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Research Supports that Wireless Charging-Enabled Shared Autonomous EVs have the Potential to Increase Utility of the Vehicle Fleet by 50 Percent Compared to Manually-Driven, Plug-in Charged EVs.

Methodology A qualitative analysis focusing on the subsequent impacts of these four emerging technologies on transportation system dynamics and a quantitative…
02/26/2021
Taxonomy: Charging / Fueling Information, Inductive Charging, Driver Assistance, Adaptive Cruise Control, Connected Eco-Driving, In-Vehicle Monitoring, Platooning

Highway Capacity Impact of Connected and Automated Truck Platoon Estimated to Be 34.3 Percent Less than Regular Trucks.

Methodology Researchers used the HCM-6 methodology to assess the differences in equal capacity passenger car equivalent (EC-PCE) associated with Truck Platooning using CAV…
02/23/2021
Taxonomy: Platooning

Modeling effort finds platooning of light duty vehicles can achieve an optimal fuel savings of 4.5 percent.

FINDINGS
  • Platooning of light duty vehicles can achieve an optimal fuel savings of 4.5 percent over baseline.
  • Platooning of buses can achieve an optimal savings of 15.5 percent and…
01/14/2020
Taxonomy: Platooning

Using a combination of surveys and modeling, researchers find that Autonomous Vehicles may increase the number of trips people take and hence traffic congestion.

Findings
  • 57 percent of respondents stated they would likely switch to an Autonomous Vehicles for daily community purposes
  • 71 percent of respondents stated they would use an Autonomous…
11/26/2019
Taxonomy: Adaptive Cruise Control, Vehicle Diagnostics, Navigation / Route Guidance, Platooning

Simulation models estimate connected automated vehicles (CAVs) can reduce net vehicle energy consumption by 11 to 55 percent.

Methods In order to estimate net energy impacts of CAVs researchers at the University of Texas at Austin first conducted a literature review to estimate the energy effects of CAVs. Researchers then…
11/26/2019
Taxonomy: Adaptive Cruise Control, Vehicle Diagnostics, Navigation / Route Guidance, Platooning

The third truck in a Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control system has a fuel savings of up to 11 percent.

FINDINGSWhen the heavy trucks are driven using CACC at the tested time gaps between 0.6 seconds and 1.5 seconds, a three-truck platoon pulling conventional well loaded dry goods van trailers can save…
08/26/2019
Taxonomy: Platooning

Truck fleets could expect fuel savings of up to 10 percent using platooning, as demonstrated on a North Carolina highway.

BackgroundTruck platooning allows trucks in sequence to match speed at a safe following distance. The truck's onboard computer calculates the following distance using the geographic coordinates from…
07/17/2019
Taxonomy: Platooning

Sixty-three (63) percent of city officials surveyed agreed that autonomous vehicles can improve the quality of life in U.S. cities.

According to the study, 58.7 percent of cities agreed that AVs would improve the city in general and 62.6 percent agreed that autonomous vehicles would improve quality of life specifically.…
06/26/2019
Taxonomy: Adaptive Cruise Control, Vehicle Diagnostics, Eco-Routing, Object Detection, Platooning, Fleet Management

Driver Assistive Truck Platooning (DATP) applications can improve peak team fuel savings of two truck platoons by 7 to 10 percent.

FINDINGS
  • Business case analyses concluded that large, for-hire, over-the-road (OTR) truckload (TL) and less-than-truckload (LTL) line-haul fleets and private fleets are best…
06/07/2019
Taxonomy: Platooning

Study finds that 55.7 percent of all classifiable miles driven were platoonable, presenting the opportunity for significant fuel and emissions savings.

Methodology:NREL and Volvo Trucks North America analyzed a two-week period of Volvo Truck telematics data from over 57,000 unique vehicles, traveling over 210 million miles during the summer of 2016…
10/29/2018
Taxonomy: Carrier Operations & Fleet Management, Platooning
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