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Connected-and-automated vehicles (CAV) hold the potential for substantial improvements to traffic safety, travel time reliability, driver comfort, roadway capacity, environmental impacts, and users’ overall travel experience. Numerous modeling and simulation studies have been conducted to evaluate these impacts. However, model accuracy and simulation assumptions limit the validity of evaluation results. These factors have resulted in the wide range of differences in effectiveness among studies examining the same CAV applications available in the literature. In this study, we propose a bundled CAV application that involves platoons of equipped vehicles governed by an integrated set of cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC), cooperative merge, and speed harmonization applications. We implemented the bundled application in a fleet of five vehicles at the Saxton Transportation Operations Lab of the …