Advanced Mobility and Transport Engineering

by Slim Hammadi (Editor), Mekki Ksouri (Editor)

Overview

Multimodal transport network customers need to be directed during their travels. A travel support tool can be offered by a Multimodal Information System (MIS), which allows them to input their needs and provides them with the appropriate responses to improve their travel conditions.

The goal of this book is to design and develop methodologies in order to realize a MIS tool which can ensure permanent multimodal information availability before and during travel, considering passengers' mobility.

The authors propose methods and tools that help transport network customers to formulate their requests when they connect to their favorite information systems through PC, laptop, cell phone, Portable Digital Assistant (PDA), etc. The MIS must automatically identify the websites concerning the customer's services. These sites can, in fact, represent transport services, cultural services, tourist services, etc. The system should then be able to collect the necessary travel information from these sites in order to construct and propose the most convenient information according to the user’s requests.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848213777
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	06/18/2012
Series:	ISTE Series , #695
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Slim Hammadi is Full Professor at the Ecole Centrale de Lille in France, and Director of the LAGIS Team on Optimization of Logistic systems. He is an IEEE Senior Member. He specializes in distributed optimization, multi-agent systems, supply chain management and metaheuristics.

Mekki Ksouri is Professor and Head of the Systems Analysis, Conception and Control Laboratory at Tunis El Manar University, National Engineering School of Tunis (ENIT) in Tunisia. He is an IEEE Senior Member. He specializes in control systems, nonlinear systems, adaptive control and optimization.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Slim HAMMADI and Mekki KSOURI

Introduction xiii

Chapter 1. Agent-oriented Road Traffic Simulation 1
René MANDIAU, Sylvain PIECHOWIAK, Arnaud DONIEC and Stéphane ESPIÉ

1.1. Introduction 1

1.2. The principle of multi-agent systems 2

1.3. General remarks on traffic simulation devices 8

1.4. ArchiSim simulator 12

1.5. The issue of traffic simulation in intersections 14

1.6. Assessment of different scenarios 21

1.7. Conclusion 25

1.8. Bibliography 26

Chapter 2. An Agent-based Information System for Searching and Creating Mobility-aiding Services 31
Slim HAMMADI and Hayfa ZGAYA

2.1. Introduction 31

2.2. Formulating the problem 33

2.3. The global architecture of the system 36

2.4. Proposal of a resolution system with several interactive entities: a dynamic multi-agent system 42

2.5. The behavior of a scheduling agent 44

2.6. Managing system robustness when dealing with disruptions: advancing a negotiation process between stationary and mobile entities 59

2.7. The usefulness of a dedicated dynamic ontology 61

2.8. Simulations and results 64

2.9. Conclusion and perspectives 76

2.10. List of abbreviations 76

2.11. Bibliography 77

Chapter 3. Inter-vehicle Services and Communication 81
Sylvain LECOMTE, Thierry DELOT and Mikael DESERTOT

3.1. Introduction 81

3.2. The specificity of inter-vehicle communication 84

3.3. Inter-vehicle communication 91

3.4. Deployment and maintenance 95

3.5. What kind of future can we envisage for inter-vehicle services and communication technologies? 107

3.6. Bibliography 107

Chapter 4. Modeling and Control of Traffic Flow 111
Daniel JOLLY, Boumediene KAMEL and Amar BENASSER

4.1. General introduction 111

4.2. Microscopic models 114

4.3. Macroscopic models 118

4.4. General remarks concerning macroscopic and microscopic models 127

4.5. Hybrid models 129

4.6. Different strategies for controlling road traffic flow systems 147

4.7. Conclusion 164

4.8. Bibliography 164

Chapter 5. Criteria and Methods for Interactive System Evaluation: Application to a Regulation Post in the Transport Domain 173
Houcine EZZEDINE, Abdelwaheb TRABELSI, Chi Dung TRAN and Christophe KOLSKI

5.1. Introduction 173

5.2. Principles and criteria of evaluation 174

5.3. Methods, techniques and tools for the evaluation of interactive systems 181

5.4. Toward automated or semi-automated evaluation assistance tools 201

5.5. Proposal of a generic and configurable environment to aid in the evaluation of agent-based interactive systems: EISEval 213

5.6. Context of operation of the proposed evaluation environment 217

5.7. Conclusion 228

5.8. Bibliography 230

List of Authors 241

Index 245