Research Article

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

Table 6

Average delay of platoon vehicles for different demand levels.

Demand levels100%80%60%40%20%

The number of travel requests (trips)274522196216417109805490
Avg. fleet size per service point1701361026834

Platoon scenariosAvg. delay of platoon vehicles (minutes)
(T2, V2)0.660.660.660.660.66
(T4, V4)2.302.302.382.512.75
(T6, V6)3.233.223.293.503.67
(T8, V8)3.673.673.874.014.62