Thanks for the prompt reply.
<vType id="other" minGap="2.000000000000" maxSpeed="35.000000000000" speedFactor="normc(1.000000000000,0.100000000000,0.200000000000,2.000000000000)" impatience="0.500000000000" maxSpeedLat="1.000000000000" latAlignment="center" minGapLat="0.600000000000" laneChangeModel="SL2015" lcStrategic="1.0" lcCooperative="1.0" lcSpeedGain="1.0" lcKeepRight="1.0" lcSublane="1.0" lcPushy="1" lcPushyGap="0" lcAssertive="1.0" lcImpatience="0.001" lcTimeToImpatience="100" lcAccelLat="10" lcLookaheadLeft="2.0" lcSpeedGainRight="1.0" carFollowModel="IDM" accel="3.0" decel="5.5" tau="0.1"/>
<vType id="rl" minGap="0.000000000000" maxSpeed="35.000000000000" speedFactor="normc(1.000000000000,0.100000000000,0.200000000000,2.000000000000)" impatience="0.500000000000" maxSpeedLat="1.000000000000" latAlignment="center" minGapLat="0.600000000000" laneChangeModel="SL2015" lcStrategic="1.0" lcCooperative="1.0" lcSpeedGain="1.0" lcKeepRight="1.0" lcSublane="1.0" lcPushy="1" lcPushyGap="0" lcAssertive="1.0" lcImpatience="0.001" lcTimeToImpatience="100" lcAccelLat="10" lcLookaheadLeft="2.0" lcSpeedGainRight="1.0" carFollowModel="IDM" accel="3.0" decel="5.5" tau="0.1"/>
I tried to play around also with the minGap (only difference I see between these two vTypes) and that is indeed influencing the headway - only for the rl type:
1) If minGap = 0: I get the headway as reported above: pre load: 245.65, post load and subscribe: 243.15 (from kernel_api.vehicle.getSubscriptionResults(rl_id))
2) If minGap = 2: pre load: 245.65, post load and subscribe: 245.15
3) If minGap = 3: pre load: 245.65, post load and subscribe: 246.15
Moreover, if I setLength of a vehicle (as in case #2 above) I see that multiple vTypes are generated with "cascade-like" vType ids as "rl@rl0@rl0'''.