Letter to the Editor—A Mathematical Model for Platoon Formation
- 1 May 1972
- journal article
- Published by Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in Transportation Science
- Vol. 6 (2) , 202-204
- https://doi.org/10.1287/trsc.6.2.202
Abstract
Under single-lane no-passing conditions it may be assumed that a vehicle's actual speed si is given by si = min[v1, v2, …, vi], where the vj represent the desired speeds of the vehicles ahead. If the desired speeds are assumed to be identically distributed random variables then several properties of the resulting platoon structures are independent of the particular density function. Several of these results are presented.Keywords
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