There are data on the movement of passengers between transport areas at different times of the day. Also known available-buses. The question is: what routes and on what schedule should walk buses, that would be: all transportation needs have been satisfied to meet a specified level of passenger service?
For your problem, multi-agent systems appear to be a reasonable modelling approach, especially the ant optimization techniques appear promising here. I pulled out two papers here from researchgate that could be of help for you.
Later on, you could also consider using a modification to each ant generation, by means of genetic variation.
Regards,
M
Article Using Ant Algorithm to Arrange Taxiway Sequencing in Airport
Article An Inverted Ant Colony Optimization approach to traffic
You can use Arena simulation to simulate. You can take a look at my paper or can ask me in details ...Welcome :)
Since the routes are fixed and the number of buses are also fixed basically it is an optimization problem onlt. If suppose you can change the number of buses ( transport media) and the plying routes then you can chose a sophisticated optimization technique. I feel you can use fuzzy logic for this provblem since the number of passengers are unpredictable all the times. You can combine Genetic algorthem for optimization and fuzzy for prediction based allocation of routes and number of transports on that traffic line.
See:
1. Carl Henrik Hall. A framework for evaluation and design of an integrated public transport system. 2006
2. Anita Schöbel Optimization in Public Transportation. Stop Location, Delay Management and Tariff Zone Design in a Public Transportation Network 2010
Sergei -
I was 'browsing' this question, and it sounded like an Operations Research problem, an area in which I've had peripheral interest in the past. Looking at the answers you have received, I see that that is the case, and that the ant optimization techniques use graphics, something I think can often be appealing, and simulations sound great as well. So, I was wondering how these techniques might improve over the old simplex method, or would that perhaps be a method worth using for comparison or confirmation purposes or for further exploration?
Perhaps the simplex method is completely outdated, and not a useful thought, and if so, perhaps someone can say why. Or if it might be useful, as a supplementary or complementary approach here, perhaps someone can say why.
Cheers - Jim
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