| dc.description.abstract | Abstract: Transport is essential because it
allows for contact, trade, and other types of
people-to-people exchange. Transport plays
a crucial role in economic development and
civilization. When it comes to transportation
media mainly, we are using air, water, and
ground. As Sri Lankan people, very
commonly, we are using ground roads to
travel between cities. Most of the time, we
apply waterways only to export and import
between counties. We rarely use waterways
within the country as our transport service.
Now ground roads are too much busy
because the number of vehicles is growing
daily. So, we are introducing this new
technology “Automated Aquatic Taxi (AAT)”
service to use our natural waterways to
transport in Sri Lanka. Our main aim is to
reduce the ground road traffic and save the
time of passengers with a new experience. As
AAT authors are introducing a small or
medium size, an enclosed boat is designed to
automatically ferry passengers between and
around cities. We are planning this to have
also automated the manual control system.
Automate allows “autonomous
identification” and safe navigation around
stationary objects in the water, swimmers,
and any other obstacles. As Sri Lankan, we
have a great history of waterways
experiences. Our ancient people used boats
and small barges to transport. So, this new
step of AAT service will be a good experience
in future aquatic transportation. | en_US |
