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In the port of Singapore a system of truck will be experienced platooning
the system of transport with convoys of truck to seed-automated guide will be defined in collaboration with Scania and Toyota
January 9, 2017
The Ministry of Transportation of Singapore and terminalista group PSA has signed an agreement with the producers of motor vehicles Scania and Toyota Tsusho in order to plan and to realize a system of transport with convoys of truck to seed-automated guide. Initially the system of truck platooning will be experienced for the transport of container from a terminal of the port of Singapore to another harbour terminal in the same port of call.
The new system of convoys of seed-automated trucks will be experienced in two phases in the arc of the three years that will finish 2019 in December. The first phase, of the duration of a year, will be dedicated to the planning, experimentation and setting up of a technology of truck platooning adapt to the local conditions of transport and traffic. These activities will be realized by Scania and Toyota in the respective research centers in Sweden and Japan. On the base of the outcomes of such experimentations the Ministry and the terminalista group of Singapore will choose one of the two companies with which putting into effect the second phase of the project, that it will consist in leading travels of test to Singapore on a street feature along ten kilometers and to ulteriorly put to point the technology.
"So as we know it now - it has explained Pang Kin Keong, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Transportation and president of the Committee on Autonomous Road Transport in Singapore (CARTS) - that of the road haulage is a field to high intensity of labor and must tackle to a deficiency of truck drivers. Under this aspect the technology of the truck platooning offers the opportunity to increase the productivity to us is in the harbour field that in that of the road haulage. Moreover it will open new opportunity for the haulers who will be able to carry out more qualified roles as managers of the fleet and manager".
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The Ministry of Transportation of Singapore and terminalista group PSA has signed an agreement with the producers of motor vehicles Scania and Toyota Tsusho in order to plan and to realize a system of transport with convoys of truck to seed-automated guide. Initially the system of truck platooning will be experienced for the transport of container from a terminal of the port of Singapore to another harbour terminal in the same port of call.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
