The biggest wins will be making freight in far flung places a lot cheaper. Lots of northern Ontario will become cheaper to live in, and that means less growth for big cities…
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Arguably, freight in central cities is kind of a legacy issue of their historic role as central places. But moving freight yards is hard, because you need a big contiguous area, and those simply don't exist in even moderately central locations.
I just mean that if you want to live in northern ontario, most of your stuff comes by truck...and we are paying 29$/hour for the driver...in some places it's 6+ hours from the nearest major shipping hub...even more in some places...
The highways between cities are totally amenable to automated trucking. Loading zones at peripheral warehouses likely also. But the last mile for delivery is a pain--extremely nonstandard, so difficult to automate, especially as the way many deliveries done (double parking) technically illegal.
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