Our paper on “ITS Applications for Higher Productivity of Road Freight Transport” was presented by Dr Tom Vöge at the HVTT15 symposium in Rotterdam last week.
Abstract: Recent years have shown ever increasing road freight volumes and it is forecast that the increase is likely to continue. At the same time investment in the road infrastructure is declining, which puts more stress on existing infrastructure that will have to handle the increasing road traffic volumes. This paper investigates how increasing the productivity of the road freight vehicles could be a part of the solution. And how the use of ITS technologies, including vehicle tracking, route planning and geo-fencing, could ensure political acceptability of these vehicles and minimise costly infrastructure upgrades. Some of the approaches that could be used to proceed with increasing weights and dimensions of road freight vehicles to improve their productivity are outlined.
You can download the paper here, and access the other papers from the symposium here.