INNOVATION
Autonomous trucking A trial with an autonomous driving terminal truck recently took place at the Lineage Logistics (formerly known as Kloosterboer) terminal in the Vlissingen port area. This trial is part of the Living Lab project ‘Autonomous Transport Zeeland’. The Living Lab project Autonomous Transport Zeeland develops an open innovation system in which logistics companies, technology providers for autonomous vehicles, road authorities, and knowledge institutes together innovate and experiment with autonomous vehicles with mixed traffic in real-life logistic operations and on public roads.
Zeeland Connect The Living Lab project is part of one of Zeeland Connect’s innovation programmes. Zeeland Connect is a triple helix network initiative that aims at supporting Zeeland’s logistics industry in the broadest sense of the word. PortNews talks with Ronald Wielemaker and Kymo Engelman to learn more about the project. Mr Wielemaker is Managing Director of Transporten Containerbedrijf Wielemaker, and Chairman of Zeeland Connect. Mr Engelman is Project Manager Logistics and Energy at Impuls Zeeland, and as core team member at Zeeland Connect he is involved in the Autonomous Transport Zeeland project. Before taking a closer look at Autonomous Transport Zeeland, Mr Wielemaker first explains about Zeeland Connect
Ronald Wielemaker is Managing Director of Transport- en Containerbedrijf Wielemaker, and Chairman of Zeeland Connect.
All photos courtesy of Zeeland Connect.
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