Review of the 21st Century Truck Partnership:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC National Academies Press c2008
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references
Organization and background -- Management strategy and priority setting -- Engine systems and fuels -- Heavy-duty hybrid vehicles -- Parasitic losses of energy -- Engine idle reduction -- Safety of heavy vehicles
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 118 p.)
ISBN:0309122082
0309122090
9780309122085
9780309122092

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