ABC Logistics

1. Summary

The most important factor in designing a new kind of logistical infrastructure is to design a city and that new logistics at the same time. That's a reason of our designing a new kind of city, called ABC City.

By designing an efficient and full automatic logistical infrastructure at designing a new city, we can significantly reduce the total cost of transportation which is about 20% of Korean GDP. That is, a country's GDP can be doubled just by applying an advanced logistics infrastructure. However, we can't apply such an advanced infrastructures to current cities of a nation.

ABC Logistics is an infrastructure which utilizes quite advanced technologies such as AI, 6G telecommunication, robotics and openhash etc. as well as a few creative inspirations.

All cargoes and parcels may be delivered through tunnels or on the road by autonomous driving cars and other robot vehicles. This page is to detail various facilities and machines for logistics.

• ABC collects all kinds of data on the products paid in ABC currency: the name of products, their sizes, shapes, prices, weights, liquid or solid, perishable etc.

• When a buyer pays, the delivery of the product is automatically set up, and the delivery status is reported to both seller and buyer in real time.

• Warehouses and storages, an important part of the ABC logistics system, is described in ABC Storages.

There are numerous kinds of products, and so are delivery boxes and vehicles.

2. Roads, Tunnels and Sky Ways.

Tunnels are the most efficient way to deliver, but, they are not applicable in some places. Roads are the next efficient one, and the sky ways are the third.

1. Tunnels

The ABC Pilot City will have tunnels in plaid pattern both for delivery and utilities such as electricity, water pipes, and drainpipes

• There may be rails or not on the bottom of the tunnels. Rail is better for providing electricity to vehicles.

• All are autonomous driving vehicles without battery if running on rails.

• Parcels are loaded and unloaded at underground stations.

• Underground stations are directly linked to buildings and houses, or to ground stations where cargoes are loaded onto ground vehicles.

We should design the tunnels, loading systems, vehicles for tunnels and so on.

2. Food Delivery System

As shown at the picture below, three meals a day may be delivered by small boxes running along the rails attached on tunnel ceiling. Meals had better delivered via its own logistic system separated from other parcels.

It's quite good ML exercise as ABC should deliver as many meals as the number of citizens in a ABC city just in 1 minute.

Foods are delivered by specially designed food boxes described below.

3. Logistics Facilities, Logistic Vehicles and Logistics Boxes

For meals, parcels and cargoes are to be delivered from door to door, there should be additional facilities than tunnels and roads.

1. Logistics Facilities(LF)

When logistics vehicles arrive at the basement of a building or a ground station, logistic boxes come out of vehicles, and run themselves to their destinations. Logistic boxes are semi-autonomous driving vehicles designed to drive along tunnels in buildings.

The role of logistics vehicles is to distribute and collect logistics boxes, and LF is where those distribution and collection are done.

2. Logistics Vehicles

There are two kinds of logistics vehicles: one driving through underground tunnels, and the other on roads. The role of logistics vehicles is to move, distribute and collect logistics boxes described below.

Swiss is one of the most advanced nation in this field. The difference between that of Swiss and that of ABC is that, in ABC, the boxes also are logistics vehicles, called logistics boxes.

Logistics vehicles driving on roads are more difficult to design as they need full self driving as described below.

3. Logistics Boxes

They are autonomous driving vehicles with limited functions. Those are normally moved as cargoes of logistics vehicles, and may run themselves after arriving destination buildings. As described below, all buildings including apartments are equipped with tunnels for those logistics boxes.

4. Food Boxes

Foods are delivered by its own mechanism operating separately from other logistics facilities because foods are to be delivered in one minute more or less.

Food boxes drive autonomously along rails similar to those at the ceiling of underground tunnels as shown the picture below. But, different from the Swiss model, the food boxes of ABC are tiny trains with four wheels which can drive along the rails inside walls of buildings.

One more, food boxes can be attached to and detached from the links attached to the rails as shown below.

4. Autonomous Driving

The autonomous driving of most logistics vehicles and boxes are quite easy as they always drive on rails. There is not much to say to achieve self driving of those vehicles and boxes as its done by simple machine learning techniques.

However, some vehicles running on roads are rather complex. In ABC, delivery robots on roads drive only along specially designed lanes separated from ordinary roads.

• They are linux machines with ultra high precision GPS or equivalents.

• Cameras only are sufficient as it follows specially patterned lanes.