Using simulation to evaluate how multi-agent transportation planners cope with truck breakdowns

Using simulation to evaluate how multi-agent transportation planners cope with truck breakdowns

Máhr, T.
Srour, F.J.
De Weerdt, M.

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Software Computer Technology

2011-04-11

In most real-world settings, a transportation plan requires modifications during execution. A thorough evaluation of transportation planning methods thus requires testing and comparison in a dynamic environment. We give conditions on a simulation environment that follow from this requirement, and propose a multi-agent simulator meeting these conditions. In addition, we propose a new measure that captures robustness in such dynamic settings. The multi-agent simulator and the robustness measure are then used to compare three different transportation methods (two multi-agent planners and one online optimization approach) in settings with release time uncertainty and truck breakdown incidents.

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:25c0b9d7-2076-4d04-a28d-de295ee1f09f

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNSC.2011.5874912

IEEE

978-1-4244-9573-3

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, Delft, The Netherlands, 11-13 April 2011; post-print version

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