Repository logo

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
  1. Home
  2. Academic and Research Output
  3. Journal articles
  4. Minimizing Emission for Timely Heavy-Duty Truck Transportation
 
research article

Minimizing Emission for Timely Heavy-Duty Truck Transportation

Su, Junyan
•
Zhou, Runzhi
•
Liu, Qingyu
Show more
2024
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems:7cbfb63e-09a2-4b42-9ad5-44c3eda9338d

We consider the problem of minimizing emission of a heavy-duty truck transporting freight between two locations subject to a hard deadline constraint. The truck is equipped with a multi-speed transmission and a modern combustion engine that intelligently switches among multiple fuel injection strategies at certain engine speeds (called switching speeds) to achieve lower emission profiles. Our objective is to minimize the emission by optimizing both path and speed planning for heavy-duty trucks with multi-speed transmission and multiple injection strategies in the engine. This emission minimization problem, while pervasive in practice, has two challenges: i) the emission rate function is discontinuous and non-convex due to switching of the fuel injections and gear ratios, which makes the common practice of driving at a constant speed on a road segment not eco-friendly; ii) the problem is NP-hard due to the combinatorial nature of the simultaneous path and speed planning. We tackle the first challenge by considering the case where the truck can travel at a heterogeneous speed profile over a road segment and then formulate the speed planning problem as a convex problem. We further identify special structures in this problem and provide an efficient method for computing the optimal speed profile. We then tackle the second challenge by developing an efficient heuristic for both path planning and speed planning to solve the emission minimization problem on the scale of national highway systems. Our extensive simulations on the US highway system show that our solution reduces up to 46% NOx emission as compared to the commonly-adopted fastest path approach. We also find that optimizing heterogeneous speed profiles reduce up to 32% emission as compared to their homogeneous counterpart, thus are necessary to be considered in eco-friendly truck operations.

  • Details
  • Metrics
Type
research article
DOI
10.1109/TITS.2024.3509899
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85212605963

Author(s)
Su, Junyan

City University of Hong Kong

Zhou, Runzhi

School of Engineering and Applied Science

Liu, Qingyu

Peking University

Xu, Wenjie  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Chen, Minghua

City University of Hong Kong

Zeng, Haibo

Virginia Tech College of Engineering

Date Issued

2024

Publisher

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Published in
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems:7cbfb63e-09a2-4b42-9ad5-44c3eda9338d
Subjects

emission

•

Energy-efficient transportation

•

engine fuel injection strategy

•

timely transportation

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

Written at

EPFL

EPFL units
LA3  
Available on Infoscience
January 25, 2025
Use this identifier to reference this record
https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/244292
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
  • Contact
  • infoscience@epfl.ch

  • Follow us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Instagram
  • Follow us on LinkedIn
  • Follow us on X
  • Follow us on Youtube
AccessibilityLegal noticePrivacy policyCookie settingsEnd User AgreementGet helpFeedback

Infoscience is a service managed and provided by the Library and IT Services of EPFL. © EPFL, tous droits réservés