United States Department of Transportation
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Truck Platooning Early Deployment Assessment – Independent Evaluation: Expanded Analysis Plan
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2022-07-17
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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 was to develop a concept and proposal for deploying and assessing a commercial truck platoon system. In Phase 2, California PATH has been selected to conduct the actual field operational testing and assessment of truck platoons. This is subject to a successful Operational Readiness Test and subsequent USDOT decision to proceed with the field operational test (FOT).
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