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Smart city and mobility

Any visit to Estonia nowadays is certainly an eye-opener. Electric scooters? Robotic parcel machines? Vehicles that drive themselves? The future is happening now and it’s fully automated.  

Smart mobility is a core component of that achievement. In Estonia’s highly advanced digital society, smart mobile solutions are part of everyday life. Estonians are able to move around seamlessly via bus, tram, train, and ship, and bypass border queues too. But that is just the surface of what the country has achieved in the smart mobility sector, as domestic companies pioneer autonomous vehicles for public transport, parcel delivery services, and cargo shipments.

Smart Freight Transportation

Estonia has taken the lead in laying the framework for standardised and universally usable paperless road transport solutions. A successfully piloted cross-border cargo information exchange on the route from Estonia to Poland was one of the first of its kind in the EU. The associated platforms and models will enable efficient communication among private sector service providers and authorities in different countries in the future and will serve as a basis for adopting upcoming eFTI regulation rules.

An automated border queue management system has been used since 2011 by freight transporters to reserve time slots and access virtual queues for waiting and passing through EU border checkpoints. This has reduced the average border crossing time from 60 hrs to 1,5 hrs. Border Control efficiency and exports have increased while access road congestion and noise and air pollution have been reduced. Similar solutions are being used at domestic ports and logistics terminals.

Autonomous parcel delivery vehicles have also become an integral part of the logistics system in Estonia since 2017. Particularly in Tallinn, they are so common that even your next pizza order might be delivered to you by a robot.

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The Briefing Centre is conveniently located just 2 minutes drive from the airport and 10 to 15 minutes drive from the city centre.

You will find us on a ground floor of Valukoja 8, central entrance behind the statue of Mr Ernst Julius Öpik. Photo of the central entrance.

Valukoja 8
11415 Tallinn, Estonia