# Balancing Safety and Traffic Throughput in Cooperative Vehicle Platooning

## TL;DR

This paper introduces a distributed control system for vehicle platoons at intersections, balancing safety and traffic throughput using V2V communication to optimize intersection efficiency.

## Contribution

It presents a novel cooperative control architecture that integrates safety considerations with traffic throughput optimization at signalized intersections.

## Key findings

- Enhanced traffic throughput through small inter-vehicle distances.
- Trade-off analysis between safety and efficiency in platoon control.
- Validation of the control approach via simulations or experiments.

## Abstract

In this paper we propose a distributed model predictive control architecture to coordinate the longitudinal motion of a vehicle platoon at a signalized intersection. Our control approach is cooperative; we use vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication in order to maintain small inter-vehicle distances and correspondingly achieve large vehicle throughput at an intersection. We study the trade-off between safety and road throughput for this problem. In particular, we present the link between traffic efficiency gains in terms of throughput, and safety of the connected platoon measured as trust on the predicted speed profile of other vehicles in the network.