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Electronically Controlled Braking Systems (ECBS) Intelligent Vehicle Initiative Field Operational Test: Combined Templates 2 and 3: Mixed and Optimized Tractor-Trailer
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2007-01-31
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Alternative Title:Electronically-Controlled Braking Systems (ECBS) Intelligent Vehicle Initiative Field Operational Test (FOT);Electronically Controlled Braking Systems (ECBS) Intelligent Vehicle Initiative Field Operational Test: Combined Templates Two and Three: Mixed and Optimized Tractor-Trailer;
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Edition:Final report
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Abstract:As one part of its thrust to reduce large truck-related fatalities, the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) is working closely with the trucking industry to promote voluntary deployment of advanced safety technologies that can reduce fatal crashes of commercial motor vehicles (CMVs). Several heavy commercial vehicle research programs sponsored by the DOT have been focused on testing and evaluating the effectiveness of intelligent vehicle technologies to reduce rear-end collisions, lane departures, rollovers, understeer and oversteer (yaw) instabilities, and lane change/merge crashes. In 2003, the DOT contracted with a team led by Freightliner LLC to undertake the Field Operational Test of Electronically Controlled Braking Systems (ECBS) to collect field data needed to demonstrate the benefits of onboard electronic safety systems in a real-world operating environment. The overall goal of the DOT related to the ECBS Field Operational Test (FOT) was to develop and demonstrate an improved understanding of ECBS and its enabled technologies in terms of performance, reliability, durability, maintainability, and safety benefits in a real-world operating environment. The DOT structured the program around "templates," each designed to examine different aspects of the performance of ECBS and its enabled technologies. The Freightliner Team was selected to conduct the Template 2 and Template 3 FOT with the specific objectives to design, implement, and conduct the FOT to collect data needed by the IE and to demonstrate to truck fleets that these systems are reliable and can improve productivity.
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