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Sustainable truck platooning operations in maritime shipping: A data-driven approach
Cleaner Logistics and Supply ChainIn liner shipping, stakeholders are increasingly committed to adopting autonomous and environmentally friendly transportation solutions, especially for truck operations managing container transfers.
Zhaojing Yang, Min Xu, Xuecheng Tian
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Truck Platoon Slipstream Effects Assessment
, 2022 Abstract With the increase of stringent emission standards and higher road transportation cycles in the last few decades, the importance of transport and fuel efficiency plays a major role. The aerodynamic forces on trucks have a huge impact of the overall fuel consumption rate.
Alexander Kospach, Christoph Irrenfried
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What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1554, Issue 1, Page 66-86, December 2025.This essay examines how psychosocial forces shape will to fight through the Devoted Actor Framework (DAF). Devoted actors, bound by sacred, non‐negotiable ideals and fused group identities, pursue a quest for ontological significance that sustains conflict beyond material incentives.
Scott Atran
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Towards Truck Platooning Deployment Requirements
, 2022 AbstractTruck platooning represents a promising means to enhance efficiency of freight transport. Developments of truck platooning date back to the early 1990s, starting with projects to illustrate the technical feasibility followed by projects investigating the potential of fuel savings up to feasible business models and multi-brand and multi-fleet ...
Matthias Neubauer, Wolfgang Schildorfer
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Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, Volume 40, Issue 25, Page 4273-4295, 20 October 2025.Abstract Accurately assessing weaving area capacity is critical for optimizing traffic management. However, transportation agencies face a persistent challenge: Existing capacity models often inadequately characterize vehicle weaving behaviors and fail to quantify the interactions between influencing factors.
Jian Rong +4 more
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Truck Platooning on Flexible Pavements in Illinois
, 2021 Truck platoons have many benefits over traditional truck mobility. Truck platoons have the potential to improve safety and reduce fuel consumption between 5% and 15%, based on platoon configuration. In Illinois, trucks carry more than 50% of freight tonnage and constitute 25% of the traffic on interstates.
Imad Al-Qadi +4 more
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Risk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 16, Issue 3, September 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores the sociohistorical construction of civilian unpreparedness as a public policy issue in Los Angeles, arguing that it emerged not as a neutral response to escalating urban risks, but as a mechanism through which actors negotiated power dynamics amid urban transformations between 1940 and 1980.
Piero Tellerías Melgarejo
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The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 851-860, September 2025.ABSTRACT Desertion from the military does not turn soldiers into civilians. In this paper, I analyse military identity and embodied practices of soldiers who deserted from the Zimbabwe National Army and were exiled in South Africa. Soldiering is understood as an essence part of who they are, as men who risked their lives and invested in a career, which
Godfrey Maringira
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Planning and Control Strategies for Truck Platooning: A Benefit-Driven Literature Review
Future TransportationTruck platooning refers to a group of heavy-duty vehicles travelling in close succession through cooperative driving technologies and inter-vehicle communication. This transport solution is increasingly investigated as a promising strategy to enhance the
Erika Olivari +5 more
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