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Truck Platooning Early Deployment Assessment– Independent Evaluation: Performance Measures for Evaluating Truck Platooning Field Deployments
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2020-08-10
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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 communications-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 the “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. As part of Phase 1, the Independent Evaluator (IE) developed requirements for performance measures based on which each of the three Phase 1 teams developed performance measures to evaluate their Phase 2 field test deployments. The purpose of this report is to summarize the key performance measures proposed for Phase 2 field operational test as well as performance measures from other truck platooning efforts around the world. This will guide transportation agencies on selecting appropriate performance measures for evaluating future truck platooning deployments. The report also includes: • Discussions of experimental designs for truck platooning field deployments; and • Contextual applications of performance measures for evaluating truck platooning field deployments.
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