Planning of heavy-duty vehicle platoon formulation: basic scheduling problem considering travel time variance

Platooning of heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) on highway has attracted extensive research attention due to its potential benefits on reduced fuel consumption, increased road capacity, enhanced traffic safety and so on. In reality, the departure time of HDV should be planned in advance concerning transport economic efficiency. The introduction of platooning opportunity requires coordination of the time tables or schedules of different HDVs and hence has direct impacts on the final planning decision. However, this problem has been barely explored. This study formulates the basic scheduling problem with platooning as one of the decisional variables, and analyzes optimal decisions for the simple network topologies. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the impacts of relevant parameters on the platooning opportunity such as the travel time variance and preferred arrival time difference. The results give useful insights about the platooning decision.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AT015 Standing Committee on Freight Transportation Planning and Logistics.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Zhang, Wei
  • Ma, Xiaoliang
  • Jenelius, Erik
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2016-1-10 to 2016-1-14
• Date: 2016

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 12p
• Monograph Title: TRB 95th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Heavy duty vehicles; Scheduling; Traffic platooning; Travel time
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01591894
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 16-6899
• Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 29 2016 4:53PM