Controlling greenhouse gas emissions is becoming increasingly more important. With road freight contributing to a significant amount of energy usage, finding ways to improve this sector will, in turn, lead to large reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, with one method to achieve this being to use larger vehicles. Currently, prescriptive legislation dictates the dimensions a vehicle can take. An alternative to this is to use ‘Performance-Based Standards (PBS)’. This involves determining a set of manoeuvres and performance metrics that a vehicle must perform and pass in order to be road-worthy, instead of saying a vehicle can be a certain size or a certain weight. Through innovation and optimisation, using this method will then allow larger vehicles that are safe for driving on the road to be built. The research conducted here involved creating a PBS framework based on low-speed manoeuvrability for rigid delivery vehicles as well as assessing the high-speed stability of articulated vehicles to determine whether they would be safe for use on urban roads. Additionally, design changes such as incorporating rear axle steering were considered to determine whether vehicles that had failed the proposed PBS framework could be made to pass.


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    Titel :

    Performance assessment of urban goods vehicles


    Beteiligte:
    Isted, C. J. (Autor:in) / Eddy, C. (Autor:in) / Cebon, D. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Vehicle System Dynamics ; 60 , 7 ; 2469-2493


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    03.07.2022


    Format / Umfang :

    25 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Unbekannt







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