A method and apparatus are presented for a collective transportation system. The system comprises a plurality of container automated vehicles and a plurality of containable automated vehicles each of which may be contained in a container vehicle, so that one or more containable vehicles are nested within a containable vehicle and may be transported by the container. The containable vehicles may move around within the interior of a container, preferably under control of a controller which controls the motion of all the containable vehicles within a container vehicle, so that the controller can rearrange the contained vehicles within the container. Preferably, two container vehicles can dock with each other to exchange containable vehicles between them, under control of a controller. Preferably, dockings and transfers may occur while the container vehicles are moving. An end-to-end journey by a containable vehicle may entail many transfers between container vehicles along the way
Collective Transportation Systems
2017-12-14
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B60P Fahrzeuge zum Transport von Lasten oder zum Befördern, Tragen oder Aufnehmen besonderer Lasten oder Gegenstände , VEHICLES ADAPTED FOR LOAD TRANSPORTATION OR TO TRANSPORT, TO CARRY, OR TO COMPRISE SPECIAL LOADS OR OBJECTS / B62D MOTOR VEHICLES , Motorfahrzeuge / G05D SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES , Systeme zum Steuern oder Regeln nichtelektrischer veränderlicher Größen |
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