Category: Blog

Automated Valet Parking – this is a buzzword that appears frequently in the media these days. Press releases from companies promise that we will soon be freed from the task of finding a parking space in a garage. In the future, we will simply leave our cars at the entrance and they will be parked automatically. There are many different technologies competing for this future market. Where do we stand in this evolution? In this article, I will try to give an overview of the current state of the technology.

On a recent visit to Nuremberg, Germany, I had the opportunity to ride a driverless train on the Nuremberg subway.
It is the only fully automated subway in Germany. And although the first automated subway line opened in 2008, not all lines are automated today. I asked myself: Why is it that fully automated subways are not more widespread, even though the technology has been around for more than 15 years?

CargoCap is an innovative system that seeks to reduce the amount of delivery truck traffic in our cities. Fully automated capsules travel through a tunnel system connecting major logistical destinations within cities.
In this article I will present this idea and try to give an outlook on its potential advantages and disadvantages.

The Wuppertaler Schwebebahn is a public transportation system in the city of Wuppertal, Germany. It has been connecting the city’s major destinations for more than a hundred years. Because of its ingenious design, it is loved by the people of Wuppertal as well as by visitors from all over the world.
How did such a marvelous piece of engineering develop in an otherwise little-known area of Germany, and not in the big cities of today? In this article, we examine the history of the Wuppertal suspension railway and the unique situation that led to its creation.