SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING MATERIALS-HANDLING VEHICLE OPERATIONAL COMPLIANCE

Real-time location systems and beacons are used to facilitate operating a materials-handling vehicle in compliance with rules of the road. Materials-handling vehicles may include a processor operably coupled to at least one vehicle system and a receiver communicatively coupled with the processor and configured to receive signals from a real-time location system and from one or more beacons that are located at known positions in an environment in which the vehicle operates. The vehicle is programmed to receive a signal from the real-time location system in response to entering a zone in the environment, communicate with a beacon associated with the zone, determine a position of the vehicle in the zone, and to perform at least one of modifying an operating characteristic of the vehicle system and operating the vehicle system based on the determined position of the vehicle and a rule of the road.