Truck Platooning and Its Impact on Fuel Emissions

Abstract

Platooning is the use of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) technology to form train-like convoys of vehicles. Truck platooning can potentially contribute to safer roadways through the use of inter-vehicle communication to coordinate traffic movement, while increasing fuel economy through reduced wind drag and reducing vehicular emissions. Fuel economy savings described in the literature on truck platooning are applied toward a forecast of heavy-duty vehicle (HDV) traffic through 2026 to predict a potential reduction of CO2 emissions between 2022 and 2026 of 37.9 million metric tons.