Heavy Vehicle Management: Restriction Strategies

Profiling heavy vehicle speeding

Truck or heavy vehicle crashes feature regularly in print, online and television media. When a heavy vehicle is involved in a serious crash, particularly one involving loss of human life, this often triggers public debate about the road conditions at the location of the crash, the factors that may have contributed to the crash and how the government is addressing the issue. Recently, there have...

Study of Emissions Benefits of Commercial Vehicle Lane Management Strategies

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2341, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2013, pp. 43–52. DOI: 10.3141/2341-05 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland State University, P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207-0751. Corresponding author: A. Y. Bigazzi, [email protected]. total emissions. Given t...

Heavy Vehicle Driver Workload Assessment, Executive Summary

Driveline torque observer for heavy duty vehicle

In addition to fuel consumption and efficiency the expectations in driving comfort of heavy duty vehicles were substantially increased in the last years. The driveline has an essential role in drivability performance of the vehicle. Since it determines the driving efficiency as well, simple, but robust devices were quite widespread in production, but these can usually make driving more difficul...

Heavy-Duty Vehicle Platooning – Modeling and Analysis

Coupled with the growth of world economy, the demand of freight transport has escalated and will continue to do so. As the traffic intensity increases, the pressure on infrastructure, energy usage and environment becomes higher than ever. Meanwhile, the number of traffic accidents is also increasing year by year as a result. Heavy-duty vehicle (HDV) platooning makes a group of HDVs driving clos...