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  • Ingleside may be test site for new freight transport system

    11/12/2007 3:31:55 PM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 31 replies · 156+ views
    Corpus Christi Caller-Times ^ | November 11, 2007 | Fanny S. Chirinos
    INGLESIDE — A new way to move shipping containers might be tested in Ingleside as early as next year. Stephen Roop, designer and assistant director of the Texas Transportation Institute, a research and development agency working with the Texas A&M University System, has developed a freight shuttle that would move a container from point A to point B on rails. The process would be automated and computerized, with the owner of the shuttle programming where the shuttle needs to take the container. The concept is to alleviate congestion on highways and ship cargo more efficiently, Roop said. It was developed...