National Summary Statistics for Depot-Based Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Operations

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This file provides nationally aggregated summary statistics to characterize the daily operations of medium and heavy duty vehicles. It provides typical daily driving distances, domicile dwell durations, and one version of potential normalized electric vehicle depot charging load curves. The methodology to create this data was designed with national representativeness in mind, and the data is suitable for national analysis. The dataset characterizes the subset of medium and heavy duty vehicle operating patterns that may originate from a consistent depot each day (and thus may rely on the same depot for charging if the vehicle were electrified). In addition to trucks with depot-centric vocational patterns, the data also describes operations of transit buses and school buses. A detailed description of this data and associated methodology is available as an NREL technical report, "Depot-based vehicle data for national analysis of medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicle charging" (https://www.nlr.gov/docs/fy24osti/88241.pdf).

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TY  - DATA
AB  - This file provides nationally aggregated summary statistics to characterize the daily operations of medium and heavy duty vehicles. It provides typical daily driving distances, domicile dwell durations, and one version of potential normalized electric vehicle depot charging load curves. The methodology to create this data was designed with national representativeness in mind, and the data is suitable for national analysis. The dataset characterizes the subset of medium and heavy duty vehicle operating patterns that may originate from a consistent depot each day (and thus may rely on the same depot for charging if the vehicle were electrified). In addition to trucks with depot-centric vocational patterns, the data also describes operations of transit buses and school buses. A detailed description of this data and associated methodology is available as an NREL technical report, "Depot-based vehicle data for national analysis of medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicle charging" (https://www.nlr.gov/docs/fy24osti/88241.pdf).
AU  - Bruchon, Matthew
A2  - Borlaug, Brennan
A3  - Liu, Bo
A4  - Jonas, Tim
A5  - Sun, Jiayun
A6  - Le, Nhat
A7  - Wood, Eric
DB  - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)
DP  - Open EI | National Laboratory of the Rockies
DO  - 
KW  - transportation
KW  - transportation data
KW  - MHDV
KW  - medium-duty vehicles
KW  - heavy-duty vehicles
KW  - trucks
KW  - transit buses
KW  - school buses
KW  - commercial fleet vehicle operating data
KW  - electric vehicles
KW  - PEV charging
KW  - load profiile
LA  - English
DA  - 2024/02/27
PY  - 2024
PB  - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
T1  - National Summary Statistics for Depot-Based Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Operations 
UR  - https://data.openei.org/submissions/8280
ER  -

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Bruchon, Matthew, et al. National Summary Statistics for Depot-Based Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Operations . National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 27 February, 2024, NREL. https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/231.

Bruchon, M., Borlaug, B., Liu, B., Jonas, T., Sun, J., Le, N., & Wood, E. (2024). National Summary Statistics for Depot-Based Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Operations . [Data set]. NREL. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/231

Bruchon, Matthew, Brennan Borlaug, Bo Liu, Tim Jonas, Jiayun Sun, Nhat Le, and Eric Wood. National Summary Statistics for Depot-Based Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Operations . National Renewable Energy Laboratory, February, 27, 2024.  Distributed by NREL. https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/231

@misc{OEDI_Dataset_8280,
title = {National Summary Statistics for Depot-Based Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Operations },
author = {Bruchon, Matthew and Borlaug, Brennan and Liu, Bo and Jonas, Tim and Sun, Jiayun and Le, Nhat and Wood, Eric},
abstractNote = {This file provides nationally aggregated summary statistics to characterize the daily operations of medium and heavy duty vehicles. It provides typical daily driving distances, domicile dwell durations, and one version of potential normalized electric vehicle depot charging load curves. The methodology to create this data was designed with national representativeness in mind, and the data is suitable for national analysis.\ The dataset characterizes the subset of medium and heavy duty vehicle operating patterns that may originate from a consistent depot each day (and thus may rely on the same depot for charging if the vehicle were electrified). In addition to trucks with depot-centric vocational patterns, the data also describes operations of transit buses and school buses.\ A detailed description of this data and associated methodology is available as an NREL technical report, "Depot-based vehicle data for national analysis of medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicle charging" (https://www.nlr.gov/docs/fy24osti/88241.pdf).},
url = {https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/231},
year = {2024},
howpublished = {NREL, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/231},
note = {Accessed: 2026-09-09}
}

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Data from Feb 27, 2024

Last updated May 22, 2026

Submitted Feb 27, 2024