ATRI Seeks Input on Truck Platooning
The American Transportation Research Institute is seeking input from truck drivers and motor carriers on truck platooning.
Driver-assisted truck platooning is based on a system that controls intervehicle spacing based on information from forward-looking radars and direct vehicle-to-vehicle communications.
Braking and operational data are constantly exchanged between trucks, enabling the control system to automatically adjust engines and brakes in real time, allowing trucks to travel closer together than manual operations would safely allow.
ATRI launched the data collection effort with two research teams sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Based on industry input, ATRI will conduct an empirical cost/benefit analysis to determine the degree to which platooning could be adopted in the trucking industry.
The survey is available at ATRI’s website, www.atri-online-org, and open through Dec. 8.
