Print Email Facebook Twitter Intralog Towards an autonomous system for handling inter-terminal container transport Title Intralog Towards an autonomous system for handling inter-terminal container transport Author Spruijt, Adrie (Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences) van Duin, Ron (TU Delft Transport and Logistics) Rieck, Frank (Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences) Date 2017 Abstract As part of the National Transition Board Practice Research Raak/SIA program, the INTRALOG (intelligent Truck Application in Logistics) project investigated the practical application of zero emission Automatic Guided Trucks (AGTs) for the transport of containers in the Harbour Industrial Cluster (HIC) in the port of Rotterdam. The introduction of zero emission autonomous trucks is facing a couple of barriers and challenges which are discussed in this paper. Autonomous driving is still under development and the application of batteries in heavy trucking is not yet feasible, because of their relatively low energy density versus fossil fuels. Carrying heavy batteries reduces the payload and therefore complicates the financial feasibility of electric propulsion with batteries.Analysis of the container flows at the port area of Rotterdam has shown a big difference based on distance, closed track or open road, type of energy, and energy distribution. In terms of organization, five different situations can be distinguished: (i) Central Exchange Route (CER), (ii)Inter-terminal, (iii) DCs (Distribution Centres) in HIC, (iv) (intermodal) inland terminals in the Netherlands and (v) the long-distance transport. The CER proves to be an ideal solution to start the introduction of zero emission AGTs. In terms of innovative technology all lights for actual implementation have been switched into green. However, the major challenge now emerging at the Port of Rotterdam is how to mobilize all key stakeholders in such a way that the estimated benefits outweigh estimated costs and really leads to the implementation of this new autonomous and zero emission system in practice. Subject Autonomous truck driving,zero emissionfreight transportheavy duty vehicles To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9026d12a-0f9c-4a6b-a3fa-6c04f8668102 Source Proceedings of EVS30 Symposium: EVS30 International Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Symposium Event EVS30 Symposium, 2017-10-09 → 2017-10-11, Stuttgart, Germany Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2017 Adrie Spruijt, Ron van Duin, Frank Rieck Files PDF EVS30_10440662_Intralog_a ... V6_1as.pdf 1.19 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:9026d12a-0f9c-4a6b-a3fa-6c04f8668102/datastream/OBJ/view