Journal of Advanced Transportation

Research Article

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

Table 1

Comparison of the strategic platoon formation studies at the route level.
StudiesModeling componentsImpact analysis
Many vehiclesRoad network levelDemand and supply interactionMixed trafficPlatoon policiesCoordination strategiesPlatoon vehiclesTraffic throughputEnergy consumptionService level (waiting and travel times)
Platoon sizesFormation time constraintsSpeed adjustment (Slow down or catch up)Hold-on strategy
TrafficAerodynamics
Hall and Chin [21]✓   ✓✓ ✓✓✓   
Larson et al. [26]✓✓   ✓✓ ✓  ✓ 
Saeednia and Menendez [22]     ✓✓ ✓    
Larsson et al. [23]✓✓   ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Liang et al. [5]     ✓✓ ✓  ✓ 
van de Hoef [25]✓✓   ✓✓ ✓  ✓ 
Johansson et al. [27]✓✓   ✓ ✓✓    
Our approach✓✓✓✓✓✓ ✓✓ ✓ ✓