US Patent 12118880 Systems and methods for coordinated vehicle lane assignment

Systems and methods described herein relate to coordinated vehicle lane assignment. One embodiment receives from a locality manager, at a section manager that communicates with one or more connected vehicles in a section of a roadway, target lateral flows for two or more lanes of the roadway in the section of the roadway; converts the target lateral flows to a target number of connected vehicles N at the section manager; selects for lane change, at the section manager, a set of N connected vehicles whose ranked distances from a following vehicle in a target lane are greatest among the one or more connected vehicles, when a direction of lane change is uniform among the set of N connected vehicles; and transmits lane-change actions from the section manager to the set of N connected vehicles.