Control of Heavy-Duty Trucks: Environmental and Fuel Economy Considerations
This report examines the effect that heavy-duty trucks equipped with different Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) systems have on the environment and traffic flow. The sluggish dynamics that manual or adaptive cruise control trucks exhibit because of their limited acceleration capabilities, ultimately help to filter speed disturbances caused by leading vehicles, thus leading to beneficial effects on the environment and traffic flow. This response may, however, lead to higher travel times in certain situations as well as invite cut-ins from neighboring lanes causing additional disturbances. This study presents a new ACC design that is shown to reduce some of the negative effects of trucks in mixed traffic.
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Corporate Authors:
University of California, Berkeley
California PATH Program, Institute of Transportation Studies
Richmond Field Station, 1357 South 46th Street
Richmond, CA United States 94804-4648University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA United States 94720-1720California Department of Transportation
1120 N Street
Sacramento, CA United States 95814University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies
Los Angeles, CA United States 90089 -
Authors:
- Zhang, Jianlong
- Ioannou, Petros
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0000-0001-6981-0704
- Publication Date: 2004-5
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 91p
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Serial:
- PATH Research Report
- Publisher: University of California, Berkeley
- ISSN: 1055-1425
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Adaptive control; Automatic headway control; Cruise control; Environmental impacts; Heavy duty vehicles; Pollutants; Traffic flow; Trucks
- Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Motor Carriers; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01050262
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
- Report/Paper Numbers: UCB-ITS-PRR-2004-15
- Contract Numbers: TO 4203
- Files: BTRIS, TRIS, ATRI, STATEDOT
- Created Date: May 3 2007 6:03PM