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singleloop systems are used, for example, in crossdock centers. Tandem configurations may be more appropriate for manufacturing environments where workstations are grouped into manufacturing cells. 。 Sinriech, 1995). Moreover, they ignore some areas such as idlevehicle positioning and battery management. This paper attempts to fill this gap, by giving an extended overview of existing literature, including the most recent contributions, and also structures the design and control processes of an AGVS. For each area, we review and classify key decision models. In addition, a new classification for dispatching rules, a guideline for selecting a suitable scheduling system and a decision framework for design and control of an AGVS are proposed. We also consider idlevehicle positioning and battery management problems, which many review papers neglect. Finally, we suggest some fruitful future research directions. . Guidepath design Guidepath design is an important issue in AGVS design and control. It is one of the very first problems to be considered. Most published works on the guidepath design problem assume that facility layout and locations of pickup/delivery (P/D) stations are given and fixed. The main problem is to decide the connections or guidepath segments to be included in the solution. In some cases, the number of parallel lanes of a connection is to be decided as well. This optimization problem also needs the material flows between departments in the facility. This information is used to construct a “from–to” flowchart which is necessary for the guidepath design problem. In a work flow model, vehicle guidepaths are usually represented such that aisle intersections。nemann and Schmidt (2021) and Tompkins et al. (2021) in several respects. Rather than