Hand in hand with a 600% traffic increase in the Federal Republic of Germany between 1950 and 1974, itself the result of increased productivity, industrial specialization and the related exodus of industry from the inner cities, went a 70% increase in the productivity of transit organs. As a nation forced to process imported raw materials, Germany often must spend as much on transportation of materials as on production, which means that related processes had to be integrated into an overall 'transfer chain' system with emphasis on basic research concerning new systems, development of technical alternatives for industrial links, development of control methods, study and testing of system components under realistic operating conditions, stressing in particular mass good and piece good transportation and distribution technologies, together with inter-company transfer systems. A description is offered of development lines and projects, including rapid transit, articulated train (chains), hydraulic mass good transfer, automated vehicle use planning for piece goods in Hamburg and Frankfurt, inter-company systems at Bayer AG and in hospitals.


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    Title :

    Bodengebundener Transport und Verkehr - Transportketten (Surface Transit and Traffic - Transfer Chains)


    Publication date :

    1976


    Size :

    25 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English