On the Relevance of and Approaches Towards the Start of Transportation of Goods Across the Customs Border of the Eurasian Economic Union by Highly Automated Transport Vehicles

The article reviews relevant issues of transportation of goods across the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union by highly automated unmanned transport vehicles. The authors describe the history and the basis for the organization of experimental unmanned cargo transportation between logistics centers in Blagoveschensk (Russia) and Heihe (China) using the bridge across the Amur river. The paper singles out positive effects from the use of unmanned transport vehicles for cargo transportations and analyzes practical technological issues associated with the use of unmanned transport vehicles. The authors bring forward a proposal about the need for the legal consolidation of movement of unmanned transport within the framework of international transport routes.