Publication
Title
Towards a model for sustainable platooning cooperation in road transport
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Abstract
Platooning trucks drive as a well-trained cycling peloton, which allows for significant (up to 20 per cent) fuel savings. Platooning could thus make an important contribution to the sustainability of road transport. Technology for platooning is now available and the remaining step is thus operational innovation. Logistic research mainly focusses on ad hoc platooning, whereby individual trucks constitute platoons, while driving on the highway. However, as a network-technology a large-scale transition would be required in order for this to be successful. A more accessible model seems therefore to lie in coopetive (cooperation between competitors) platooning networks, whereby different road carriers set up the platoons in a coordinated way. However, such a model comes with important legal questions, regarding membership, operation and liability. In order for such cooperation to be successful, a framework which receives sufficient industry support, adds to legal certainty and predictability while at the same time reducing transaction costs and providing a fair balance of interests is necessary. By combining transplants of sharing economy models from other domains(in specific cargo bundling) and theoretical research with industry preferences, this research aims to successfully design such model and proposes rules on membership, operation and liability.
Language
English
Source (book)
Sutainable and efficient transport: incentives for promoting a green transport market / Eftestøl-Wilhelmsson, E. [edit.]; Sankari, S. [edit.]; Bask, A. [edit.]
Publication
Edward Elgar , 2019
ISBN
978-1-78811-927-6
DOI
10.4337/9781788119283.00024
Volume/pages
p. 230-256
ISI
000584569400014
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
UAntwerpen
Faculty/Department
Research group
Project info
Economic and Competition Law.
Publication type
Subject
Law 
Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
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Creation 16.10.2019
Last edited 22.08.2024
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