Use of electronically linked Konvoi truck platoons on motorways

Deutschle, Stefan; Keßler, Günter C.; Lank, Christian; Hoffmann, Guido; Hakenberg, Mathias; Brummer, Markus

doi:10.1007/bf03225258

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“…Previous European research projects have included CHAUFFEUR which developed an "electronic tow-bar" for close following between trucks [4], the German KONVOI project, [5], HAVEit [6] and SARTRE (2009-2012) [7]. There are similar initiatives in the US [8] and in Japan [9].…”

Section: Vehicle Platoonsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Semi-automated heavy vehicle platoons on UK motorways

Stevens¹,

McCarthy²,

Gilhead³

2014

Road Transport Information and Control Conference 2014 (RTIC 2014)

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This paper describes the concept and the technology involved in vehicle platooning on roads carrying mixed traffic. Platooning heavy vehicles together with short headways offers potential fuel savings and is expected to be of interest to the logistics industry if benefits can be realised in realworld conditions. It is argued that a suitably designed trial would help to characterise the operational benefits and the paper explores the feasibility of such platooning trials on UK roads through a range of trial scenarios. In planning a trial, a number of key safety, legal and organisational issues need to be addressed and these are outlined. The paper also lists the parameters which should be collected as part of any trial. It is concluded that the technology is sufficiently ready that trials can be undertaken on live roads given suitable preparations and safeguards.

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Section: Vehicle Platoonsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Semi-automated heavy vehicle platoons on UK motorways

Stevens¹,

McCarthy²,

Gilhead³

2014

Road Transport Information and Control Conference 2014 (RTIC 2014)

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“…Therefore, the spacing in an AHVP could be kept smaller than the normal safe spacing. After referencing the spacing data from other experiments [37–40], the spacing in this paper is pre‐set to 20 m. Assume that

d{S}_{i,j}

represents the spacing between vehicle

i

and vehicle

j

in the Frenet coordinate system. The pre‐set spacing in an AHVP with four vehicles is defined as

d{S}_{1,2}

d{S}_{2,3}

, and

d{S}_{3,4}

.…”

Section: Controller Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Research of obstacle vehicles avoidance for automated heavy vehicle platoon by switching the formation

Kuang,

Tan,

Guo

et al. 2024

IET Intelligent Trans Sys

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With the development of automated vehicles, researches related to automated vehicle platoon (AVP) have received more and more attention. AVP is considered one of the effective means to alleviate traffic congestion and reduce vehicle energy consumption. This paper studies a three‐layer method of avoiding obstacle vehicles in traffic by switching the formation for the automated heavy vehicle platoon. In the decision‐making layer, a decision‐making system based on the finite‐state machine is established for formation switching. In the second layer, the lane‐changing trajectory is optimized based on the quantic polynomial curve fitting for vehicles that need to change lanes. In terms of vehicle control layer, each vehicle has a longitudinal controller based on sliding mode control and a lateral controller based on model predictive control to track the planned trajectory to complete the target formation. Finally, the proposed method is simulated in MATLAB/TruckSim. The simulation results show that the proposed method could effectively avoid the obstacle vehicles by switching the formation and has a small average value of errors in speed tracking and trajectory tracking.

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“…The earliest initiatives to test truck platooning began in the early 1990's with a proof-of-concept program from the United States Department of Transportation's Automated Highway System (Ferlis, 2007) and the 1996 European CHAUFFER project (Crolla, 2015). Europe extended their efforts into the 2000's by funding the SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) project in Sweden and Spain (Robinson, Chan, & Coelingh, 2010), and the Konvoi project in Germany (Deutschle, et al, 2010). Those initial efforts used a mix of simulations and experiments to quantify the potential reduction in petroleum consumption.…”

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confidence: 99%

Policy implications of truck platooning and electrification

2020

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Trucks in North America account for more than 23% of the transportation sector's greenhouse gas emissions. Truck platooning and truck electrification are potential technologies for reducing emissions and operating cost. However, adoption uncertainties result in speculations about their potential impact. Traditional modeling techniques to inform policymaking use large datasets, trained professionals to calibrate complex software, and take hours to run a single scenario. This paper provides a closed-form model that rapidly calculates trends of the potential national petroleum consumption reduction for a range of technology adoption scenarios. The primary finding is that truck electrification would have a substantially larger impact on fuel consumption reduction than platooning. The limitations of platoonable miles create an upper bound in benefits. When calibrated for the base year fuel-efficiency, the model shows that petroleum consumption reduction would be less than 4% at full adoption of platooning. The electrification of single unit trucks results in more than a 13-fold reduction of national petroleum consumption relative to platooning. However, without the electrification of combination unit trucks, petroleum consumption will eventually begin to increase again. Therefore, policies to encourage the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions should not overlook incentives to electrify combination unit trucks.

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Use of electronically linked Konvoi truck platoons on motorways

Cited by 14 publications

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Semi-automated heavy vehicle platoons on UK motorways

Semi-automated heavy vehicle platoons on UK motorways

Research of obstacle vehicles avoidance for automated heavy vehicle platoon by switching the formation

Policy implications of truck platooning and electrification

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