This third volume of TCRP Report 86, "Public Transportation Security," will be of interest to transit general managers, police, and security personnel as well as operations, communications, technology, training, and human resources staffs. Federal, state, and local law enforcement will also find the report useful. The objective of this report is to provide a guide to robotic devices for use in 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. (Author/publisher)
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