An Agent-Based Approach to Assess Drivers' Interaction with Pre-Trip Information Systems

• Tipo: Artigo em Revista Científica Internacional
• Data: 2005

Autores

Rosaldo J. F. Rossetti (Autor) FEUP; Ronghui Liu (Autor) FEUP

Revista

Título: Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems

Vol. 9

Páginas: 1-10

ISSN: 1547-2450

Editora: Taylor & Francis

Indexação

Scopus - 20 Citações

INSPEC

Classificação Científica

FOS: Ciências da engenharia e tecnologias > Outras ciências da engenharia e tecnologias

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: P-007-DM3

DOI: 10.1080/15472450590912529

Abstract (EN): This article reports on the practical use of a multi'agent microsimulation framework to address the issue of assessing drivers' responses to pretrip information systems. The population of drivers is represented as a community of autonomous agents, and travel demand results from the decision-making deliberation performed by each individual of the population as regards route and departure time. A simple simulation scenario was devised, where pretrip information was made available to users on an individual basis so that its effects at the aggregate level could be observed. The simulation results show that the overall performance of the system is very likely affected by exogenous information, and these results are ascribed to demand formation and network topology. The expressiveness offered by cognitive approaches based on predicate logics, such as the one used in this research, appears to be a promising approximation to fostering more complex behavior modelling, allowing us to represent many of the mental aspects involved in the deliberation process. Copyright © Taylor and Francis Inc.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica