A convoy of automobile trucks arrived in the Dutch port of Maasvlakte in the framework of known experience as the European Truck Convoy Challenge. This challenge demonstrates the future of transport in Europe, according to organizers.
There are six different manufacturers involved in this challenge, namely Daimler, Volvo and Scania among others. Scania is a subsidiary of Volkswagen. Initially, each convoy set out from different places and when the trucks reached the highways where traffic more or less consistent throughout, they traveled in a convoy. Each truck, either the head or the truck after truck, a human driver at hand. Scania has traveled the longest distance, more than 2,000 kilometers covering Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and its final destination in the Netherlands.
There are some advantages of a convoy. One of them is that both the first truck and the next truck used in fuel average of 10 percent less per trip. On top of that by using the autonomous driving technology, it could lead to fewer traffic accidents that says a white paper TNO, a Dutch research firm, 0 percent of accidents caused by human error conduct.
There are still more work to be done to make it a reality. border rules and the protocol for the establishment of a convoy must be established. All these will be discussed at an informal meeting of European Transport Council April 14.
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