Excited to announce that TRAIN students Geordie Roscoe and Matt Parkes, along with Prof. Dick have recently published a new research paper in the Transportation Research Record academic journal! This paper is related to their work on initial operational modeling of platoons of battery-powered, autonomous, Parallel Systems rail vehicles to transport intermodal shipping containers on low-density short-haul corridors.
The reference and DOI link for the paper is as follows:
Roscoe, G.S., M.M. Parkes and C.T. Dick. 2024. Improving short-haul intermodal transit times on low-density rail corridors with platoons of Self-Propelled Autonomous Railcars (SPARCs). Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. doi: 10.1177/03611981241248442.