Amsterdam is to start testing driverless electric boats on its canals. The Dutch city’s more than 60 miles of waterways will host prototypes of fully-autonomous electric vessels, to carry out tasks including transporting passengers and picking up waste. Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions and Massachusetts Institute of Technology are collaborating on the Roboat project that aims to develop new ways of navigating the world’s waterways without a human hand at the wheel.
Amsterdam is to start testing driverless electric boats on its canals.
The Dutch city’s more than 60 miles of waterways will host prototypes of fully-autonomous electric vessels, to carry out tasks including transporting passengers and picking up waste.
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Electric cars, meet your competition. Electric boats are on the way. Amsterdam didn’t have to look very far when searching for a way to ease traffic on its congested streets. The Dutch capital’s canals were used for transport long before cars and trucks powered by polluting internal combustion engines began clogging its narrow roads.
Christian Masilge ist zufrieden: »Das Fahrzeug tut, was es soll.« Der Leiter der Schiffbau-Versuchsanstalt Potsdam lehnt mit Dreitagebart und weißem Hemd an der Stahlwand des hauseigenen Testkanals. Es riecht nach Schmieröl und Metall. Links und rechts vom Becken verlaufen schmale Gänge mit knarzenden Holzplanken, über der 280-Meter-Rinne thront eine fahrbare Kommandobrücke.
Het instorten van de Grimburgwal in september vorig jaar is deels veroorzaakt door vaarverkeer. Doordat draaiende schepen de bodem omwoelden, werd de gracht dieper dan de kademuren aankonden. Ook zou de kade te lijden hebben gehad onder aanvaringen door boten. Dat blijkt uit onafhankelijk onderzoek door een team van TU Delft, AMS, Deltares en SkyGeo op verzoek van de gemeente.
Wissenschaftler warnen Menschen mit "Social Distancing Dashboard" vor Engstellen. Delft/Amsterdam (pte017/14.05.2020/11:30) - Forscher der Technischen Universität Delft http://tudelft.nl haben mit Kollegen des Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute) http://ams-institute.org das sogannte "Social Distancing Dashboard" entwickelt.
Amsterdam: la città è ormai stata riconosciuta come pioniera della mobilità sull’acqua grazie questo progetto. RoundAround è una vera rivoluzione del settore che fonde sapientemente design e mobilità infrastrutturale, nessuna città fino a questo momento si era mai spinta così oltre. Il progetto è stato curato dall’AMS, Istituto di Amsterdam per le soluzioni metropolitane avanzate in collaborazione con i ricercatori del sensible city lab del MIT, che hanno sviluppato un concept mai visto prima: un ponte dinamico fatto di barche autonome.
Ερευνητές στο MIT σε συνεργασία με το Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute) έχουν ξεκινήσει την ανάπτυξη της πρώτης δυναμικής γέφυρας στον κόσμο κατασκευασμένη πλήρως από αυτόνομες βάρκες – ρομπότ. Σκοπός τους είναι να ενώσουν την περιοχή Marineterrein Amsterdam με την πόλη του Amsterdam, μεταφέροντας με την βοήθεια της τεχνολογίας εκατοντάδες ανθρώπους κάθε ώρα πάνω από το κανάλι.
MIT’s fleet of robotic boats has been updated with new capabilities to “shapeshift,” by autonomously disconnecting and reassembling into a variety of configurations, to form floating structures in Amsterdam’s many canals.
The autonomous boats — rectangula
The Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS) has teamed with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to create roundAround: a fleet of autonomous boats that would run between the island of Kattenburg to the east of Amsterdam and the city centre. The boats would move in a continuous circle across the canal, picking up and dropping off passengers via a charging station.
Amsterdam is a city of bridges, some of them widely experimental. But a new concept from MIT’s Sensible City Lab and the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions trumps them all with roundAround, which imagines the bridge as a series of autonomous boats that shuttle people across waterways.
The roundAround project, developed by researchers at MIT Senseable City Lab, in collaboration with the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions, is basically a bridge made of autonomous boats called Roboats. The least traditional solution, roundAround, but the most versatile and modular answer, connects the waterway between Marineterrein and the City Center in Amsterdam, allowing the transportation of people and goods.
in collaboration with the amsterdam institute for advanced metropolitan solutions (AMS institute), researchers at MIT senseable city lab have developed a dynamic bridge concept made of autonomous boats. dubbed ’roundAround’, the project uses roboat units to connect one of the main waterways in amsterdam, transporting hundreds of people per hour across the water and reducing journey times between the city center and marineterrein from 10 minutes to 2.
In the Amsterdam of the future, you might step out of the Rijksmuseum, the Anne Frank House, or one of the city’s hazy “coffee shops” and hop onto a robot boat to take you to your next destination. Outside the place you’re staying, in the early morning hours, you might hear other robot boats carrying away the trash.
Construire un pont est lourd, coûteux et risqué. Pour relier son nouveau quartier au centre-ville, Amsterdam compte plutôt sur ces navettes autonomes qui permettront de traverser le canal en 2 minutes au lieu de 10. Diviser le trajet par 5. Dans la capitale néerlandaise, le quartier de Marineterrein est en pleine effervescence.