PlaSA - Platooning Service Architecture

Platooning is a solution that allows automated vehicles to travel very close to each other, enabling enhancements in terms of safety, traffic flow and highway capacities. Furthermore, it provides a more convenient and comfortable driving experience to the drivers. The research on Platooning covers a very large spectrum of areas, ranging from communication strategies to controller solutions. However, most of the proposed works tend to present very specific solutions, treating platooning almost as a "black-box". Thus, it is imperative to find solutions that allow a proper assembly of every component that is crucial for a proper behavior of the system as a whole. This paper presents an open and modular architecture for platooning as a service, discussing its general assumptions and the logical and functional models. Additionally, some related preliminary results are also presented.