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Chapter 13
INNOVATIVE TRENDS
IN FREIGHT ROAD VEHICLES
(Krzysztof Sza³ucki, Andrzej Letkiewicz)
13.1. Introduction
Innovative solutions in freight road vehicles cover means of transport cycle and
cargo cycle. The main direction of changes in freight road vehicles consists in reducing
environmental impact by reducing noxious emissions in exhaust fumes.
In cargo cycle, innovativeness of freight road vehicles aims at adapting means of
transport to transporting cargo that requires strict specialisation and unification
useful in intermodal transport.
13.2. Energy and environmental reasons
behind innovation in propulsion
Innovation in freight road vehicles should be considered from the point of view
of complementary production cycles of transport: means of transport cycle,
which in this case is the cycle of freight road vehicles and the cycle of the object
carried - in this case the cargo.
Development and innovativeness of solutions concerning freight vehicles in
road transport are mainly caused by the necessity to reduce harmful environmental
impact of this mode of transport. The directions of the measures undertaken
refer to improvement of the currently applied technical solutions and
looking for new solutions that would change the technology radically. The directions
of overall changes refer to abandoning oil as the basic source of energy
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