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Platooning for sustainable freight transportation: an adoptable practice in the near future?

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  • S. Sivanandham
  • M. S. Gajanand

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Platooning is an emerging transportation practice that has the potential to solve the problems of the burgeoning transportation industry. A platoon is a group of vehicles, with vehicle to vehicle communication, that travel closely behind one another such that the platoon can accelerate, brake and cruise together. Platoons can improve road safety, be energy efficient and reduce costs. Its complete socio-economic benefits include congestion mitigation, smoother traffic flow, better lane usage and throughput, incentives for green logistics and driver safety. The long-term effect of platooning on road transportation, if extensively deployed, would be better organised traffic flow and efficient tracking of vehicles on the road ushering a multilevel positive impact on the industry. In this study, we attempt to answer the critical question of whether platooning is an adoptable practice in the near future and discuss an agenda to take platooning closer to implementation on the ground by highlighting the opportunities for future research. We also present a conceptual framework to help researchers, academicians, policy makers and practitioners for the adoption of platooning into the transportation industry.

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  • S. Sivanandham & M. S. Gajanand, 2020. "Platooning for sustainable freight transportation: an adoptable practice in the near future?," Transport Reviews, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(5), pages 581-606, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:transr:v:40:y:2020:i:5:p:581-606
    DOI: 10.1080/01441647.2020.1747568
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    1. Xu Zhang & Eoin Plant & Nikolaos Valantasis Kanellos, 2022. "An Evaluation of Ireland’s Sustainable Freight Transport Policy," Logistics, MDPI, vol. 6(3), pages 1-23, September.
    2. Yujin Jeong & Hyejin Jang & Byungun Yoon, 2021. "Developing a risk-adaptive technology roadmap using a Bayesian network and topic modeling under deep uncertainty," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 126(5), pages 3697-3722, May.
    3. Yan, Xiaoyuan & Xu, Min & Xie, Chi, 2023. "Local container drayage problem with improved truck platooning operations," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 169(C).
    4. Bouchery, Yann & Hezarkhani, Behzad & Stauffer, Gautier, 2022. "Coalition formation and cost sharing for truck platooning," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 165(C), pages 15-34.
    5. Duggal, Angel Swastik & Singh, Rajesh & Gehlot, Anita & Gupta, Lovi Raj & Akram, Sheik Vaseem & Prakash, Chander & Singh, Sunpreet & Kumar, Raman, 2021. "Infrastructure, mobility and safety 4.0: Modernization in road transportation," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 67(C).
    6. Anna Pernestål & Albin Engholm & Marie Bemler & Gyözö Gidofalvi, 2020. "How Will Digitalization Change Road Freight Transport? Scenarios Tested in Sweden," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(1), pages 1-18, December.

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