Electronically coupled truck platoons on German highways

Author

Ramakers ; Henning, Klaus ; Gies, Stefan ; Abel, Dirk ; Max, H.

Author_Institution

Manage. & Dept. of Inf. Manage. in Mech. Eng., RWTH Aachen Univ., Aachen, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

11-14 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

2409

Lastpage

2414

Abstract

In this paper, a brief introduction of automated truck platoons on motorways is given. It includes a description, of the scenario Â¿platoons organized by the driverÂ¿, the system architecture of the platoon system and a description of the software architecture for a driver information system. The results of the accomplished system and acceptance tests of the platoon system in the truck driving simulator are summarized in this paper. Furthermore it contains an overview about the trial implementations on test tracks and on German motorways.

Keywords

driver information systems; road vehicles; software architecture; German highway; automated truck platoon; driver information system; electronically coupled truck platoon; motorway; software architecture; truck driving simulator; Cybernetics; Fuels; Humans; Information management; Information systems; Knowledge management; Mechanical engineering; Road transportation; System testing; USA Councils; Acceptance Tests; Advanced Driver Assistance Systems; Driver Information System; System Tests; Truck Platoons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2009. SMC 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Antonio, TX

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2793-2

Electronic_ISBN

1062-922X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2009.5346393

Filename

5346393