  We model a platooning system including trucks and a third-party service
provider that performs platoon coordination, distributes the platooning profit
within platoons, and charges the trucks in exchange for its services. This
paper studies one class of pricing rules, where the third-party service
provider keeps part of the platooning profit each time a platoon is formed.
Furthermore, we propose a platoon coordination solution based on distributed
model predictive control in which the pricing rule is integrated. To evaluate
the effect of the pricing on the platooning system, we perform a simulation
over the Swedish road network. The simulation shows that the platooning rate
and profit highly depend on the pricing. This suggests that pricing needs to be
set carefully to obtain a satisfactory platooning system in the future.
