Patent ID: 7069612

Claim:
A method of connecting one end of a passenger bridge or mobile goods-handling device to a door on a craft to be parked comprising the steps of: determining an actual position of the craft when said craft has been parked, and inputting information related to the position of the parked craft into a computer system, wherein the step of determining the actual position of the parked craft comprises measuring a distance from a first reference point to at least a second reference point on the craft; determining an actual position of the door of the parked craft on the basis of information, which has been previously stored in the computer system, about a relative position of the door of the craft with respect to the second reference point on the craft; and automatically guiding the passenger bridge or the goods-handling device to the determined actual position of the door a position of the end of the passenger bridge or the goods-handling device being determined during the guiding and inputted into the computer system.