Open AccessEmpty vehicles management as a method for reducing passenger waiting time in Personal Rapid Transit networks
Author(s) -
Daszczuk Wiktor Bohdan,
Choromański Włodzimierz,
Mieścicki Jerzy,
Grabski Waldemar
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
iet intelligent transport systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.579
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1751-9578
pISSN - 1751-956X
DOI - 10.1049/iet-its.2013.0084
Subject(s) - benchmark (surveying) , heuristic , computer science , transit (satellite) , state (computer science) , fleet management , real time computing , transport engineering , simulation , operations research , engineering , public transport , algorithm , artificial intelligence , geodesy , geography
Empty vehicles management may improve the average waiting time for vehicle delivery in the Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) network. In this study, original heuristic algorithm of empty vehicle management is presented. The algorithm is tested in several benchmark PRT structures under Feniks simulation environment. The results show that significant improvements of average waiting time may be achieved just because of the multi‐parameter analysis of the present network state alone rather than by the predictive use of forecasted demand. The algorithm does not use any central database of demand and location of free vehicles. Instead, it assumes the local exchange of data between stations on their state and expected vehicles. Therefore it seems well tailored to a distributed implementation.