The flatbed platoon towing model for safe and dense platooning on highways

IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 58-68

  Ali, Alan ^a   Garcia, Gaetan ^b   Martinet, Philippe ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE EN COMMUNICATIONS ET CYBERNÉTIQUE DE NANTES   (France)

^b ECOLE CENTRALE DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONGITUDINAL CONTROL; STABILITY; VEHICLES;

DATA-COMMUNICATION; INTER DISTANCES; NEW APPROACHES; SPACING POLICIES; SPRING DAMPER MODEL; STRING STABILITY; TRAFFIC DENSITIES; VARIABLE SPACING;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EID: 84921442018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19391390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MITS.2014.2328670     Document Type: Article

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