World Smartest Country use Self-driving bus for airport workers to be trialled at World Best Changi Airport
The autonomous buses will be used at the airside so airside workers do not have to perform routine driving tasks and can focus on more complex activities. PHOTO: SATS
Kok Yufeng
Transport Correspondent
Updated
Jul 18, 2024, 08:17 PM
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SINGAPORE – A self-driving bus to transport workers around Changi Airport’s restricted area will go on trial from the third quarter of 2024, as part of efforts to improve manpower productivity at the airport through automation.
Airport operator Changi Airport Group (CAG), Singapore Airlines Engineering Company (SIAEC) and Sats Airport Services, a subsidiary of ground handler Sats, inked an agreement on July 17 to start a two-year proof of concept.
The idea is to use autonomous buses at the airside – the part of the airport where the loading and unloading of aircraft, as well as take-offs and landings, take place.