New publication in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems [20.09.21]
Christian Krupitzer from the Department of Food Informatics is co-author of the publication "An Overview on Approaches for Coordination of Platoons" in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (Impact Factor: 6.492).
The publication "An Overview on Approaches for Coordination of Platoons" by Veronika Lesch (University of Würzburg) with co-authors Martin Breitbach (University of Mannheim), Michele Segata (Free University of Bolzano, Italy), Christian Becker (University of Mannheim), Samuel Kounev (University of Würzburg) and Christian Krupitzer (Department of Food Informatics, University of Hohenheim) was published in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (Impact Factor: 6.492). The IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems is concerned with the design, analysis, and control of information technology as it is applied to transportation systems. The IEEE ITS Transactions is focused on the numerous technical aspects of ITS technologies spanned by the IEEE.
In the recent past, platooning evolved into an attractive cooperative driving technology, broadly discussed in research and practice. Vehicles in platoons use cooperative adaptive cruise control to drive at close distances to each other. Platooning (i) increases the capacity of the street by a factor of 2; (ii) reduces the fuel consumption and emissions by up to 20%; and (iii) has social implications as it increases driver comfort and safety. As platooning research progresses, platooning coordination becomes a major research focus. The coordination of platoons, including the assignment of vehicles to platoons, the management of inter- and intra-platoon interactions, and the coordination of interactions with other vehicles is an important step towards an effective usage of platooning in practice. Based on a literature review of 1,600 papers, this survey provides an overview of state of the art in platooning coordination research for both cars and
trucks. In this paper, we present a novel taxonomy for platooning coordination and classify existing approaches. We use the results of the literature review to discuss challenges and outline avenues for future work such as multi-objectiveness and individualisation.
The publication is available in the IEEE Xplore digital library.
