Fully Automated Transport System for Local Intelligent Movement - FATSLIM

Abstract

The aim of this project was to develop a transport system which ensures a smoother, safer and faster journey by road, thereby ensuring a better travel experience than encountered currently.This project was designed around the concept of transferring of control of the vehicle from humans to computers, which puts a check on the human factor involved in accidents. Also since the computers already know the way around the city, by virtue of the map of the city fed into them, the time taken to find out routes will also get cut down. As everything is controlled by computers, the person currently known as the driver shall have little to do as the vehicle moves towards the destination, ensuring a less exhausting journey. Since the controls of all the vehicles in one region lie in the hands of the same computer, therefore traffic in a region shall be coordinated with traffic coming from, and going to, other regions, also in case of road blockages, maintenance work or other sorts of diversions, the computer shall just guide the vehicle through a different route, all in all ensuring the time spent at traffic lights, traffic jams or any other delays shall be reduced.The idea of an automated transport system has been thought of before, but the advantages of this design over the predecessors are numerous. Although this is at a very basic stage and would need considerable developments before being in a position to actually be implemented, it is more efficient.