Recently, the Netherlands, which holds the rotating EU presidency in 2016, will host the European Truck Queuing Challenge. Several automatic trucks will go to the main EU logistics corridor between Rotterdam, Frankfurt and Vienna. The Dutch side stated that this challenge will make “cohort running” closer to reality and is expected to be realized in Europe by 2020.


The principle of "cohort driving" is based on an advanced adaptive cruise control system. The world’s first study of autonomous driving led by Dr. Robert Fenton of The Ohio State University in 1962. They built the first land vehicle that includes a computer. Until 1997, the United States Department of Transportation funded the National Autonomous Highway System (NAHSC) project to be tested on Highway 15 in San Diego, California. In 2013, the Federal Highway Administration of the United States funded two heavy-duty truck automation projects, with the participation of Peter Bildt and Volvo two trucks.

In Europe, the European Commission also started to study the safety environment of road trains (Sutter project) in September 2009. According to their assumptions, each queue consists of a professional driver driving the first car, followed by each vehicle. Automatically measure distance, speed, and direction. Once in the queue, the driver can do other things, and after leaving the destination, he can leave freely.

The first successful test of the Sartre project took place in January 2011 at the test track in Volvo, Sweden. Then another trial was conducted in Barcelona, ​​Spain, in January 2012. This time, the demonstration demonstrated that the three vehicles proceeded at a speed of 90 km/h, and the gap between each car did not exceed 6 meters.

The adaptive cruise system plays an important role in the truck queuing and it has been proved that when the distance between the vehicles is kept close enough, certain fuel consumption can be saved. With the upgrading of technology, drivers will have more rest time in the future long-distance transportation, and human traffic accidents will also drop significantly. Perhaps in the not-too-distant future, trucks can also be similar to a free-flowing cooperative approach to roughly the same destination.

Road trains are more common in Australia. They are achieved by increasing the number of vehicles. Many vehicles are over 40 meters. In the United States and Europe, they are trying to achieve virtual "connections" between vehicles through a combination of software and hardware to form "cohort driving." So think about it. Is it possible for China to implement this method? Xiao Bian feels that it will not work in a short time, and does not say that the hardware and software are still not up to the requirements. He said that if a small car is added to the road during high speed travel, then this "cohort" is very likely to cause accidents.

Truck queuing can also have problems. For example, drivers who are in the queue will certainly be less concentrated than their own cars. They may be totally dependent on the software and hardware of the truck. In this case, when the car itself is due to software or hardware In the event of an emergency, drivers may not be able to deal with it in a timely manner.

At present, this project is still in the experimental stage, but I believe it will be realized in the near future.

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