Buses departure time control agent

This paper explores the use of the bus departure control agents to improve bus services, and illustrates the scheme for constructing the agent. The bus departure control agents are capable of better managing bus departure at the start stop. The agents have components belief warehouse, rule warehouse, environmental set, action set and so on. Agent selects actions to perform from action set according to the support assessment of these actions. While the support assessment of the action is assess by agent in accordance with the rules and beliefs. Finally, an example in Nanjing illustrates how the model worked numerically; the practicality of bus stop agent keeping traffic order is explored by the example.