Patent ID: 8527088

Claim:
A transportation system including: a track which is predetermined; a transportation vehicle capable of transporting an article to a first apparatus by traveling along said track; and a controller which controls said transportation vehicle, said transportation system further comprising a second apparatus which is detachable from said first apparatus and onto which said transportation vehicle loads the article, wherein said controller includes a transmission unit configured to transmit, to said transportation vehicle, first data when said second apparatus is mounted on said first apparatus, and second data when said second apparatus is detached from said first apparatus, the first data being data for causing said transportation vehicle to stop at a first stop position at which said transportation vehicle can load the article onto said second apparatus, and the second data being data for causing said transportation vehicle to stop at a second stop position corresponding to said first apparatus, and said transportation vehicle includes: a communication unit configured to receive the first data or the second data; and a stop control unit configured to perform control so as to stop said transportation vehicle at the first stop position when said stop control unit receives the first data, and perform control so as to stop said transportation vehicle at the second stop position when said stop control unit receives the second data.