Abstract
KEYWORDS – platoon, automated driving, safety, fuel savings, CO2 reduction
ABSTRACT
A platoon can be defined as a string of vehicles that travel together with very small intervehicle distances and actively coordinated by vehicle-to-vehicle communications in cooperation with advanced driving assistance systems. Even though there have been a large number of studies on platooning, the coordination of platoons has been largely neglected so far. The EU project COMPANION develops co-operative mobility technologies for supervised vehicle platooning in order to improve fuel efficiency and safety for goods transport. This paper presents the testing methodologies and results of the assessment and functional validation of the COMPANION cooperative platoon management system.