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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826409503321

Titolo

Review of the 21st Century Truck Partnership / / Committee to Review the 21st Century Truck Partnership, Board on Energy and Environmental Systems, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : National Academies Press, c2008

ISBN

0-309-17826-6

1-281-80037-6

9786611800376

0-309-12209-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (131 p.)

Disciplina

363.731

Soggetti

Trucks - Energy consumption - United States

Trucks - Environmental aspects - United States

Trucks - Fuel consumption

Trucks - Pollution control devices

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""SUMMARY""; ""1 ORGANIZATION AND BACKGROUND""; ""2 MANAGEMENT STRATEGY AND PRIORITY SETTING""; ""3 ENGINE SYSTEMS AND FUELS""; ""4 HEAVY-DUTY HYBRID VEHICLES""; ""5 PARASITIC LOSSES OF ENERGY""; ""6 ENGINE IDLE REDUCTION""; ""7 SAFETY OF HEAVY VEHICLES""; ""A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members""; ""B Presentations and Committee Meetings""; ""C R&D Funding Trends of the FreedomCAR and Vehicle Technologies Program""; ""D Vehicle Emission Regulations""; ""E Acronyms and Abbreviations""; ""F State of the Art in Light-Duty Electric Vehicles""

""G Members of the 21st Century Truck Partnership""

Sommario/riassunto

The 21st Century Truck Partnership (21CTP), a cooperative research and development partnership formed by four federal agencies with 15 industrial partners, was launched in the year 2000 with high hopes that it would dramatically advance the technologies used in trucks and buses, yielding a cleaner, safer, more efficient generation of vehicles.



Key recommendations of the book include that the 21CTP should be continued, but the future program should be revised and better balanced. A clearer goal setting strategy should be developed, and the goals should be clearly stated in measurable engineering terms and reviewed periodically so as to be based on the available funds.