Objective: To provide a guide to selecting robotic devices for use in the public transportation environments. The section on environments identifies the expected conditions a device must operate in and navigate through, and develops a prototypical requirements specification. A second section serves as a primer on the features available for robotic devices and provides a market survey of readily available systems that are appropriate for some identified environments. The third section demonstrates how to perform a selection analysis by matching a requirements specification against the market.

Status: Completed. A Revised Final Report was received in December 2002. It was published in May 2003 as TCRP Report 86, Public Transportation Security Volume 3, (3MB PDF) "Robotic Devices, A Guide for the Transit Environment." The report includes prototypical requirement specifications, a primer on the features available for robotic devices, and results of a market survey of available systems appropriate for certain identified environments.