Advanced connected and automated vehicle technologies enable us to modify driving
behavior and control vehicle trajectories, which have been greatly constrained by human
limits in existing manually-driven highway traffic. In order to maximize benefits from these
technologies on highway traffic management, vehicle trajectories need to be not only
controlled at the individual level but also coordinated collectively for a stream of traffic. As
one of the pioneering attempts to highway traffic trajectory control, Part I of this study (Zhou …

This paper studies a problem of designing trajectories of a platoon of vehicles on a highway
segment with advanced connected and automated vehicle technologies. This problem is
very complex because each vehicle trajectory is essentially an infinite-dimensional object
and neighboring trajectories have complex interactions (eg, car-following behavior). A
parsimonious shooting heuristic algorithm is proposed to construct vehicle trajectories on a
signalized highway segment that comply with boundary conditions for vehicle arrivals …