Platooning: just the beginning of automated road freight transport?
Mini-Symposium Transforming Freight Movement through ITS RDW/RWS 09-10-2015
Platooning: just the beginning of automated road freight transport? • • • • •
Current knowledge about platooning First lessons learned from platooning in the Netherlands Outlook: Truck Platoon Challenge 2016 Platooning as a trigger Further research
Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment 2
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Current knowledge about platooning • •
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Platooning: < 1s in between, CACC Pros: – Savings (fuel 5-15%. CO2 10-20%) – Safer through communication – No, or less driving time second driver Cons: – Public opinion “wall of trucks” – Little or no cooperation between competing companies – Cybersecurity issues
Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment 3
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First lessons learned from platooning in the Netherlands • • •
Driver was first back up: 1,3s in between as a requirement Positive: other traffic could cross the platoon Admittance procedure: – Direct contact between all parties involved positive – Happy flow and stresstesting worked – Behavior and road safety must be better integrated
Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment 4
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Truck Platoon Challenge 2016
Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment 5
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Platooning as a trigger I • •
What if you could match the right vehicles for the right roads (under the condition of route control)? And a platoon can be one of those right vehicles, but only for certain roads? (so a platoon is not a goal, but a mean)
Focus on load units!
Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment 6
Platooning trucks
Platooning as a trigger II •
Possible outcome: – More possibilities for the further standardization of load units – Give opportunity for technological innovation – Give opportunity for new logistics concepts
Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment 7
Platooning trucks
Back to the current situation All depends on a good business case: • Fuel and different drivertask • Garanteed time of arrival • Free flow (time slots, traffic management from traffic control centers)
Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment 8
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Loes Aarts
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Gerben Feddes
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Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment 9
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