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Impact of Autonomous Freight Delivery on Trucking Operations

项目名称：	Impact of Autonomous Freight Delivery on Trucking Operations
摘要：	Connected truck operations bring exciting opportunities on energy savings by forming platoons. While truck platooning is beneficial on corridor analyses, real-life implementation of platooning depends on many factors such as additional investment needed for connected infrastructure, addressing first- and last-mile delivery issues, adverse weather and traffic conditions, and pavement durability capable of sustaining increased truck traffic. To quantify the impact of these uncertainties, a virtual case analysis is crucial. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to develop a case study and compare the operation costs and benefits of connected freight to traditional trucking for actual origin-destination pairs in Illinois’ Road network that span from a populated area in Chicago to a rural part in central Illinois. The state of Illinois has a road network that is suitable for platoons. An insight regarding the impact of platoon compared to normal truck traffic will be investigated. As a result of the case study, recommendations will be outlined for efficient platoon operation. The following four tasks are identified: (1) Determine the feasibility and efficiency of using drones for first- and last-mile delivery compared to land operation. An efficient algorithm for planning drone routes to pick up and deliver freight to/from trucks and ground-based depots will be developed. (2) Develop real-time optimization to identify optimum platooning scheme based on uncertainties such as traffic level, weather, and number of platoon trucks. (3) Quantify pavement damage caused by regular truck traffic and truck platoons at multiple penetration levels. (4) Determine the costs and benefits of using additional infrastructure equipment necessary for platooning such as connected devices or embedded passive sensing material for controlling lateral positions of connected trucks.
状态：	Active
资金：	464120
资助组织：	Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology；U.S. Department of Transportation
管理组织：	Center for Connected and Automated Transportation
项目负责人：	Tucker-Thomas, Dawn<==>Bezzina, Debra
执行机构：	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
主要研究人员：	Al-Qadi, Imad L
开始时间：	20220401
预计完成日期：	20230331
主题领域：	Freight Transportation；Highways；Motor Carriers；Operations and Traffic Management；Pavements；Safety and Human Factors；Vehicles and Equipment