Dealing with Uncertainty in Operational Transport Planning

Dealing with Uncertainty in Operational Transport Planning

Zutt, J.
Van Gemund, A.J.C.
De Weerdt, M.M.
Witteveen, C.

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Software Computer Technology

2010-12-31

An important problem in transportation is how to ensure efficient operational route planning when several vehicles share a common road infrastructure with limited capacity. Examples of such a problem are route planning for automated guided vehicles in a terminal and route planning for aircraft taxiing at airports. Maintaining efficiency in such transport planning scenarios can be difficult for at least two reasons. Firstly, when the infrastructure utilization approaches saturation, traffic jams and deadlocks may occur. Secondly, incidents where vehicles break down may seriously reduce the capacity of the infrastructure and thereby affect the efficiency of transportation. In this chapter we describe a new approach to deal with congestion as well as incidents using an intelligent infrastructure. In this approach, infrastructural resources (road sections, crossings) are capable of maintaining reservations of the use of that resource. Based on this infrastructure, we present an efficient, context-aware, operational transportation planning approach. Experimental results show that our context-aware planning approach outperforms a traditional planning technique and provides robustness in the face of incidents, at a level that allows application to real-world transportation problems.

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Springer

https://doi.org/doi:10.1007/978-90-481-3598-1_14

Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, 42 (3), 2010: Intelligent Infrastructures; authors version

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