Cut-ins in Truck Platoons: Modeling Loss of Fuel Savings
2021 (English)In: Towards Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Highways, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2021, p. 11-26Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Reducing fuel consumption is one of the major benefits of platooning. While introducing platooning in mixed traffic, surrounding traffic will interfere with the platoon, risking a loss in fuel savings. In this work, a method for estimating potential fuel loss due to cut-ins in platoons is presented. Based on interviews with truck drivers with experience from platooning, and naturalistic data from previous research, we estimate the potential loss of fuel savings due to cut-ins and compare two scenarios with different amounts of traffic. The results show that platoons spend as much as 20% of time in cut-ins on typical European roads, reducing fuel savings in platooning from 13% down to 10%. Consequently, avoiding cut-ins has a positive environmental effect worth considering.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2021. p. 11-26
Keywords [en]
Fuel economy, Truck drivers, Trucks, Amounts of traffics, Fuel savings, Mixed traffic, Potential loss, Truck platoons, Fuels
National Category
Control Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-54704DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-66042-0_2Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85108413163OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-54704DiVA, id: diva2:1575943
Conference
EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing
Note
Export Date: 29 June 2021; Book Chapter; Correspondence Address: Englund, C.; Center for Applied Intelligent Systems Research (CAISR), Sweden; email: cristofer.englund@ri.se; Funding text 1: This project was funded by Strategic Innovation Program Drive Sweden.
2021-06-302021-06-302025-09-23Bibliographically approved