Title :
Distributed holding control of bus transit operations
Author :
Zhao, Jiamin ; Dessouky, Maged ; Bukkapatnam, Satish
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Ind. & Syst. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
A distributed control approach based on multi-agent negotiation is presented to address the bus-holding problem. The negotiation between a bus agent and a stop agent is conducted based on marginal cost calculations. Optimality conditions are discussed in the paper. Finally, comparison between the negotiation algorithm and commonly used strategies are done through simulations, which verify the robustness of our negotiation algorithm to different transit environments
Keywords :
distributed control; multi-agent systems; road traffic; transportation; bus agent; bus transit operations; distributed holding control; marginal cost calculations; multiagent negotiation; optimality conditions; robustness; stop agent; Artificial intelligence; Costs; Distributed control; Environmental economics; Intelligent transportation systems; Job shop scheduling; Real time systems; Robustness; Vehicles; Velocity control;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Oakland, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7194-1
DOI :
10.1109/ITSC.2001.948794
