Toyota Motor Corp. has unveiled an operations management system that enables multiple autonomous vehicles to run on the same road network simultaneously.
Toyota's e-Palette autonomous electric vehicle will be used in the athletes' village for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics next summer.
Four e-Palettes carried passengers on a course at a Tokyo facility during a recent demonstration of the new operations management system, which constantly monitors the speed and location of the vehicles. The e-Palettes were shown avoiding collisions and stopping at precise locations.
Designed to shorten the waiting time of users and ease congestion, the system manages the operation of the vehicles to ensure that they can get to where they need to be when they need to be there.
The system will be used in Toyota's Woven City initiative, a "smart city" the company plans to begin constructing in Shizuoka Prefecture in February. Toyota said it aims to commercialize the system in the first half of the 2020s.
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