{"id":1533,"date":"2008-03-22T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2008\/03\/22\/steering-the-right-rtg-path\/"},"modified":"2008-03-22T21:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T21:26:00","slug":"steering-the-right-rtg-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/equipment\/steering-the-right-rtg-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Steering the right RTG path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The V-TRAX automatically steers the container handling equipment down a virtual track along the runway using high-precision Differential GPS to locate the equipment and provide both the current position and heading. A twin antenna method allows the system to determine the heading before the equipment starts to move.<\/p>\n<p>The manufacturer claims that the system offers &#8220;minimum invasion into the existing equipment controls&#8221; with &#8220;simple to use interfaces&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It also includes in-built safety devices to avoid collisions and the driver has full override control allowing manual steer at any time.<\/p>\n<p>As a standalone product, V-TRAX can be retrofitted to existing equipment of installed on new and is not tied to any particular crane or control package manufacturer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port automation pioneer InternationalTerminal Solutions has released a passive automated steering rubber-tyredgantry crane system to reduce costs and equipment incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,36],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment","category-products-services"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}