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HGV platooning: unsuitable for UK roads

Philippa Edmunds
16 December 2016
 

While the aim of platooning is to reduce road congestion and pollution caused by HGVs, it will not dramatically reduce these adverse impacts or improve the current lack of internalisation of HGVs charges (‘Connected lorry trial for the M1?’ LTT 25 Nov). In fact, if freight costs are reduced for road haulage operators, there is a danger that the same freight could be transported further causing more adverse impacts to the economy and society (the rebound factor). 

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