Underground Freight Transportation. A new development for automated freight transportation systems in the Netherlands

Author

Pielage, Ben-Jaap

Author_Institution

Fac. Design, Eng. & Production, Delft Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

762

Lastpage

767

Abstract

Underground freight transportation (UFT) is introduced as a possible alternative for transporting freight. The latest developments on UFT in the Netherlands are discussed and the OLS-ASH project is used to illustrate the designing of such highly automated freight transportation systems. The prototyping and testing performed for this system are briefly presented and some general conclusions resulting from the UFT studies in the Netherlands are discussed. The goal of this paper is to present UFT as a new development for automated freight transportation systems and discuss some of the transport technological aspects as they may be of interest for future developments in intelligent transportation systems

Keywords

materials handling; traffic engineering computing; transportation; Netherlands; UFT; freight transportation; intelligent transportation; prototyping; underground freight transportation; Airports; Design engineering; Intelligent transportation systems; Joining processes; Logistics; Performance evaluation; Production systems; Prototypes; System testing; Urban areas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 IEEE

Conference_Location

Oakland, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7194-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITSC.2001.948756

Filename

948756