Route optimisation using evolutionary approaches for on-demand pickup problem

  • Authors:
  • Naoto Mukai;Toyohide Watanabe

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Division 1, Tokyo University of Science, Kudankita, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0073, Japan.;Department of Systems and Social Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The development of information technologies realises an on-demand transport (pick-up) system. In this paper, we simulate transport situations for the system based on multi-agent model to find efficient strategies. We examine four types of driver agents; random agent, greedy agent, Q-learning agent, and Genetic agent. Random agent and Greedy agents select the next pick-up points from its surround without learning and optimisation. In contrast, Q-learning agent estimates the expectation value of pick-up quantity by Q-learning, and Genetic agent optimises its travel routes by Genetic algorithm. Finally, we report our experimental results to evaluate the effect of the four strategies.