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heinovski2024incentive-preprint


Julian Heinovski, Doganalp Ergenç, Kirsten Thommes and Falko Dressler, "Incentive-based Platoon Formation: Optimizing the Personal Benefit for Drivers," arXiv, cs.MA, 2411.00570, November 2024, pp. 1–15.


Abstract

Platooning or cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) has been investigated for decades, but debate about its lasting impact is still ongoing. Even though platooning benefits and platoon formation are rather well understood for trucks, this is less clear for passenger cars, which have a higher heterogeneity in trips and drivers' preferences. Most importantly, it remains unclear how to form platoons of passenger cars in order to optimize the personal benefit for the individual driver. To this end, in this paper, we propose a novel platoon formation algorithm that optimizes the personal benefit for drivers of individual passenger cars. For computing vehicle-to-platoon assignments, the algorithm utilizes a new metric that we propose to evaluate the personal benefits of various driving systems, including platooning. By combining fuel and travel time costs into a single monetary value, drivers can estimate overall trip costs according to a personal monetary value for time spent. This provides an intuitive way for drivers to understand and compare the benefits of driving systems like human driving, adaptive cruise control (ACC), and, of course, platooning. Unlike previous similarity-based methods, our proposed algorithm forms platoons only when beneficial for the driver, rather than for the sake of platooning only. Results of a large-scale simulation study demonstrate that our proposed algorithm outperforms normal ACC as well as previous similarity-based platooning approaches by balancing fuel savings and travel time, independent of traffic and drivers' time cost.

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Julian Heinovski
Doganalp Ergenç
Kirsten Thommes
Falko Dressler

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@techreport{heinovski2024incentive-preprint,
    author = {Heinovski, Julian and Ergen{\c{c}}, Doganalp and Thommes, Kirsten and Dressler, Falko},
    doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2411.00570},
    title = {{Incentive-based Platoon Formation: Optimizing the Personal Benefit for Drivers}},
    institution = {arXiv},
    month = {11},
    number = {2411.00570},
    pages = {1--15},
    type = {cs.MA},
    year = {2024},
   }
   
   

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