Multi-agent systems for traffic and transportation engineering

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Bazzan, Ana L. C., Klügl, Franziska.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.
• Subjects: Transportation > Data processing.; Transportation engineering > Data processing.; Traffic engineering > Data processing.; Intelligent agents (Computer software); Activity-travel patterns; Autonomous intersection control; Complex traffic simulation; Collaborative driving; Evacuation dynamics; Microscopic traffic modelling; Pedestrian dynamics; Public transport systems; Route information sharing; Traffic congestion management; Traffic flow
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Our increasing societal demand for mobility now challenges researchers to devise more efficient traffic and transportation systems. This book provides a unique compendium of research covering topics such as transportation system designs, control devices, and techniques to optimize existing networks....

Table of Contents:

• Adaptation and Congestion in a Multi-Agent System to Analyse Empirical Traffic Problems / Takeshi Takama
• A Multi-Agent Modeling Approach to Simulate Dynamic Activity-Travel Patterns / Qi Han ... [et al.]
• MATSim-T / Michael Balmer ... [et al.]
• TRASS / Ulf Lotzmann
• Applying Situated Agents to Microscopic Traffic Modelling / Paulo Ferreira ... [et al.]
• Fundamentals of Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics / Andreas Schadschneider ... [et al.]
• "Social Potential" Models for Modeling Traffic and Transportation / Rex Oleson ... [et al.]
• Towards Simulating Cognitive Agents in Public Transport Systems / Sabine Timpf
• An Unmanaged Intersection Protocol and Improved Intersection Safety for Autonomous Vehicles / Kurt Dresner, Peter Stone, Mark Van Middlesworth
• Valuation-Aware Traffic Control / Heiko Schepperle, Klemens Böhm
• Learning Agents for Collaborative Driving / Charles Desjardins, Julien Laumônier, Brahim Chaib-draa
• Traffic Congestion Management as a Learning Agent Coordination Problem / Kagan Tumer, Zachary Welch, Adrian Agogino
• Exploring the Potential of Multiagent Learning for Autonomous Intersection Control / Matteo Vasirani, Sascha Ossowski
• New Approach to Smooth Traffic Flow with Route Information Sharing / Tomohisa Yamashita, Koichi Kurumatani
• Multiagent Learning on Traffic Lights Control / Denise Oliveira, Ana Bazzan
• The Merit of Agents in Freight Transport / Tamás Máhr
• Analyzing Transactions Costs in Transport Corridors Using Multi Agent-Based Simulation / Lawrence Henesey, Jan Persson
• A Multi-Agent Simulation of Collaborative Air Traffic Flow Management / Shawn Wolfe ... [et al.].