Autonomous Shuttle System Case Study

At the University of Paderborn, the Railcab project is developing an intelligent railbased transportation system. Its vision is to combine flexible, on-demand scheduling with cost and resource effectiveness, thus offering the advantages of both individual and public transportation. Fleets of intelligent shuttles capable of transporting a small number of passengers or a single freight container autonomously navigate a passive track system and make independent and decentralized operational decisions. At the Dagstuhl Seminar Scenarios: Models, Transformations and Tools, a case study focussing on the logistic aspects of this system was used in an extra design session. As it is consequently referenced by several papers in these proceedings, we provide a short description of the case study in the following sections. After a short overview in Section 2, we describe the architecture of the provided simulator in Section 3 and finally outline the possible interaction scenarios in Section 4. For further information and a detailed interface specification, please consult the case study web site.1