Assessment of public transport control systems: a comparative analysis of platforms and a new platform architecture

Ghariani, Nesrine; Elkosantini, Sabeur; Darmoul, Saber; Saïd, Lamjed Ben

doi:10.1504/ijstl.2016.078679

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“…It is important to note that no reference benchmark exists to assess PTCS. 4 Therefore, we developed our own benchmark. We define two other scenarios, different from learning scenarios, with a different PTS including a bus line with 18 stop stations.…”

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“…4 Many researchers have investigated the design and development of multiagent architectures to control public bus transportation systems. Unfortunately, very often, decision makers are left on their own and have to rely on their expertise and experience to analyze information and make regulatory decisions considering operational constraints and targeted quality of service.…”

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“…Therefore, it has become necessary to implement public transportation control systems (PTCSs) to support decision makers in monitoring the good execution of early-prepared timetables and in determining control decisions timely to react to disturbances, maintain performance and quality of service, and prevent passenger dissatisfaction. 4 Many researchers have investigated the design and development of multiagent architectures to control public bus transportation systems. Reviews of the use of multiagent systems (MASs) in transportation and traffic engineering can be found in the work of Bazzan and Klügl 5 and Chen and Cheng.…”

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In public bus transportation systems, several types of disturbances, such as accidents and congestion, may affect preestablished timetables and visiting hours at stations. Disturbances result in detrimental consequences, degraded performance, and poor quality of service in terms of extended delays and waiting times, punctuality, frequency, and efficiency of shuttles. Despite numerous research on the monitoring and control of public transportation systems by means of buses, distributed monitoring and control architectures that confer intelligence and decision-making autonomy to buses to react to disturbances are still missing. This article addresses this gap by designing and developing a distributed architecture to monitor and control public transportation buses using multiagent systems. The design relies on biological immunity as a methodological framework that guides the development of knowledge models and decision-making mechanisms. Knowledge models structure knowledge about disturbances and control decisions, whereas decision-making mechanisms implement control and reaction strategies. Through experimental validation based on simulation, we show that the suggested immune multiagent distributed control architecture is not only able to maintain performance (average delay/earliness, average total time in simulated network) at acceptable levels but also to improve quality of service in terms of number of served passengers and stations by at least 15% in case of disturbances. KEYWORDS artificial immune system, biological immune system, immune memory, multiagent system, negative selection theory, public transport control system

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“…Relevant qualitative indicators that serve as performance indicators for a particular connection between tariff points should be included in a comprehensive assessment of the connections incorporated in a timetable [34,35].…”

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“…In publication [33], the methodology for examining the connectivity on a transport infrastructure, where the transport policy is applied to the specific case study regarding the high-speed rail, is the research topic in regard to transport infrastructure. In [34,35], a stability simulation analysis for intercity railways is presented, and in [36][37][38], new technologies for intelligent transport systems improving the transport connection quality on a certain network are described and analyzed.…”

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The paper is focused on the issue of assessing the quality of transport connectivity on a predesignated transport network in regular public passenger transport at a regional scale. Comprehensively, using the defined key qualitative indicators, it assesses the performance of passenger transport timetables, in both ways of ex ante, as well as ex post. Existing methodologies in a given issue have only dealt with a partial assessment of the transport connectivity quality on specific transport network. However, unlike them, the objective of this manuscript was to propose a new unified methodology to assess the passenger transport timetables in terms of transport connectivity, and subsequently to complexly evaluate the whole predesignated regional transport network from a qualitative point of view. In this paper, the proposed methodology is demonstrated on a particular regional transport network, specifically an existing railway network in the Slovak Republic, whereby the data related to regional passenger transport timetables for a certain day is an input factor. The purpose of this study was to design and verify a draft methodological procedure to assess the quality of transport connectivity on a certain transport network, thus moving towards more effective evaluation of integrated transport systems. Its practical applicability consists in comparison of existing and proposed timetables, which is considered one of the crucial factors in terms of public passenger transport quality.Sustainability 2019, 11, 3532 2 of 18 in the Slovak Republic is poor, in particular in regard to demands placed on it. Regional differences in the quality of transport network, which has far-reaching consequences in terms of increasing economic and social disparities among individual parts of the country, are also apparent [4][5][6][7]. Previous research studies [8][9][10][11][12] have confirmed that the quality of transport infrastructure is considered a crucial element which makes decisions about the foreign investment allocation very often. The offered quality of transport network connectivity is considerably related to services provided within transport sector [4].The main task of transport is to satisfy the customers' requirements for quality, flexible, fast, and safe transportation of passengers and cargo [1,3]. Quality is differently perceived from the transport user [12], transport services provider, or transport organizer point of view, but also from the society-wide point of view. This is caused due to the fact that assessing the quality of transport network connectivity is performed in a non-systematic manner, regardless of the interaction of carried passengers with traffic or transport system [12,13]. Customers' needs and expectations are monitored by establishing procedures in accordance with the Regulation (EC) No 1371/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2007 on rail passengers' rights and obligations [14][15][16].Based on the previous research studies [17][18][19][20][21], it can be declared that on...

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Assessment of public transport control systems: a comparative analysis of platforms and a new platform architecture

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An immune multiagent system to monitor and control public bus transportation systems

An immune multiagent system to monitor and control public bus transportation systems

Approach Methodology for Comprehensive Assessing the Public Passenger Transport Timetable Performances at a Regional Scale

An immune network based distributed architecture to control public bus transportation systems

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