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

Table 4

Summary of the main model parameters.

Category	Value
The perimeter of the study area	46 km
The size of the study area	139 km^2
Time steps for speed update	6 seconds
Intervehicle distance () in platoons	6 meters
Avg. fleet size per service point (vehicles) for 100% demand	170
Service points (centroids of the zones)	49
Road segments	836
Road nodes	510
Total travel demand	27452 trips
Maximum number of platoon vehicles	{2, 4, 6, 8} vehicles
Time threshold for platoon leaders	{2, 4, 6, 8} minutes
Charging time	30 minutes
Coefficients	3.05
Battery initial capacity	24 kWh
Average travel time under light traffic	18 minutes