Temporal planning for transportation planning and scheduling

The authors report preliminary work toward the creation of an integrated solution to a transportation planning and scheduling domain within the HSTS temporal planning framework. The reference problem is a simplified domain that displays some of the main characteristics of the complete transportation problem. The transportation problem is outlined. The fundamental characteristics of HSTS are described. The focus is on the representation of multiple capacity resources. The areas considered are how HSTS has been extended to represent aggregate resource capacity, how the simplified domain can be modeled. and a constraint-directed planner that solves transportation problems in the simplified domain