Heavy-Duty Vehicle Platooning for Sustainable Freight Transportation: A Cooperative Method to Enhance Safety and Efficiency

Alam, Assad; Besselink, Bart; Turri, Valerio; Mårtensson, Jonas; Johansson, Karl Henrik

doi:10.1109/mcs.2015.2471046

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“…In future applications, platooning fuel savings can be enhanced by addressing barriers to closer platoon formation -such as reduced engine cooling -and by including more vehicles in each platoon [19]. Alam et al suggested that a large-scale cooperative method to enhance safety and efficiency of truck platoons by increasing the level of cooperation between vehicles be used to maximize platooning benefits [20]. Additional benefits of truck platooning, such as road capacity optimization and accidents reduction, as well as additional truck safety and operational considerations have also been explored in previous studies ( [21], [22], [23]).…”

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Potentials for Platooning in U.S. Highway Freight Transport

Muratori¹,

Holden²,

Lammert³

et al. 2017

SAE Int. J. Commer. Veh.

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Smart technologies enabling connection among vehicles and between vehicles and infrastructure as well as vehicle automation to assist human operators are receiving significant attention as a means for improving road transportation systems by reducing fuel consumption-and related emissions-while also providing additional benefits through improving overall traffic safety and efficiency. For truck applications, which are currently responsible for nearly three-quarters of the total U.S. freight energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, platooning has been identified as an early feature for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) that could provide significant fuel savings and improved traffic safety and efficiency without radical design or technology changes compared to existing vehicles. A statistical analysis was performed based on a large collection of real-world U.S. truck usage data to estimate the fraction of total miles that are technically suitable for platooning. In particular, our analysis focuses on estimating "platoonable" mileage based on overall highway vehicle use and prolonged high-velocity traveling, and established that about 65% of the total miles driven by combination trucks from this data sample could be driven in platoon formation, leading to a 4% reduction in total truck fuel consumption. This technical potential for "platoonable" miles in the United States provides an upper bound for scenario analysis considering fleet willingness and convenience to platoon as an estimate of overall benefits of early adoption of connected and automated vehicle technologies. A benefit analysis is proposed to assess the overall potential for energy savings and emissions mitigation by widespread implementation of highway platooning for trucks.

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Section: State-of-the-art For Trucks Energy Savings In Platooning Opementioning

confidence: 99%

Potentials for Platooning in U.S. Highway Freight Transport

Muratori¹,

Holden²,

Lammert³

et al. 2017

SAE Int. J. Commer. Veh.

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“…Platooning could be generally defined as two or more vehicles arranging themselves in a specific pattern to travel together. This leads to several benefits, including improved safety for the drivers as well as an improved overall efficiency of the vehicles involved . The increase in efficiency is largely due to a reduction in aerodynamic drag experienced by the participating vehicles (including the lead vehicle) .…”

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Evaluating the Potential of Platooning in Lowering the Required Performance Metrics of Li-Ion Batteries to Enable Practical Electric Semi-Trucks

2017

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“…While there are multiple types of horizontal curves, this section focuses on circular horizontal curves that have a curve length that is higher than the SSD to show the impact of AVs on the required lateral clearance distance or on the sightline. In this case, the horizontal sightline offset (HSO) can be calculated using the formula shown in Equation (3).…”

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“…Over the last few years, autonomous vehicles (AVs) have gained significant attention from both research and industry because of the rapid innovations in artificial intelligence technology in addition to the capabilities of the new sensing technology [1][2][3]. In general, there are five levels of automation functionality, according to the National Highway and Transportation Safety Administration.…”

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Impact of Autonomous Vehicles on the Physical Infrastructure: Changes and Challenges

Othman

2021

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Over the last few years, autonomous vehicles (AVs) have witnessed tremendous worldwide interest. Although AVs have been extensively studied in the literature regarding their benefits, implications, and public acceptance, research on the physical infrastructure requirements for autonomous vehicles is still in the infancy stage. For the road infrastructure, AVs can be very promising; however, AVs might introduce new risks and challenges. This paper investigates the impact of AVs on the physical infrastructure with the objective of revealing the infrastructure changes and challenges in the era of AVs. In AVs, the human factor, which is the major factor that influences the geometric design, will not be a concern anymore so the geometric design requirements can be relaxed. On the other hand, the decrease in the wheel wander, because of the lane-keeping system, and the increase in the lane capacity, because of the elimination of the human factor, will bring an accelerated rutting potential and will quickly deteriorate the pavement condition. Additionally, the existing structural design methods for bridges are not safe to support autonomous truck platoons. For parking lots, AVs have the potential to significantly increase the capacity of parking lots using the blocking strategy. However, the implementation of this parking strategy faces multiple issues such as the inconsistent marking system. Finally, AVs will need new infrastructure facilities such as safe harbor areas.

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Heavy-Duty Vehicle Platooning for Sustainable Freight Transportation: A Cooperative Method to Enhance Safety and Efficiency

Cited by 294 publications

References 17 publications

Potentials for Platooning in U.S. Highway Freight Transport

Potentials for Platooning in U.S. Highway Freight Transport

Evaluating the Potential of Platooning in Lowering the Required Performance Metrics of Li-Ion Batteries to Enable Practical Electric Semi-Trucks

Impact of Autonomous Vehicles on the Physical Infrastructure: Changes and Challenges

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