Airbus Targets Automated Taxiing Operations With Optimate Project

Truck parked in front of Airbus A350 on runway

For now, a truck is standing in for an Airbus A350 on automated taxi trials.

Credit: Jean-Vincent Reymondon/Airbus
Airbus is hoping to make taxiing safer and more efficient while easing pilots’ workloads with its new automated taxi research project, Optimate. Its Airbus UpNext subsidiary has been working on the three-year Optimate project for more than five months and showed a truck, fitted out with a cockpit...
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