Route optimisation using evolutionary approaches for on-demand pickup problem
by Naoto Mukai, Toyohide Watanabe
International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP), Vol. 2, No. 1, 2010

Abstract: The development of information technologies realises an on-demand transport (pick-up) system. In this paper, we simulate transport situations for the system based on multi-agent model to find efficient strategies. We examine four types of driver agents; random agent, greedy agent, Q-learning agent, and Genetic agent. Random agent and Greedy agents select the next pick-up points from its surround without learning and optimisation. In contrast, Q-learning agent estimates the expectation value of pick-up quantity by Q-learning, and Genetic agent optimises its travel routes by Genetic algorithm. Finally, we report our experimental results to evaluate the effect of the four strategies.

Online publication date: Mon, 30-Nov-2009

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