users. This problem requires the consolidation of forces of all countries to overcome it and protect certain person, society and the state itself from the threat created by implementation of digital technologies. In spite of great amount of articles written in this field, there is no single approach for the solving of the problem. This fact makes the topic of research topical and worth of attention.

Keywords

• digital technologies, transportation, automated vehicles, cyber crime