Agents meet Traffic Simulation, Control and Management: A Review of Selected Recent Contributions

In the last decades, transport demand has increased quickly due to several concurrent factors. The negative impacts of increased demand have many effects on both travelers themse lv s and communities and some actions need to mitigate them. To this purpose, progresses in different scientific fields as co mputer science, electronic, communication as well as studies on ne w and more sophisticated traffic simulation models contributed t o realize Intelligent Transport Systems (ITSs), which provide advanced transport services for a better and efficient use of transpor t networks. The adoption of the software agent technology has giv en a significant contribution to the ITS development, due to their capability to both simulate traffic scenarios at different levels of detail and provide intelligent decision-making frameworks. Intelligent agents make it possible to study human behavior s and machine-to-machine interactions with the aim to simulate,control and manage transportation networks. Given their relevance, in the last years a great body of researches and surveys have bee n proposed in the literature on this matter. This paper wants to contribute by providing an overview of the most significant advancements produced during the period 20132015. Keywords—Software Agents, Traffic Control, Traffic Management, Traffic Simulation.

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