Decision support system for urban transportation networks

  • Authors:
  • P. Borne;B. Fayech;S. Hammadi;S. Maouche

  • Affiliations:
  • Ecole Centrale de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper deals with the real-time regulation of traffic within a disrupted transportation system. We outline the necessity of a decision support system that detects, analyzes, and resolves the unpredicted disturbances. Due to the distributed aspects of transportation systems, we present a multi-agent approach for the regulation process. Moreover, this approach also includes an evolutionary algorithm that is based on an original genetic coding representing the decisions on a set of vehicles and stops affected by the disturbance. This set constitutes, in fact, the space-time horizon of the regulation process. The evolutionary algorithm then treats the regulation problem as an optimization and provides the regulator with relevant decisions that can result in a partial reconfiguration of the network.