California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology

This report documents the CACC implementation and field tests for Class-8 trucks. The CACC system design for this implementation has been documented in a separate report. The field tests include two types: some limited freeway tests for control system tuning and development purposes, and extensive tests of fuel consumption at Transport Canada’s Motor Vehicle Test Centre near Montreal. Although the objective of the latter test was for fuel economy analysis of CACC operations, the data have been used for CACC performance analysis in  this report since most of the fundamental scenarios have been tested systematically.