Emerging Freight Truck Technologies : Effects on Relative Freight Costs

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• Creators:
  Bao, Ken ; Mundy, Ray A.
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Missouri--St. Louis. Center for Transportation Studies
• Corporate Contributors:
  Midwest Transportation Center ; United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology ; Iowa State University. Institute for Transportation
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Autonomous land vehicles
  • Freight service
  • Operating costs
  • Economic forecasting
  • autonomous vehicle
  • connected vehicle
  • cost impacts
  • platoon
  • rail impact
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  West North Central States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Midwest Transportation Center ; Iowa State University. Institute for Transportation
• Abstract:
  This research sought to evaluate the broad impacts that automated and connected vehicle technologies can have on both the motor carrier and rail industries. Since the development and adoption of these technologies are likely to be gradual, three phases were posited and analyzed. Depending on the degree of autonomy that is available, the motor carrier industry could achieve up to a 42.1% reduction in average cost per mile. And if fully autonomous technology was made available for use in the motor carrier industry, it is estimated that the American rail freight industry could see a 19% to 45% drop in demand.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTRT13-G-UTC37
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/36218/dot_36218_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 875.68 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Autonomous Vehicles ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2b338a339db5cccfe5dbc45fedefb3bc09b25485507da219f0a043b280c1a81ae753c7cbb83f5a480f092f8e89292110d2a8859668cc956fbc3d11a99ea24cbc