Multi-agent systems for traffic and transportation engineering [electronic resource] / Ana L.C. Bazzan and Franziska Klugl, editor.
Publication details: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.Description: electronic texts (xxi, 424 p. : ill., maps) : digital filesISBN:- 9781605662275 (ebook)
- 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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- TA1230 .M85 2009e
- Also available in print.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 B�ohm -- Learning Agents for Collaborative Driving / Charles Desjardins, Julien Laum�onier, 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 / Tam�as M�ahr -- 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.].
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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. Presenting a collection of approaches to issues in traffic and transportation, it offers a compilation of chapters with innovative methods and systems written by leading international researchers.
Also available in print.
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