A METHOD FOR OPERATING A TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

The invention relates a method for operating a transportation system (20) comprising a first vehicle platoon (1a) and a second vehicle platoon (1b), where each of the first and second vehicle platoons has a lead vehicle (2) and a plurality of vehicles (3) following the lead vehicle (2). The method comprises the steps of controlling the first vehicle platoon (1a) and the second vehicle platoon (1b) by means of a control system (30), driving the first vehicle platoon (1a) in a first lane (21) of a road (22) and the second vehicle platoon (1b) in a second lane (23) of the road (22), where the road (22) comprises a bottleneck section (24) where the first lane (21) and the second lane (23) merge into a single lane (25), and controlling the first vehicle platoon (1a) and the second vehicle platoon (1b) such that the first vehicle platoon and the second vehicle platoon are synchronized before reaching the bottleneck section (24) enabling the first vehicle platoon (1a) and the second vehicle platoon (1b) to enter the single lane (25) one after the other.