Secondly, at increased traffic flow levels formation of platoons is frequent resulting in an increase of shorter headways.
Presence of slower vehicles in such traffic leads to frequent formation of platoons, thereby, increases the risk taking behavior of drivers' while overtaking.
However, once the proportion of slower vehicles starts increasing, formation of platoons is quite evident resulting in an increase of shorter headways.
This was further investigated by plotting the nomographs wherein probability of headway less than 7.5 s or more was observed to increase almost sharply with the flow; this attributes to frequent formation of platoons and higher amount of car following interaction.
It is argued in this paper that a well-automated platoon formation of vehicles is an extreme case of conformity.
Platoon formation of vehicles is a linear or planar formation of vehicles where a certain and a constant headway, and sideway if applicable, is provided in between every and each one of them.
If roads are the future, then so is the self-driving car, functioning like an on-demand taxi system, connected into a centralized traffic database to avoid congestion and minimize time, and driven by computers in a platoon formation of 5-10 cars to minimize aerodynamic drag by up to 35%.
"Do you want to stand in formation with third platoon?" my old platoon sergeant asked.
And Mr. Stone, the director of "Platoon," "Wall Street" and "J.
Without loss of generality, we place the sender paralleling to the center of platoon Z.
