We consider a hub-based platoon coordination problem in which vehicles arrive at a hub
according to an independent and identically distributed stochastic arrival process. The
vehicles wait at the hub, and a platoon coordinator, at each time-step, decides whether to
release the vehicles from the hub in the form of a platoon or wait for more vehicles to arrive.
The platoon release time problem is modeled as a stopping rule problem wherein the
objective is to maximize the average platooning benefit of the vehicles located at the hub …