(AOF) – Navya, a leader in autonomous mobility systems, and its partner Charlatte Manutention, both forming the Charlatte Autonom subsidiary, announce the deployment of their Tract Autonom AT135 solution at Frankfurt Airport, Germany, as part of their collaboration with the airport operator Fraport.
The Tract Charlatte Autonom AT 135 will connect the future Terminal 3 to Terminal 2 at Frankfurt airport over 8 km. Two routes have been deployed, for two different use cases: on the one hand, a route with a convoy of baggage trailers, on an indoor and outdoor route; on the other hand, a journey on an outdoor cargo flow only, with large cargo trailers.
The solution will therefore have to cross paths with other vehicles, tractors, tankers, ground support equipment (GSE) and, of course, the airport site team.
These routes integrate the different scenarios that an autonomous vehicle may encounter on an airport site and allow the solution to be validated in real conditions by evaluating the technology, safety and economic profitability of the vehicle.
At the end of this experiment, Fraport will be able to project the solution in the short term on different types of flows (baggage or freight).
Olivier Le Cornec, Chairman of the Executive Board of Navya: “With more than 75.5 million passengers in 2019, Frankfurt Airport, Germany’s leading airport and Europe’s third airport serving the largest number of international destinations, is an ideal site to experiment and develop the Tract Charlatte Autonom AT 135. ”
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