AN AUTOMATED HIGHWAY SYSTEM DEDICATED TO INTER-CITY TRUCKING : OPERATING CONCEPTS AND DEPLOYMENT

This paper focuses on the automation of inter-city trucking for the purpose of increasing trucking productivity, of which vehicle throughput is only one of many factors. In the AHS literature, various operating concepts have been developed for an "ultimate AHS", but little attention has been paid to the critical issue of how to realize such ultimate systems through a planned sequence of deployment steps. The authors recently proposed operating concepts for an AHS dedicated to inter-city trucking and this paper focuses on their deployment. We identify the needs of the industry of long-haul trucking and develop operating concepts and deployment strategies to satisfy the needs. In addition, we identify key stakeholders and consider explicitly their major concerns or desires

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Publication Date: 2002. Transportation Research Board, Washington DC. Remarks: Paper 02-2857 prepared for presentation at the 81st annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C. January 2002. Format: CD ROM
• Corporate Authors:

  Jamiat al-Imarat al-Arabiyah al-Muttahidah

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  University of California, Berkeley

  California PATH Program, Institute of Transportation Studies
  Richmond Field Station, 1357 South 46th Street
  Richmond, CA  United States  94804-4648

  University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

  Department of Civil Engineering, 500 Pillsbury Drive, SE
  Minneapolis, MN  United States  55455

  University of California, Irvine

  Institute of Transportation Studies
  4000 Anteater Instruction and Research Building
  Irvine, CA  United States  92697

  Purdue University

  Joint Transportation Research Program
  West Lafayette, IN  United States  47907-2051

  Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

  1005 North Glebe Road
  Arlington, VA  United States  22201

  Texas Transportation Institute

  Texas A&M University System, 3135 TAMU
  College Station, TX  United States  77843-3135

  CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY

  CHICAGO, IL  United States 

  University of Utah, Salt Lake City

  Utah Traffic Laboratory, 122 S Central Campus Drive
  Salt Lake City, UT  United States  84112

  University of Toronto

  Intelligent Transportation Systems Center
  Toronto, Ontario  Canada 

  University of Hawaii, Manoa

  Department of Civil Engineering, 2540 Dole Street, Holmes Hall 383
  Honolulu, HI  United States  96822
• Authors:
  • Tsao, H S Jacob
  • Botha, Jan L
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 81st Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington D.C.
  • Date: 2002-1-13 to 2002-1-17
• Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 17 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated highways; Deployment; Trucking
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Freight Transportation; Motor Carriers;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00920307
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: PATH
• Created Date: Mar 1 2002 12:00AM