Title :
On-line information services in urban integrated transportation networks
Author :
Di Febbraro, Angela ; Sacone, Simona
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Commun., Comput., & Syst. Sci., Genoa Univ., Italy
Abstract :
An urban transportation network in which public and private modes of transport coexist is considered in this paper. The dynamic behaviour of such a network is modelled by means of discrete-event techniques and is reproduced via an ad-hoc realized simulation tool. A major module of the overall simulator consists in an online information service able to provide the best intermodal paths between any pair of stations in the network. Such paths vary according to the system dynamics, depending essentially on the traffic conditions. The attention of this work is focused on the heuristic algorithm defined and adopted to search for the required optimal paths
Keywords :
discrete event simulation; heuristic programming; information services; optimisation; public information systems; discrete-event techniques; heuristic algorithm; intermodal paths; online information service; simulation tool; traffic conditions; urban integrated transportation networks; Discrete event simulation; Discrete event systems; Heuristic algorithms; Information systems; Intelligent networks; Kernel; Real time systems; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Transportation;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Transportation System, 1997. ITSC '97., IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4269-0
DOI :
10.1109/ITSC.1997.660557