Decision Support for Traffic Management Based on Organisational and Communicative Multiagent Abstractions

Authors

Sascha Ossowski
Josefa Z. Hernandez
Maria-Victoria Belmonte
Alberto Fernandez
Ana Garcia-Serrano
Jose-Luis Perez-de-la-Cruz
Juan-Manuel Serrano
Francisco Triguero

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2005

Subject Area

operations - traffic, infrastructure - fleet management, land use - planning, organisation - management

Keywords

Traffic control, System architecture, Multi-agent systems (Planning), Intelligent agents, Fleet management, Design, Decision support systems, Autonomous agents

Abstract

A multiagent approach to the construction of decision support systems (DSS) has become increasingly popular in the transportation sector. This approach reduces design complexity, while adequately supporting a dialogue-based stance on decision support interactions. This paper outlines a design method for the construction of agent-based DSS. Setting out from an organizational and communicative model of decision support environments, the authors present an abstract architecture for multiagent DSS. The authors demonstrate their approach by applying the abstract architecture to design prototype DSS for road traffic management and bus fleet management scenarios.

Comments

Transportation Research Part C Home Page: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0968090X

Recommended Citation

Ossowski, Sascha, Hernandez, Josefa, Belmonte, Maria-Victoria, Fernandez, Alberto, Garcia-Serrano, Ana, Perez-de-la-Cruz, Jose-Luis, Serrano, Juan-Manuel, Triguero, Francisco, (2005). Decision Support for Traffic Management Based on Organisational and Communicative Multiagent Abstractions. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Volume 13, Issue 4, pp 272-298.