Organization and Operation of Electronically Coupled Truck Platoons on German Motorways

Kunze, Ralph; Ramakers, Richard; Henning, Klaus; Jeschke, Sabina

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-10817-4_13

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“…Moreover at short following distances, the aerodynamic drag coefficient is smaller resulting in significant energy savings, in particular for heavy duty vehicles. Recognized research programs in the USA (Browand et al, 2004;Bishop et al, 2017), Europe (Kunze et al, 2011;Alam et al, 2010;Alam, 2014), and Japan (Tsugawa, 2014) have demonstrated the feasibility of the technology in well documented road experiments as discussed in (Tsugawa et al, 2016) showing potential for 5-15% energy saving. Experimental results in (Alam et al, 2010;Alam, 2014) show between 4 to 7 percent energy saving potential for a heavy truck.…”

Section: Cooperative Car Followingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy saving potentials of connected and automated vehicles

Vahidi

Sciarretta

2018

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

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Connected and automated vehicles (CAV) are marketed for their increased safety, driving comfort, and time saving potential. With much easier access to information, increased processing power, and precision control, they also offer unprecedented opportunities for energy efficient driving. This paper is an attempt to highlight the energy saving potential of connected and automated vehicles based on first principles of motion, optimal control theory, and a review of the vast but scattered eco-driving literature. We explain that connectivity to other vehicles and infrastructure allows better anticipation of upcoming events, such as hills, curves, slow traffic, state of traffic signals, and movement of neighboring vehicles. Automation allows vehicles to adjust their motion more precisely in anticipation of upcoming events, and save energy. Opportunities for cooperative driving could further increase energy efficiency of a group of vehicles by allowing them to move in a coordinated manner. Energy efficient motion of connected and automated vehicles could have a harmonizing effect on mixed traffic, leading to additional energy savings for neighboring vehicles.

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Section: Cooperative Car Followingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy saving potentials of connected and automated vehicles

Vahidi

Sciarretta

2018

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

416

126

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“…Different approaches have proven the feasibility of platooning, e.g., PATH [14], SARTRE [9], KONVOI [15], or COMPANION [16]. In the COMPANION project, heuristics for calculating the optimal route for platoons are used [16].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…PATH offers a concept for an automated highway [14]. In [15], the authors present a central system for coordinating platoons using data mining algorithms. The approach is comparable to the PCS, however, the PCS integrates individual factors for matching platoons rather than similar routes only.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

RoCoSys: A framework for coordination of mobile IoT devices

Krupitzer

Breitbach

Saal

et al. 2017

2017 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)

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Mobile IoT devices enable new classes of systems, such as cyber-physical systems. These systems pose challenges as they should seamlessly interact with users and other systems. In this paper, we address the problem of interaction between mobile pervasive IoT devices. Our contributions are threefold. First, we present a concept for a framework for coordination of mobile IoT devices. Second, we implement a reusable robot platform using the Mindstorms toolkit and a customizable adaptation logic for their coordination based on our framework. Third, we show its usability with two applications: an intelligent vehicle highway system as well as a smart vacuum cleaner.

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“…Until now, the vehicle platooning technique is mainly investigated in Europe and is referred to as truck platooning. For instance, it is studied through various projects such as KONVOI, SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment), and ENSEMBLE [ 5 , 6 , 7 ]. It is noted that their truck platooning techniques are proposed for a particular type of road because it is expected that the effectiveness of the vehicle platooning increases on a highway with a simple topology.…”

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Distributed Urban Platooning towards High Flexibility, Adaptability, and Stability

Jeong

Baek

Son

2021

Sensors

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Vehicle platooning reduces the safety distance between vehicles and the travel time of vehicles so that it leads to an increase in road capacity and to saving fuel consumption. In Europe, many projects for vehicle platooning are being actively developed, but mostly focus on truck platooning on the highway with a simpler topology than that of the urban road. When an existing vehicle platoon is applied to urban roads, many challenges are more complicated to address than highways. They include complex topology, various routes, traffic signals, intersections, frequent lane change, and communication interference depending on a higher vehicle density. To address these challenges, we propose a distributed urban platooning protocol (DUPP) that enables high mobility and maximizes flexibility for driving vehicles to conduct urban platooning in a decentralized manner. DUPP has simple procedures to perform platooning maneuvers and does not require explicit conforming for the completion of platooning maneuvers. Since DUPP mainly operates on a service channel, it does not cause negative side effects on the exchange of basic safety messages on a control channel. Moreover, DUPP does not generate any data propagation delay due to contention-based channel access since it guarantees sequential data transmission opportunities for urban platooning vehicles. Finally, to address a problem of the broadcast storm while vehicles notify detected road events, DUPP performs forwarder selection using an analytic hierarchy process. The performance of the proposed DUPP is compared with that of ENSEMBLE which is the latest European platooning project in terms of the travel time of vehicles, the lifetime of an urban platoon, the success ratio of a designed maneuver, the external cost and the periodicity of the urban platooning-related transmissions, the adaptability of an urban platoon, and the forwarder selection ratio for each vehicle. The results of the performance evaluation demonstrate that the proposed DUPP is well suited to dynamic urban environments by maintaining a vehicle platoon as stable as possible after DUPP flexibly and quickly forms a vehicle platoon without the support of a centralized node.

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Organization and Operation of Electronically Coupled Truck Platoons on German Motorways

Cited by 40 publications

References 1 publication

Energy saving potentials of connected and automated vehicles

Energy saving potentials of connected and automated vehicles

RoCoSys: A framework for coordination of mobile IoT devices

Distributed Urban Platooning towards High Flexibility, Adaptability, and Stability

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