A method for wireless communication at a lead vehicle within a group of platooning vehicles, comprising: determining (220; 1005) a communication resource requirement for the group of platooning vehicles, the communication resource requirement based at least in part on a number of vehicles forming the group of platooning vehicles and a communication range of at least a portion of the platooning vehicles; assigning a sequential identifier to each vehicle in the group of platooning vehicles; identifying (225; 1010), based at least in part on the identified communication resource requirement, an assignment of time-frequency radio resources to use for inter-vehicle communications in the group of platooning vehicles; assigning, according to the sequential identifiers and the communication range of at least the portion of platooning vehicles, a first subset of time-frequency radio resources from the assignment of time-frequency radio resources to a first group of platooning vehicles and a second subset of time-frequency radio resources from the assignment of time-frequency radio resources to a second group of platooning vehicles, the first subset of time-frequency radio resources being non-overlapping in time and are overlapping in frequency with respect to the second subset of time-frequency radio resources and, wherein the first group of platooning vehicles and the second group of platooning vehicles each comprise one or more subgroups of platooning vehicles that are non-overlapping in frequency respectively, each subgroup comprising two or more platooning vehicles that are out of communication range with one another; transmitting (230; 1015) an indication of the assignment of time-frequency radio resources to the group of platooning vehicles; and performing inter-vehicle communications using the selected subset of time-frequency radio resources. determining (220; 1005) a communication resource requirement for the group of platooning vehicles, the communication resource requirement based at least in part on a number of vehicles forming the group of platooning vehicles and a communication range of at least a portion of the platooning vehicles; assigning a sequential identifier to each vehicle in the group of platooning vehicles; identifying (225; 1010), based at least in part on the identified communication resource requirement, an assignment of time-frequency radio resources to use for inter-vehicle communications in the group of platooning vehicles; assigning, according to the sequential identifiers and the communication range of at least the portion of platooning vehicles, a first subset of time-frequency radio resources from the assignment of time-frequency radio resources to a first group of platooning vehicles and a second subset of time-frequency radio resources from the assignment of time-frequency radio resources to a second group of platooning vehicles, the first subset of time-frequency radio resources being non-overlapping in time and are overlapping in frequency with respect to the second subset of time-frequency radio resources and, wherein the first group of platooning vehicles and the second group of platooning vehicles each comprise one or more subgroups of platooning vehicles that are non-overlapping in frequency respectively, each subgroup comprising two or more platooning vehicles that are out of communication range with one another; transmitting (230; 1015) an indication of the assignment of time-frequency radio resources to the group of platooning vehicles; and performing inter-vehicle communications using the selected subset of time-frequency radio resources.