Charles Henry Coolidge Sr., the country's oldest Medal of Honor recipient and beloved Chattanoogan died on Tuesday at CHI Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga This document may not be reprinted without the express written permission of Chattanooga Times Free Press Material from the Associated Press is Copyright © 2025 audio and/or video material shall not be published rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium Neither these AP materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and noncommercial use The AP will not be held liable for any delays errors or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing The goal of the project partners Deutsche Bahn Hochschule Fresenius University of Applied Sciences and Götting KG has been set: as part of the ANITA project (Autonomous Innovation in Terminal Operations) fully automated trucks are to move autonomously at the container depot of DB Intermodal Services and the DUSS terminal (Deutsche Umschlaggesellschaft Schiene-Straße mbH) in Ulm Dornstadt by 2023 at the latest The necessary circuit diagram for this has recently been in place This translates the procedures and processes at the terminal universally for all systems involved the vehicle development is now entering the decisive phase “Thanks to the good fundamental work of the Hochschule Fresenius and the creation of the mission planning we can now initiate the next development steps for our ANITA truck This brings us ever closer to our common goal of using the autonomous truck in container handling These project test drives will also provide us as MAN with further knowledge for the development of future autonomous driving in hub-to-hub traffic on defined routes between logistics terminals,” says MAN project manager Amelie Jacquemart-Purson about the milestone that has now been reached Hochschule Fresenius already presented its analysis results in the summer of 2021 Haas had analysed the processes and behaviour of people and machines on site in cooperation with MAN Truck & Bus for a truck to be able to drive fully automatically in the container and DUSS terminals in Ulm in the future it must be able to communicate with the infrastructure Hochschule Fresenius has now transferred these findings into a digital set of rules and programmed various modules based on a common language "For a clear and complete communication chain we used Deon Digital's CSL Contract Specification Language as the common language for this," explains Haas all processes are set up as individual contracts." The result is a complete mission planning system that links both the vehicle and the two very different IT systems of the container and DUSS terminals the solution speaks the languages of all heterogeneous systems and guides the automated truck through the container handling process can now be used by the project partners MAN Truck & Bus and Götting in the development of the autonomous vehicle The first test drives with the prototype truck are expected to take place in Ulm Dornstadt at the end of 2022 other DB AG container terminals in Germany will also be digitalised and automated - along a roadmap leading to the future Terminal 4.0  "Automated transfer of loading units between our transshipment terminal and the container depot will enable combined transport to be handled even more efficiently and sustainably," explains Thomas Wünsch "The container depot of DB Intermodal Services also benefits from the innovation project By integrating the autonomous truck into the real terminal processes we are gaining valuable experience for our operations," adds Jens Pröse News and interesting facts about the ANITA project are now available on the new “www.anita.digital” website. In addition to a comprehensive project description and contact details, the latest press releases as well as the project film and an explanatory video on ANITA are available there. Links also lead directly to the homepages of the individual project partners for even more background information: https://www.anita.digital/en/ is a 5.9km railway tunnel under construction on the new Wendlingen-Ulm line in Germany the Albabstieg tunnel is a 5.9km railway tunnel under construction on the new Wendlingen-Ulm line in Germany The tunnel will lead the Swabian Jura to the tracks at Ulm Central Station It is expected to be completed at an estimated cost of €250m ($334m) German railway company Deutsche Bahn is the developer of the project The tunnel is expected to be put into operation by 2021 The Federal Railway Authority issued building permit for the tunnel replacement in July 2012 The Albabstieg railway tunnel will have two single-track bores which will be connected with one another by 11 cross-passages with a gap of 500m each It has two portals – the north portal located in Dornstadt and the south portal located in Ulm The elevation change of the tunnel will be roughly 95m and the tubes of the tunnel will lie 40m apart The tunnel is designed for a speed of 250km/h and will have maximum longitudinal gradient of 2.5% It will reach a height of 750m above sea level Construction on the Albabstieg tunnel began in early-2014 The official christening ceremony was held in June 2014 at the northern tunnel portal in Dornstadt The tunnelling works on both north and south portals began simultaneously Both the bores of the tunnel will be driven uphill to the north and downhill to the south toward Ulm Approximately 3.3km of tunnel was dug out by March 2015 while 5km was dug through a combination of excavators and blasting method by April 2016 Major breakthrough at the south portal in Ulm is expected to take place in April 2017 The tunnelling works will include removing approximately 1.4 million cubic metres of soil and rock material Sprayed concrete technique was used during the construction It involves loosening the rock through blasting and immediately applying the surface with sprayed concrete and reinforcement steel followed by waterproofing with plastic membranes