MADARP: multi-agent architecture for passenger transportation systems

Abstract

This work presents the MADARP agent architecture, devoted to the implementation of passenger transportation systems. It provides a set of base agents that perform the basic interface, planning and support services for managing different types of transportation requests by using an heterogeneous fleet. The agent use allows to easily adapt the architecture to different planning models by integrating vehicles and users in a pervasive way. Three planning models were implemented using the architecture and compared to check the framework validity.