Truck platooning is a recent solution proposed to optimise road transportation. Platooning can help improve transport efficiency and safety, reduce traffic congestion, fuel consumption greenhouse gases emissions. Considering that truck platoon configurations are new, studying their impact on pavement response damage crucial. In this context, study presents the results obtained in full-scale exp...

Truck platooning has been identified as an emerging and promising operational technology with the advantages of fuel consumption savings carbon emissions reductions. We formulate truck routing optimization problem a multi-commodity network flow from transportation scheduling perspective. Based on generated through reduction aerodynamic drag by formation platooning, route each is also set to be ...

Research on freight transportation has seen a tremendous increase in the last decades, yet it lags behind that on passenger travel, particularly at a macro-level suitable for nation-wide policy analysis. A key challenge in freight demand modeling is the availability of data on key drivers of demand such as cost, time, and trip length which usually is proprietary and expensive. Moreover freight ...

The transporting sugarcane from cane fields to a mill factory is a potential cost in sugarcane logistics. The poorly operating vehicle (six-wheel truck) services and transportation lot size results in lost or excess of cane supplied. In this paper, we consider the integrated districting problem of whole cane field region and transportation lot size of each cane field. We formulate the combining...

Discussions of alternative fuel and propulsion technologies for transportation often overlook the infrastructure required to make these options practical and cost-effective. We estimate ethanol production facility locations and use a linear optimization model to consider the economic costs of distributing various ethanol fuel blends to all metropolitan areas in the United States. Fuel options i...

Since railway transport possesses the advantage of high volume and low carbon emissions, diverting some freight from road to railway will help reduce the negative environmental impacts associated with transport. This paper develops a flow assignment model for quantitative analysis of diverting truck freight to railway. First, a general network which considers road transportation, railway transp...

PURPOSE Rear-end crashes attribute to a large portion of total crashes in China, which lead to many casualties and property damage, especially when involving commercial vehicles. This paper aims to investigate the critical factors for occupant injury severity in the specific rear-end crash type involving trucks as the front vehicle (FV). METHODS This paper investigated crashes occurred from 2...

Truck crashes on steep downgrades due to excessive brake heating, resulting from applications control speeding, are a continuing cause of concern for the Wyoming Department Transportation (WYDOT). In 2016, WYDOT funded project update existing Grade Severity Rating System. Furthermore, in 2020, commissioned research automate updated version mathematical model through an interactive, intuitive, a...