Passengers trips planning using contract-net with filters

Abstract

This work presents a mediated planning model for the scheduling of trip requests under a passenger transportation system. The approach is based on the Contract-Net Protocol plus a bids-filtering process. For the implementation was used an agent framework that can be easily extended to build different types of trips planning systems. Finally, our model with filters was confronted with centralized and decentralized optimization approaches. The first results show that in-between solutions can be obtained. © 2005 IEEE.