Technology And Innovation In Urban Mobility

Innovation and Technology Management

Technology and Innovation in Urban Mobility

Automatic Guided Vehicles

Prof. Umberto La Commare

Bárbara de Alencar Pitombeira Laís Miwa Shiozawa

Palermo, January 26th, 2012

Summary
1. 2. Introduction ........................................................................................................ 4 Growth in Cities.................................................................................................. 5 2.1 2.2 2.3 3. Urbanization................................................................................................. 5 Issues of a growing city ............................................................................... 7 Challenges for transportation....................................................................... 7

Solutions on Transportation ............................................................................. 10 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Common Bus ............................................................................................. 10 Bus Rapid Transit ...................................................................................... 11 Tram.......................................................................................................... 11 Metro and Urban Train ............................................................................... 12

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Automatic Guidance ......................................................................................... 13 4.1 4.2 Definition.................................................................................................... 13 Automatic Guidance for Buses .................................................................. 13

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Magnetic Guidance .......................................................................................... 14 5.1 Operation System and Architecture ........................................................... 14

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Advantages of Magnetic Guidance.................................................................. 16 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Safety ........................................................................................................ 16 Parking Precision ....................................................................................... 16 Time Precision........................................................................................... 17 Traffic on narrow roads .............................................................................. 18 Economy .................................................................................................... 19

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Companies Developing Automatic Guidance for Buses ................................... 20 7.1 7.2 7.3 COMPSIS in the city of SãoPaulo............................................................. 20 APTS (Advances Public Transport Systems) ............................................ 21 Universities developing Magnetic Guidance .............................................. 24

7.3.1 University of Berkley ................................................................................. 24 7.3.1 Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo................................... 24 8. 9. Conclusion ....................................................................................................... 26 Bibliography ..................................................................................................... 27

1. Introduction
Mobility in cities has become a really important issue to the society. With the growth of population incities, and the cities itself, more people must travel long distances every day to reach their working, studying and any other kind of places. All essential services for the society must be located in places that are accessible for anyone. For that reason the necessity of a good and reliable public transportation is increasing and with that comes the necessity of new ways of moving from a point to...