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Dealing with Uncertainty in Operational Transport Planning
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| Author | Weerdt, Mathijs De Gemund, Arjan Van Zutt, Jonne Witteveen, Cees |
| Abstract | Abstract An important problem in transportation is how to ensure efficient oper-ational route planning when several vehicles share a common road infrastructure with limited capacity. Examples of such a problem are route planning for auto-mated guided vehicles in a terminal and route planning for aircraft taxiing at air-ports. Maintaining efficiency in such transport planning scenarios can be difficult for at least two reasons. Firstly, when the infrastructure utilization approaches sat-uration, traffic jams and deadlocks may occur. Secondly, incidents where vehicles break down may seriously reduce the capacity of the infrastructure and thereby af-fect the efficiency of transportation. In this chapter we describe a new approach to deal with congestion as well as incidents using an intelligent infrastructure. In this approach, infrastructural resources (road sections, crossings) are capable of main-taining reservations of the use of that resource. Based on this infrastructure, we present an efficient, context-aware, operational transportation planning approach. Experimental results show that our context-aware planning approach outperforms a traditional planning technique and provides robustness in the face of incidents, at a level that allows application to real-world transportation problems. |
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