Platooning
Under platooning (of tight. Platoon for a military train ,) in German as electronic drawbar called, refers to a toy in the development system for the road , in which several vehicles a technical means control system can drive a very short distance behind the other, without affecting road safety.
From 2009 to 2012 the EU project SARTRE (“Safe Road Trains for the Environment”) developed a prototype up to a practical test with three vehicles over about 200 kilometers and 6 meters apart in Spain. 2017 tested Daimler as the first truck manufacturers the technology on public US - Highways .
A general commercial introduction of platooning would have a significant impact on road traffic. On the one hand, it required legal changes, such as those in the StVO in Germany , and, on the other hand, it practically changed the wear and tear on roads, for example.
Targeted benefits are primarily the relief of the driver and a lower fuel consumption at highway -üblichen speeds due to the reduced air resistance in the slipstream . The possibility of driving several vehicles by just one driver in the first vehicle would save freight forwarders not only on fuel but also on personnel costs. Proponents also hope that the highways, in particular, will perform better because there is less danger of congestion. After all, the automated coupling enables even more traffic safety.
On the other hand, feared disadvantages would be system security that is prone to failure. Similar to slow-moving traffic, small deviations in the speed of a vehicle ahead could cause larger deviations in what follows (cf. the Nagel-Schreckenberg model ), which, with their number, builds up to "resonance chaos". Communication disruptions could also be caused by malicious hacking.
literature
- Carl Bergenhem, Henrik Pettersson, Erik Coelingh, Cristofer Englund, Steven Shladover, Sadayuki Tsugawa: Overview of Platooning Systems , ITS World Congress, Vienna, 22-26th October 2012
- Nicolai Krüger, Frank Teuteberg: Truck Platooning: Towards Future Business Models , Lüneburg, 8th March 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Daimler Trucks tests truck platooning on public highways in the USA | marsMediaSite. Retrieved November 8, 2017 (German).
- ↑ Kathrin Elger: Computer, take over! Spiegel Online , October 14, 2014, accessed February 15, 2015 .
- ↑ Soodeh Dadras, Ryan M. Gerdes, Rajnikant Sharma: Vehicular platooning in at Adversarial Environment . In: ASIACCS 2015 - Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security . April 15, 2015, doi : 10.1145 / 2714576.2714619 ( researchgate.net [accessed March 28, 2018]).