Article transport facility

An article transport facility that transports an article using a transport vehicle that travels along a travel path, comprising:

• a fire detection device that detects occurrence of a fire;
• a fire protection door that can move from an open position at which the transport vehicle can travel along the travel path to a closed position at which the travel path is blocked, when occurrence of a fire has been detected;
• and
• a control portion that controls the transport vehicle,
• wherein the control portion includes:
• a subject-vehicle position information acquisition portion that acquires subject-vehicle position information which is information regarding a position of a subject vehicle on the travel path, the subject vehicle being a transport vehicle to be controlled;
• an interference area storage portion that stores, as an interference area, an area in which the transport vehicle is located in a state in which a portion of the transport vehicle overlaps a door trajectory which is a movement trajectory of the fire protection door, on the travel path;
• and
• an another-vehicle information acquisition portion that acquires another-vehicle information which is a traveling state of another vehicle, the another vehicle being a transport vehicle that is different from the subject vehicle and that travels along the travel path,
• wherein the control portion prohibits the whole subject vehicle from entering the interference area if it is determined, based on the another-vehicle information and information regarding the interference area, that the interference area is present between the another vehicle located forward of the subject vehicle and the subject vehicle, and that a stoppable area corresponding to a length of the transport vehicle along the travel path is not secured between a rear end position of the another vehicle and the fire protection door, and
• wherein, in a case where the control portion is unable to stop the subject vehicle in front of the interference area, the control portion stops the subject vehicle such that a portion of the interference area which portion is in front of the fire protection door overlaps a portion of the subject vehicle.