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

Table 7

Platoon delays for platoon leaders and platoon vehicles under different operating policies.

The time threshold (minutes)	Nonplatoon (0)	2	4	6	8
The platoon size threshold (vehicles)	Nonplatoon (1)	2	4	6	8
Platoon scenarios	No platoons	(T2, V2)	(T4, V4)	(T6, V6)	(T8, V8)
Avg. delay of platoon leaders (minutes)	0	0.69	3.49	5.67	7.02
Avg. delay of platoon vehicles (minutes)	0	0.66	2.30	3.23	3.67