When is it fuel eficient for a heavy duty vehicle to catch up with a platoon?

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 7, Issue PART 1, 2013, Pages 738-743

  Liang, Kuo Yun ^a   Martensson, Jonas ^b   Johansson, Karl Henrik ^b  

^a SCANIA CV AB   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUEL ECONOMY; ROADS AND STREETS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AND JOINS; FALSE POSITIVE; FUEL SAVINGS; HEAVY DUTY VEHICLES; RESEARCH FIELDS; SLIPSTREAM EFFECTS; VEHICLE ACCELERATION; VEHICLE INDUSTRY;

FUELS;

EID: 84885921403     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20130904-4-JP-2042.00071     Document Type: Conference Paper

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