Title: Automated Road Vehicles Developments during 2005 Robert Johnson R. E. Johnson Consulting Rockville, Maryland www.autoroadvehicles.com Advanced Transit Association Technical Seminar January 22, 2006
1Automated Road VehiclesDevelopments during 2005
Robert JohnsonR. E. Johnson
ConsultingRockville, Marylandwww.autoroadvehicle
s.comAdvanced Transit Association Technical
SeminarJanuary 22, 2006
2Automated Road Vehicles
- Steer themselves on a flat surface
- No mechanical constraint
- Self contained power source
- All sizes 4 passenger to 50 passenger
- Also called
- Automated (or Automatic) Guided Vehicles
- Road based people movers
3ULTra 4-passenger vehicle
4Original ParkShuttle in Airport Parking Lot
5Major Developments During 2005
- EU-China Project (began December 2004)
- Toyota IMTS bus at EXPO 2005 in Japan
- BAA selects ULTra for Heathrow airport
- Grand Challenge has five finishers
- ParkShuttle II begins operation near Rotterdam
6Grand Challenge 2005
- Winner was Stanley, a Volkswagen SUV entered by
Stanford University - 2 million prize
- 132 mile course
- Much more difficult than controlling Automated
Road Vehicle (ARV) - But ARV must be more reliable
7TRB Session 732 on Automated Road Vehicles
Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2006, 430 - 600, Hilton
- Benefits and Operation of Hybrid-Electric Road
Trains, Bruce McHenry - CyberC3 Cybercar Automated Vehicles in China,
Ming Yang, et al. - Automated Chain Mobility Each Mode Its Own
Niche, Robbert Lohmann - Personal Rapid Transit in Relation to Other Forms
of Automated Transport, Martin Lowson
8Hybrid-Electric Road Trains
- Session devoted to road trains at 12th World
Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems,
November 2005 - All-electric vehicles might be physically coupled
to form road trains led by manually driven ICE
or electric vehicles - Could triple lane capacity, double fuel economy
- Could be combined with electric short-term rental
cars that are redistributed at low speed by
robotic driving
9CyberC3 Cybercar Automated Vehicles in China
10For the trial program in Century Park.vehicles
will be connected with a central controlling
system to carry tourists around the
parkPassengers choose their destination stop
after boarding and get off when the car stops --
just like an elevator
11CyberC3 Test Vehicle
12ParkShuttle II
13ParkShuttle II Vehicles at Station
14Grand Opening December 1, 2005Prime Minister
Balkenende rides the ParkShuttle
15Toyota IMTS bus at EXPO 2005
- Intelligent Multi-mode Transport System
- Driverless platoons on exclusive roadway
- Manual operation of single bus on ordinary
streets - 30 km/hr (19 mph) max at EXPO 2005
16Toyota IMTS bus at station
17Toyota IMTS Platoon at Station
18 Toyota IMTS Interior
19Toyota IMTS Operators Compartment with
Transparent Wall (Morizo at wheel)
20For more information aboutAutomated Road
VehiclesPlease see www.autoroadvehicles.com