Denver International Airport

One very public use of automated material handling technologies has occured at Denver International Airport with their baggage handling.

They use technologies including:

• Destination-coded vehicles (DCVs), unmanned carts propelled by linear induction motors mounted to the tracks, can load and unload bags without stopping.
• Automatic scanners scan the labels on the luggage.
• Conveyors equipped with junctions and sorting machines automatically route the bags to the gate.

More about this topic can bee seen at:  http://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/flight/modern/baggage-handling.htm