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Method for Platooning of Vehicles in an Automated Vehicle System

  • US 20110184596A1
  • Filed: 05/26/2009
  • Published: 07/28/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of increasing track capacity in an automated vehicle system, the automated vehicle system comprising a network of tracks along which vehicles are adapted to travel, the network comprising at least one merge point at which at least two upstream tracks merge to form a downstream track, at least one diverge point at which one upstream track diverges to form at least two downstream tracks and a plurality of stations at which passengers may board and/or disembark from the vehicles;

  • wherein the method comprises controlling vehicles so as to cause empty vehicles to travel as at least one sequence of empty vehicles; and

    controlling the empty vehicles of the at least one sequence to travel with a first safety distance between each other, the first safety distance being shorter than a second safety distance between vehicles being at least partially loaded.

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