Admission rule design shapes fuel savings more than accounting detail or look-ahead in simulated truck platooning: data and code

This repository contains the data, code and supporting materials for the manuscript “Admission rule design shapes fuel savings more than accounting detail or look-ahead in simulated truck platooning.” The study compares truck-platoon admission rules across 400 synthetic scenario families, each with paired front and rear candidate configurations. Individual lateness allowances of 5, 15, 60 and 300 seconds are evaluated, with fuel consumption accounting for the complete trips of all four trucks. The comparisons examine admission thresholds, joining maneuvers, transient fuel accounting, planning for uncertain later requests, road grade and drafting assumptions. The archive includes scenario definitions, model inputs, calibration records, raw and processed simulation outputs, analysis scripts, Supplementary Tables S1–S18, figure source data and editable figure assets. Native numerical verification covers 32 selected families, with indexed raw evidence for 3,396 required native inputs. The README and accompanying documentation explain the directory structure, data fields, software dependencies and reproduction procedures. Included scripts regenerate the reported summary results from archived outputs without repeating the simulation-engine runs. The scenarios and admission outcomes are simulated. Drafting calibration is anchored to published track measurements, with sources and assumptions documented in the Supplementary Information.