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Airport signs self-drive tech contract
The Gazette
|August 15, 2025
AUTONOMOUS BUS NOW SET FOR TRIAL
TEESSIDE Airport has signed a £1m deal to host a driverless baggage and passenger transport system. The new autonomous system has been rubber-stamped to start a pilot this autumn.
Tees Valley Combined Authority has agreed a contract with aviation firm Aurrigo International plc.
It will mean passengers and bags being ferried around Teesside Airport by cutting-edge autonomous vehicles from early next year.
The company’s eight-seater auto-shuttle passenger vehicle is primed to begin trial activities in October, while an auto-dollytug - a driverless way of moving cargo and bags around airports - is set for operation in January. Teesside will be the only airport in the world where both autonomous cargo and passenger vehicles will be operating.
This story is from the August 15, 2025 edition of The Gazette.
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