Technical design and implementation of a new transport concept: Combi-Road
conference paper
Combi-Road is a new transport concept for containers that has been developed in The Netherlands. For the transport of containers, an unmanned automated guided vehicle is used that runs on a dedicated track. This paper discusses the development process of the vehicle guidance- and communication system. The various systems have been developed in paralell to get an early overview of the cost of realisation and utilisation of the vehicle and communication system. Generally, the same development steps have been made for both the vehicle design and the communication system before all systems were integrated in a prototype. This prototype has been tested on a full functionality track where all interactions between the systems have been investigated under a wide range of conditions. This has provided important information for the design of the systems in a short time.
TNO Identifier
362319
Source title
Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress on Safety of Transportation, 18-20 February, 1998, Delft, The Netherlands
Collation
8 p.
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