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Autonomous technologies now drive significant change in trucking and freight transportation. Transport Topics autonomous coverage provides a comprehensive look at that change. It provides the latest details on deployment concepts such as advanced driver-assist systems, transfer hubs, teleoperations, platooning and off-road automation and latest analysis of the companies who are manufacturing, adopting and investing in these technologies. Readers can follow the impact such deployment has on everything from policy and infrastructure initiatives to highway congestion, fuel consumption, fleet management, driver management and business investment.

Government, Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety, Autonomous

Can Bridges Handle Weight of Platooning Trucks? Engineering Firm Wants to Know

WASHINGTON — While truck-to-truck communication, driver training and safety have advanced the effort to hasten platooning to market, another critical aspect is looming and just may cause momentum to pull back some: the impact on infrastructure.

Lorrie Grant | Managing Editor
January 7, 2018
Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety, Autonomous

Peloton Pledges Commercial Platooning in 2018

2018 could bring commercial applications of truck platooning after successful demonstrations of the driver-assisted technology last month in Florida and Michigan by platooning developer Peloton Technology.

Burney Simpson | Staff Reporter
January 4, 2018
Business, Logistics, Autonomous, TCA

Largest Automated Container Terminal Begins Operation in China

A $2.15 billion fully automated container terminal started operating at Shanghai’s Yangshan Port.

Wang Ying | Asia News Network
January 2, 2018
Business, Technology, Equipment, Autonomous

Rollout of Active Steering in Trucking Draws Near

Active steering is steadily moving beyond the prototype stage and is expected to become available in commercial trucks within the next couple of years.

January 2, 2018
Business, Technology, Equipment, Autonomous

Passenger Cars Could Point Path to Automated Steering in Trucks

The passenger car market serves as an example of the kinds of automated steering systems truck makers will likely offer in the future.

B. Cameron Gain | Special to Transport Topics
January 2, 2018
Government, Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety, Fuel, Logistics, Autonomous

Full Speed Ahead for Economy, Trucking in 2018

Trucking firms are revved up for 2018, with predictions of tight capacity and strong demand for freight hauling setting the stage for an anticipated big year ahead for the industry, and indicators pointing to a potentially sustained period of business expansion in the United States and around the globe.

December 28, 2017
Business, Technology, Autonomous, TCA

Companies Race to Create Sensors for Self-Driving Vehicles

To drive a car, you need to see the world around you. But computers are blind, so autonomous cars must rely on other ways to perceive their surroundings.

Carolyn Said | San Francisco Chronicle
December 27, 2017
Government, Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety, Logistics, Autonomous

Capitol Agenda: The Best of 2017

No matter your place on the political spectrum, it is undeniable passage of the Republican-led tax reform measure was a monumental feat. This week we highlight our favorite news items from Capitol Agenda in 2017.

Eugene Mulero | Senior Reporter
December 26, 2017
Government, Technology, Equipment, Safety, Autonomous, TCA

Jacksonville, Fla., Opens Test Track to Future for Self-Driving Shuttles

The futuristic appeal of the autonomous vehicles that began operating Dec. 21 on the Jacksonville Transportation Authority test track is the prospect that eventually hundreds of them could be shuttling passengers around downtown.

David Bauerlein | The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, Fla.)
December 21, 2017
Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety, Autonomous

If You Hate Driving in the Snow, a Robot Can Now Do It For You

Self-driving cars may be the future, but relinquishing control of the wheel certainly takes some getting used to. It’s one thing to go (slowly) with the flow on well-marked city streets, for which many self-driving cars were initially developed and tested, but what happens when you throw icy winter road conditions into the mix?

Rachel Tepper Paley | Bloomberg News
December 21, 2017