Assessing the Potential of the Strategic Formation of Urban Platoons for Shared Automated Vehicle Fleets

Algorithm 2

Pseudocode for determining platoon plans.

	INPUT: Groups of vehicles
	FOR grouped vehicles in each destination group
	Determine the leader for the grouped vehicles ;
	Initiate a platoon according to the platoon leader’s information (location and shortest route);
	Assign the other vehicles in the group into the new platoon as followers;
	Determine the vehicle sequence according to the arrival time;
	Adjust the shortest routes of the followers in to the shortest route of the platoon leader ;
	ENDFOR
	OUTPUT: Platoon plans, including platoon ID, a leader and its followers, a platoon route, the vehicle sequence