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This makes virtual rails a fraction the price of an existing tramway to install due requiring very little extra physical infrastructure. In fact the only requirement for any infrastructure at all is simply to alert people and traffic to the fact that a virtual rail exists here and as such keep a vigilant eye, a bit of paint showing where the virtual rails are and you are ready to run.<\/p>\n<p>The GOBOTiX\u00a0vision of how robotics and autonomous vehicles can actually improve transport in a safe and reliable way is to be realised by the collaborative development of our\u00a0Virtual Tramway concept. The plan is to deliver this using a relatively fixed path autonomous bus\u00a0service. There will be modifications to infrastructure at junctions to aid the vehicle, much like a tram would require, but essentially the rest is just paint and highly resilient, high bandwidth, wireless communications. The project will be delivered\u00a0through a \u00a0consortium of companies and institutions called &#8220;Concentricity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>See full article\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/travelspirit.io\/news\/boltonian-firm-take-on-leadership-role-in-shared-ecav-opportunity\/\">http:\/\/travelspirit.io\/news\/boltonian-firm-take-on-leadership-role-in-shared-ecav-opportunity\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOBOTiX&#8217;s Virtual Tramway &#8211;\u00a0autonomous buses on virtual rails &#8220;Where we&#8217;re going we don&#8217;t need rails &#8211; rather we need Virtual Rails.&#8221;\u00a0Dr Ben Davis, Founder Virtual rails\u00a0are like ordinary rails, they guide the vehicle which rides upon them, the only notable difference being they only reside in the virtual world, i.e the mind (mission planner) of  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,64,43],"tags":[77,79,78,73,76,80,74,75],"class_list":["post-12507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-concentricity","category-gateway","category-oxts","tag-autonomous","tag-autonomy","tag-bus","tag-concentricity","tag-rail","tag-robot","tag-tramway","tag-virtual"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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