Platoons of connected vehicles can double throughput in urban roads

摘要: Intersections are the bottlenecks of urban road system because an intersection's capacity is only a fraction flows that roads connecting to intersection can carry. This be increased if vehicles cross intersections in platoons rather than one by as they do today. Platoon formation enabled connected vehicle technology. paper assesses potential mobility benefits platooning. It argues saturation flow rates, and hence capacity, doubled or tripled The argument supported analysis three queuing models simulation network with 16 73 links. simulations reveal signalized fixed time control will support increase demand factor (say) two all same factor, no change control. Furthermore, despite experience delay travel time. scaling improvement achieved when replaced max pressure adaptive Part alternatively used reduce queue lengths associated decreasing cycle Impediments achieve platooning at appear small.