and insertion of a load-bearing tunnel lining of in-situ concrete The equipment used for the tunnelling works includes PANTEX 3 bar Lattice Girders and shotcrete will be excavated using an 11m diameter full-circle tunnel heading with fast ring closure The difficult part of tunnel construction lies at the Jura geology section which is located in brown Jura with low rock stability and in Oxfordian and compact limestone formations The thickness of the rock pillar between the two tunnel tubes ranges between 5m and 30m Züblin and its partner Max Bögl was awarded a €250m contract to build the 5.9km railway tunnel in August 2013 EPLASS was awarded a contract to provide project management and collaboration for the new tunnel through the workflow-based EPLASS platform in September 2013 The consortium led by PORR was awarded a contract to build the Albabstieg tunnel on the new-build section from Stuttgart to Ulm (S21) DSI was contracted to supply several high-quality products and systems for stabilising the tunnel advancement The products supplied by DSI are used for rock support which include DYWI® Drill Hollow Bar Anchors and Self-Drilling Spiles PANTEX Lattice Girders and OMEGA-BOLT® Rock Bolts ILF Consulting Engineers (ILF) was awarded the contract to provide design for the Albabstieg tunnel as part of the Wendlingen-Ulm line iC was awarded with a contract to provide the final design for the NATM primary lining and TBM segmental lining and intersections for Albabstieg section Give your business an edge with our leading industry insights View all newsletters from across the GlobalData Media network and Götting KG draw a positive mid-term balance in the joint automation project ANITA (Autonomous Innovation in Terminal Operations) With the first public drive of the autonomous truck driving system on the MAN test track in Munich the partners presented what has been achieved so far and announced intensive practical and development drives at the container depot of DB Intermodal Services and the DUSS terminal (Deutsche Umschlaggesellschaft Schiene-Straße mbH) in Ulm Dornstadt as the next step The aim of ANITA is to use autonomous trucks to stabilize the processes involved in transferring containers from road to rail easier to plan and at the same time more flexible This will enable more goods to be transported in environmentally friendly combined transport in the future MAN will be sharpening the electronic senses of the autonomous truck in the real operating environment over the coming months so that it can perceive the surroundings "The basic automation technology for ANITA is ready we are now going into direct comparison with practice in order to further develop the system with a view to operational reliability and added value for the future user." said Dr Executive Board Member for Research and Development at MAN Truck & Bus "We are consistently pursuing this approach in order to be able to offer autonomous trucks in terminal traffic as series technology from the end of the decade Götting KG and the Hochschule Fresenius University of Applied Sciences are essential in this." The partners plan a full year of test drives to confront the autonomous prototype with reality as often as possible during the step-by-step development and optimization process A safety driver is always on board to intervene if necessary The intensive test drives benefit not only the further development of the autonomous truck but also the preparation of the terminals for the integration of the new technology: "Rail and road combined - that's the environmentally friendly solution for the logistics of the future We are working together here to make these intermodal transports grow.  Digitization and automation help us to make the interfaces to the freight train the processes in the terminals simple and fast," says Dr Member of the Management Board of Deutsche Bahn AG responsible for Freight Transport and Chief Executive Officer of DB Cargo AG For the autonomous truck to be able to perform its transport task in container handling it must be able to communicate with the infrastructure of the DBIS depot and DUSS terminal the scientists at Fresenius University of Applied Sciences analyzed the existing processes procedures and behaviors of people and machines on site in the first phase of the project and transferred them to a digital set of rules Deon Digital's Contract Specification Language (CSL) serves as a common language for the clear and complete communication of all systems involved The result is a complete mission planning system that links both the vehicle and the IT systems of DBIS Depot and DUSS Terminal "We are pleased to see how our preliminary work can be successfully used in interaction with the truck in the further course of the ANITA project," emphasizes Prof Haas from Fresenius University of Applied Sciences the scientists' mission planning transmits its orders to the automated truck and accompanies it through the container handling process "During the practical tests in the terminal we will learn more every day," says MAN project manager Amelie Jacquemart-Purson "It requires high engineering skills - to merge the camera interpret them and implement them correctly." Specifically this means a lot of software development: During test drives These findings will then be implemented step by step via software updates The autonomous system must be able to cover all the decisions that a driver makes today on the basis of his sensory impressions - this means nothing less than replacing human perceptions and actions The "Autonomous Innovation in Terminal Operations" (ANITA) project started on July 1, 2020 with the aim of automating handling between modes of transport and thus making it more flexible and efficient. It is being funded with €5.5 million from the "New Vehicle and System Technologies" program of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection. The duration is 39 months. More about the ANITA project: https://www.anita.digital/en/