Transport facility

Abstract

In a transport facility, a control system performs traffic control in permitting a transport vehicle at a target stop-point among stop-points or at a point upstream from the target stop-point to travel through a merging area. The control includes causing an occupancy point to enter an occupied state in which the occupancy point is occupied by a permitted transport vehicle, prohibiting, during the occupancy point being in the occupied state, transport vehicles other than the permitted transport vehicle from traveling at least from the target stop-point to the occupancy point, and canceling the occupied state after the permitted transport vehicle passes the occupancy point. During the control, the control system permits, when transport vehicles traveling to the merging area include same-path transport vehicles having a same combination of the occupancy point and a stop-point to travel through, the same-path transport vehicles to sequentially travel through the merging area.

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