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Illinois Study Revealed Line-Haul Delivery Costs Can Drop by 26 Percent with Fully Automated Truck Platooning.

METHODOLOGY The study used the pre-trained surrogate model to determine the optimal platooning configuration to minimize fuel consumption under different wind scenarios. The performances of four…
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Date Posted
01/26/2024

Field Study on Adaptive Cruise Control Found That Nearly 80 Percent of Drivers Were Consistently Comfortable with the Gap It Provided Across Speeds, with a Minor Drop in Comfort Around 45 MPH.

METHODOLOGY In this study, the survey participants drove an experimental course that included nine test speeds ranging from 25 to 65 mph, once using ACC and once while driving manually. For each of…
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Date Posted
09/29/2023

Meta-Study Reviewing 67 Simulation or Field-Based Studies from Literature Reported an Average Capacity Increase of 59 Percent Due to Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control.

METHODOLOGY In this study, the systematic review was conducted based on the following selection criteria: i) either ACC or CACC technologies or both, ii) both simulations and field tests, iii)…
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Date Posted
08/30/2023

Educate Drivers on Automated Truck Platooning Systems and Signage to Increase Travel Speed and Throughput.

Influence the behavior of drivers interacting with automated truck platoons and facilitate efficient throughput by teaching drivers about platoons. In all cases for the educated…
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Date Posted
05/28/2022

Driver Simulator Study Showed 12.9 Percent Increase in Vehicle Speeds and 30.1 Percent Decrease in Headway Distances for A Two-truck Platoon After Automated Truck Platooning Training.

METHODOLOGY For the driver simulator tests, participants were asked to start in the right lane while approaching a work zone involving a right lane closure. As the subject-driven vehicle…
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Date Posted
05/28/2022

Florida Study Suggests Identifying Structures that Should Be Geo-Fenced As Restricted Platooning Zones When Implementing Driver Assistive Truck Platooning.

Include capacity change considerations with higher truck platooning penetration when evaluating the benefits of DATP. During the planning phase, DATP’s applicability for urban and rural road…
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Date Posted
04/27/2022

Model-Based Study Estimates Truck Travel Time Costs in Illinois Could Decrease by Up to 25 Percent with an Optimized Network of Dedicated Automated Truck Platooning Lanes.

Methodology The interstate freeway network used in this study consisted of a total of 35 nodes and 56 demand origin-destination (O-D) pairs. Traffic data were obtained from the Illinois Roadway…
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Date Posted
03/29/2022

Microsimulation of Eco-Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control Systems Applied To Hybrid Electric Vehicles Reveal Up To 10.6 Percent Reduction In Energy Consumption.

METHODOLOGY In this study, in addition to the HEV energy model, a vehicle dynamics model was used to capture the relationship between speed, acceleration level and tractive and/or resistance forces…
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Date Posted
03/25/2022

Analysis of Safety-Critical Events Occurring With Active Automated Driving Systems Reveals Either a Benefit, or No Negative Impact From the System, in 87 Percent of Cases.

Methodology The research team investigated an existing naturalistic driving database collected from the Virginia Connected Corridor Level 2 Naturalistic Driving Study with data from 50 drivers using…
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Date Posted
03/07/2022