Platooning for sustainable freight transportation: an adoptable practice in the near future?

S Sivanandham, MS Gajanand - Transport Reviews, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Platooning is an emerging transportation practice that has the potential to solve the
problems of the burgeoning transportation industry. A platoon is a group of vehicles, with …

Impacts of truck platooning on the multimodal freight transport market: An exploratory assessment on a case study in Italy

V Marzano, F Tinessa, C Fiori, D Tocchi… - … Research Part A: Policy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Truck platooning is expected to significantly affect road freight transport performances,
although in the long term due to technological and operational issues still to address …

[HTML][HTML] Charging needs for electric semi-trailer trucks

B Borlaug, M Moniot, A Birky, M Alexander… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Battery-electric vehicles provide a pathway to decarbonize heavy-duty trucking, but the
market for heavy-duty battery-electric semi-trailer trucks is nascent, and specific charging …

[HTML][HTML] A framework to analyze the requirements of a multiport megawatt-level charging station for heavy-duty electric vehicles

P Mishra, E Miller, S Santhanagopalan, K Bennion… - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Widespread adoption of heavy-duty (HD) electric vehicles (EVs) will soon necessitate the
use of megawatt (MW)-scale charging stations to charge high-capacity HD EV battery packs …

Investigating the potential of truck platooning for energy savings: empirical study of the US national highway freight network

X Sun, H Wu, M Abdolmaleki, Y Yin… - Transportation …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Truck platooning enabled by connected automated vehicle (CAV) technology has been
demonstrated to effectively reduce fuel consumption for trucks in a platoon. However, given …

Co-optimization of charging scheduling and platooning for long-haul electric freight vehicles

MR Alam, Z Guo - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2023 - Elsevier
Freight mileages have been significantly increasing over the past decade, accounting for
11% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Freight electrification and platooning are …

A micro-economic model of the market uptake of truck platooning

F Combes - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Truck platooning is a technology allowing trucks to travel in convoy formation using wireless
communications and advanced driver assistance systems. This technology is expected to …

Policy implications of truck platooning and electrification

R Bridgelall, DA Patterson, DD Tolliver - Energy Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Trucks in North America account for more than 23% of the transportation sector's
greenhouse gas emissions. Truck platooning and truck electrification are potential …

Smart mobility. connected and automated vehicles capstone report

E Rask, J Auld, B Bush, Y Chen, V Freyermuth… - 2020 - osti.gov
The US Department of Energy's Systems and Modeling for Accelerated Research in
Transportation (SMART) Mobility Consortium is a multiyear, multi-laboratory collaborative …

Optimization of vehicle dynamics for enhanced class 8 truck platooning

BT Black - 2020 - search.proquest.com
The heavy duty transportation sector is projected to grow in the coming decades. Increasing
the fuel economy of class 8 vehicles would simultaneously decrease CO 2 emissions and …