Acceptance of an additional 2.05m on the length of a semi-trailer – although with no increase in gross weight – looks tantalisingly close for UK roads
Cambridge,UK -Transport Engineer, by Brian Tinham -25 Oct 2010: ... Addressing a meeting of the Cambridge Vehicle Dynamics Consortium (CVDC) last week, Professor Brian Collins, chief scientific advisor to the DfT (Department for Transport), suggests that one of the deciding factors may well be the amount of new road-building, following the coalition government's Comprehensive Spending Review... The DfT advisor believes that on the agenda will be harnessing intelligence in the vehicles, and their future knowledge of traffic situations, but also increasing truck capacities, to reduce the number of journeys and hence also traffic congestion... With CVDC research suggesting that congestion causes a factor of two increase in fuel consumption (far in excess of any positive outcomes from technology and driver improvements), longer trailers may well be seen as killing two birds with one stone... (Photo from roadtransport/big-lorry-blog (UK): Kogel Big-MAXX trailer--300 )
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