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Germano Pecoraro
1mo
I've written on your LinkedIn page before: It's not about replacing long freight trains (20-35 cars in Europe and 100-120 in the US) with self-driving modules of 3-4 cars. Your solution is ideal for: 1 - shunting freight trains, without shunting locomotives; 2 - They are ideal for secondary lines of a few kilometers (called Short Lines in the US) but still connected to the main lines with long freight trains; 3 - Point-to-point services, for example within a large industrial area, such as a steel plant, a mine, a sawmill, etc.; 4 - In an emergency (in Italy it's called "requesting a reserve emergency locomotive"), if the main locomotive breaks down, push the entire train at low speed to the nearest station. 5 - Your project is a kind of Local Motors-Olli on rails. Sorry, but your excellent work (and you're only doing this research in the US) lacks transportation analysis, and I don't know what the American equivalents for "civil engineering with a focus on transportation" are in Italy.
Automotive Professional
1moPlatooning... I am wondering the efficiency increase with battery locomotives with those self propelled wagons... Abdullah Jaber, nice is not it? Yiğit Belin, MBA, PMP, Levent Durusoy is not it ideal for country like Turkiye with high gradeability instead of using CoCo locomotives maybe BoBos may work.