Title
Impact of radio channel characteristics on the longitudinal behaviour of truck platoons in critical car-following situations
Author
Sharma, Salil (TU Delft Transport and Planning) 
Al-Khanak, Ehab Nabiel (Van Oord)
Riebl, Raphael (Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt)
Schakel, W.J. (TU Delft Transport and Planning)
Knoppers, P. (TU Delft Transport and Planning)
Verbraeck, A. (TU Delft Policy Analysis)
van Lint, J.W.C. (TU Delft Transport and Planning)
Contributor
Blenk, Andreas (editor)
Fischer, Mathias (editor)
Fischer, Stefan (editor)
Hellbrück, Horst (editor)
Hohlfeld, Oliver (editor)
Kassler, Andreas (editor)
Kuladinithi, Koojana (editor)
Lamersdorf, Winfried (editor)
Landsiedel, Olaf (editor)
Timm-Giel, Andreas (editor)
Vinel, Alexey (editor)
Date
2021
Abstract
Truck platooning is an application of cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) which relies on vehicle-to-vehicle communications facilitated by vehicle ad-hoc networks. Communication uncertainties can affect the performance of a CACC controller. Previous research has not considered the full spectrum of possible car-following scenarios needed to understand how the longitudinal behaviour of truck platoons would be affected by changes in the communication network. In this paper, we investigate the impact of radio channel parameters on the string stability and collision avoidance capabilities of a CACC controller governing the longitudinal behaviour of truck platoons in a majority of critical car-following situations. We develop and use a novel, sophisticated and open-source VANET simulator OTS-Artery, which brings microscopic traffic simulation, network simulation, and psychological concepts in a single environment, for our investigations. Our results indicate that string stability and safety of truck platoons are mostly affected in car-following situations where truck platoons accelerate from the standstill to the maximum speed and decelerate from the maximum speed down to the standstill. The findings suggest that string stability can be improved by increasing transmission power and lowering receiver sensitivity. However, the safety of truck platoons seems to be sensitive to the choice of the path loos model.
Subject
cooperative adaptive cruise control
radio channel
Truck platoons
V2V
VANET
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.14279/tuj.eceasst.80.1162
Publisher
European Association of Software Science and Technology (EASST)
Embargo date
2022-03-15
ISBN
1863-2122
Source
Conference on Networked Systems 2021 (NetSys 2021), 80
Event
The Conference on Networked Systems, 2021-09-13 → 2021-09-16, Virtual event
Series
Electronic Communications of the EASST, 1863-2122, 80
Bibliographical note
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Part of collection
Institutional Repository
Document type
conference paper
Rights
© 2021 Salil Sharma, Ehab Nabiel Al-Khanak, Raphael Riebl, W.J. Schakel, P. Knoppers, A. Verbraeck, J.W.C. van Lint