United States Department of Transportation
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Truck Platooning Early Deployment – Independent Evaluation: Requirements for Performance Measures
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2019-09-01
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Abstract:The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) recognizes that cooperative automated driving systems will have a transformative impact on how the nation’s highways will operate in the future. One of the proposed near-term services is truck platooning. Truck platooning promises fuel savings to platooning trucks by enabling them to follow each other more closely, while still in a safe manner. In the future, the commercial trucking industry is planning to deploy vehicle-to-vehicle based truck platooning systems. System-wide impacts and the impact on truck drivers, fleet owners, and light duty vehicle drivers still need to be assessed for operational and safety impacts. To this end, the USDOT selected three teams (Battelle, California PATH, and CDM Smith) to participate in “Truck Platooning Early Deployment Assessment, Phase 1” project. The objective of Phase 1 is to develop a concept and proposal for deploying and assessing a commercial truck platoon system. Field test deployment and assessment will occur in Phase 2. Noblis has been tasked by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) as the Phase 1 Independent Evaluator (IE) to provide evaluation-related technical support to the three teams as they develop their Phase 1 deliverables. The purpose of this report is to present requirements for performance measures that were developed for 8 key areas by the IE with inputs from FHWA, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), and the Department of Energy (DOE). The report includes: Requirements for performance measures to guide the development of performance measures and evaluation plans by Phase 1 Awardees, and eventually the evaluation of Phase 2 field test(s); and Levels of priority associated with each of the developed requirements based on the objectives of this project.
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