Issue (WIWE) status: Submitted, Unpublished
Wild Card's progress: Fully-fledged
This Wild Card came from:
European Commission Framework Programme for RTD
The theme/scheme related to this Wild Card:
Theme 7 - Transport (including aeronautics)
The sub-theme that best relates to this Wild Card:
AAT: Increasing time efficiency
Likelihood timeframe and scenario features :
now-2050
Wild Card's description:
The increasing dependence of travelers and logistics - particularly freight traffic by road - on electronic route optimisation creates an overload in the system. A breakdown of the European transportation network ensues and impairs supply chains for industrial and commercial goods.
Sometimes people donĀ“t know from which country the product comes from and suddenly they really aware of how difficult it can be a port when they find the product on the shelves of their local supermarket or shop. Until there is a jam like that quote the text, people do not value what you have at your fingertips.