The most accessible route
Getting around with a shopping cart, a baby stroller or in a wheelchair is not an easy task. When these people calculate the route to go to a place, the usual navigation applications do not inform them if the sidewalks are lowered or if a street is very steep.
There are Robots to transport people in pedestrian areas such as shopping malls, hospitals or airports. In addition, they propose that it could serve to regulate the flow of people or cars. For example, if a green or red light is incorporated, it would be like a much more advanced traffic light. Researchers have recently incorporated a new, improved collision avoidance algorithm that more skillfully evades traffic and reduces time to destination.
Automatic payment tolls
On many highways it is still necessary to stop at a toll station to pay on the spot for the use of the road, which creates uncomfortable traffic bottlenecks. Therefore, more and more places are implementing automatic toll systems that provide greater fluidity to traffic.
Most of these systems use a reader installed on the road that sends a radio signal to a transponder in the vehicle, identifying it and charging the payment by the previously established method. In some cases, such as in central London, cameras are used to read license plate numbers. The user must have previously registered in the system to make the payment. In some European countries, automatic toll systems have already been implemented based on the satellite navigation devices of the cars themselves, which are responsible for recording the user's journey and producing the demand for payment. The advantage of this option is that it not only allows toll stations to be eliminated, but also avoids the installation of expensive camera and sensor infrastructure on the roads.
Air carriers
In a world that is increasingly connected and hooked on online commerce, parcel delivery has acquired such proportions that it requires an immense continuous movement of vehicles. In the future there will be flying drones for orders.