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Simulation Study Estimates Energy Use Reduced by 5.7 Percent When 20 Percent of Package Deliveries Are Shifted from Truck to Drone-Based Delivery.

Methodology The research team digitized a map of 13 delivery routes in the Minneapolis metropolitan area taken from the NREL study, characterized the delivery districts, created a comparable set of…
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Date Posted
06/28/2021

State agencies should facilitate the spread and usage of data for commercial vehicle operations, suggests VDOT analysis.

The report concluded with the following recommendations. It also highlighted possible avenues through which the recommendations might be most efficiently implemented. VDOT Traffic Engineering…
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Date Posted
11/26/2019

Use the FRATIS system to enable automated communications between multiple stakeholders and improve logistics in the event of traffic delays or changes to wait times at drayage facilities.

The lessons below were derived from the LA-Gateway FRATIS project: Use the FRATIS system to enable automated communications between multiple stakeholders and improve logistics in the event of…
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Date Posted
10/06/2017

Green Routing System in Buffalo-Niagara Region shows over 16 percent reduction in CO and NOx.

METHODOLOGYThe integrated modeling framework takes the output from TRANSIMS micro-simulator (i.e. the second-by-second vehicle speed trajectories) and feeds that into EPA MOVES model for the purpose…
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Date Posted
09/11/2013

An autonomous vehicle delivery robot can deliver a package for 80 percent less cost than a human.

This article referenced cost data from an autonomous robot delivery operator in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Cost of delivery using a robot: $2.00 to $2.50 per package Cost of delivery using a human: $11…
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04/13/2020