id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt hq37vm44935 Eduardo Fernando Mello Minimizing Transportation Energy in Urban Environments: An Optimization Approach for Connected EVs 2022 .txt text/plain 463 19 32 If the only term in the cost function is transportation energy, and all other conditions are formulated as constraints (maximum acceleration, average speed, etc.), substantial energy cost reductions are possible. The prime motivation of urban platooning comes from the fact that urban platoons efficiently utilize the available road space, at least partially alleviating the problem of ``mixed traffic'' where some vehicles optimize transportation energy and others do not. cache/hq37vm44935.txt txt/hq37vm44935.txt