Design and implementation of an intelligent cab service system

Abstract

Cab booking service is a major transport service provided by the various transport operators in a particular city. Most of the people use cab service for their daily transportations need. More and more taxi companies are looking for integrated taxi booking systems as it makes life much easier for the customer as well for the company. Most of the existing online cabs booking systems use the centralized approach to search, find, and book the cab. The centralized approaches are highly prone to single point of failure. In this study, we design and implement the intelligent agents based distributed cab system for serving passengers using local information. The implementation and analysis of proposed approach are carried out by using a Java-based distributed multi-agent system framework — Java Agent DEvelopment Framework (JADE). Simulation results manifest that our approach is able to encounter the shortcomings of the centralized approach.