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Commercial trucking is an industry ripe for connected and automated vehicles. The operations of the trucks combined with the highly analytical nature of the customers makes for the possibility of very rapid adoption. By combining partial automation with vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-cloud communication, these fleets can see massive fuels savings and safety improvements in the near term.
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Calculated based on data from [2]. Average fuel cost per mile for truck-tractor was $0.64 in 2013; long haul tractors can drive 125–150 k miles per year and large fleets typically have over 10,000 tractors.
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Switkes, J.P., Boyd, S. (2016). Connected Truck Automation. In: Meyer, G., Beiker, S. (eds) Road Vehicle Automation 3. Lecture Notes in Mobility. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40503-2_15
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