Analysis and Design of Vehicle Platooning Operations on Mixed-Traffic Highways

Platooning of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) has a significant potential for throughput improvement. However, the interaction between CAVs non-CAVs may limit practically attainable improvement due to platooning. To better understand address this limitation, we introduce new fluid model mixed-autonomy traffic flow use analyze design platoon coordination strategies. We propose tandem-link that considers randomly arriving platoons sharing highway capacity with non-CAVs. derive verifiable conditions stability by analyzing an underlying M/D/1 queuing process establishing Foster–Lyapunov drift condition model. These enable quantitative analysis under various scenarios. The is useful designing strategies maximize minimize delay. Such are provably optimal in relevant. also validate our results using standard macroscopic (cell transmission model) microscopic (simulation urban mobility) simulation models.