METHOD OF RUNNING TRANSPORT VEHICLES INSIDE PIPELINES Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC G08G1/967 

FIELD: transport.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to trackless transport and can be used to run passenger and freight vehicles inside pipelines. Proposed method comprises control over vehicles by onboard computers and transmission, via radio communication lines, of signals from server computer. It differs from known methods in that route marks with individual codes are applied onto inner walls of pipeline to be read off into vehicle onboard computers. Each transport vehicle is assigned initial and final marks with codes corresponding to embossing point and destination point. Server computer tracks out network topology to select the route with minimum number of marks. Onboard computers control relative location of transport vehicles and passing cross points along the vehicle routes.

EFFECT: trackless passenger and freight vehicles passage inside pipelines.

2 cl, 7 dwg