On December 15, Narita International Airport and Chiba Prefecture held a ceremony to mark the joint commencement of a demonstration experiment of an automated logistics road system for implementation at Narita Airport. The demonstration experiment is scheduled to be completed within the fiscal year.
<Scenes from the demonstration experiment>
An automated logistics road refers to a new logistics system that utilizes dedicated logistics spaces within road infrastructure and transports goods using unmanned and automated means of transport powered by clean energy.
<Implementation structure for the demonstration experiment>
The demonstration experiment on the 15th took place at the Tenjinmine Tunnel on the Narita-Omigawa-Kashima Port Prefectural Road. Nagase Techno Service provided a towing tractor and Taisei Corporation provided an autonomous vehicle as transport equipment, and this was the first time in the field of automated logistics roads that transport equipment was driven autonomously on land adjacent to a road that is currently in use.
Cuebus, which develops linear motor-type transport equipment, PLiBOT, which provides AMRs and other products, as well as Obayashi Corporation, Tracteasy LLC, and ecoro GmbH are participating, and they plan to use various types of transport equipment, including automated carts and non-autonomous types, in the future. Narita International Airport, Chiba Prefecture, and the participating companies will work together to conduct demonstration experiments.
