TECHNO NEWS * The Netherlands - Virtual train of trucks
Hilversum,Netherlands -Radio Netherlands, by Thijs Westerbeek -2 Apr 2007: --In the long run, building ever more roads will not solve the problem of traffic congestion.Most drivers have seen it happen; a new stretch of road is opened and in the short-term traffic flow improves.Sadly, a couple of weeks or months later it's as bad as it was before - it seems that more tarmac generates more traffic...Bearing this in mind,scientists at the Delft University of Technologyare attempting to make better use of the existing road infrastructure through the development of a system of automatically controlled trucks...(Picture - All aboard: automatically controlled trucks in action would resemble a train with no links)
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