@article{ref1,
title="A simulation study on effects of platooning gaps on drivers of conventional vehicles in highway merging situations",
journal="IEEE transactions on intelligent transportation systems",
year="2022",
author="Aramrattana, Maytheewat and Larsson, Tony and Englund, Cristofer and Jansson, Jonas and Nåbo, Arne",
volume="23",
number="4",
pages="3790-3796",
abstract="Platooning refers to a group of vehicles that--enabled by wireless vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication and vehicle automation--drives with short inter-vehicular distances. Before its deployment on public roads, several challenging traffic situations need to be handled. Among the challenges are cut-in situations, where a conventional vehicle--a vehicle that has no automation or V2V communication--changes lane and ends up between vehicles in a platoon. This paper presents results from a simulation study of a scenario, where a conventional vehicle, approaching from an on-ramp, merges into a platoon of five cars on a highway. We created the scenario with four platooning gaps: 15, 22.5, 30, and 42.5 meters. During the study, the conventional vehicle was driven by 37 test persons, who experienced all the platooning gaps using a driving simulator. The participants' opinions towards safety, comfort, and ease of driving between the platoon in each gap setting were also collected through a questionnaire. The results suggest that a 15-meter gap prevents most participants from cutting in, while causing potentially dangerous maneuvers and collisions when cut-in occurs. A platooning gap of at least 30 meters yield positive opinions from the participants, and facilitating more smooth cut-in maneuvers while less collisions were observed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1524-9050",
doi="10.1109/TITS.2020.3040085",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2020.3040085"
}