Former SpaceX engineers to reinvent rail with platooning wagons
Visualisation of a Parallel Systems vehicle transporting a container Parallel Systems
Parallel Systems, a company founded by former SpaceX engineers, has raised nearly 47 million euros in funding. With individually powered, autonomous battery-electric rail vehicles, freight can be transported in a flexible way.
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Platooning is an interested concept. I encountered its first application with the ARAMIS PRT developed by MATRA Transport in the 70’s. PRT needed a complex, costly infrastructure. It never went beyond the demonstration stage. For freight transportation, it makes a lot of sense. The management of the modules’ energy levels will require a charging infrastructure with many stations fitted with many parallel, multi- berth lanes to enable the high level of service that platooning can deliver.