Towards valuation-aware agent-based traffic control

Traffic authorities work hard to improve resource utilization in traffic. But these efforts do not consider that the valuations of waiting time can be different for each driver, e.g., a driver of a courier service delivering express mail typically has a higher valuation of reduced waiting time than other motorists. We propose that traffic-control mechanisms should be valuation-aware and propose and describe such a mechanism called Time-Slot Exchange. The idea of this mechanism is that vehicles are assigned time slots to cross the intersection, and vehicles, or, more specifically, agent-based driver-assistance systems of the vehicles can then trade these time slots. Simulations show that our mechanism increases overall satisfaction considerably, compared to a state-of-the-art traffic-control mechanism. Categories and Subject Descriptors I.2.11 [Artificial Intelligence]: Distributed Artificial Intelligence--Multiagent systems General Terms Algorithms, Economics, Measurement Keywords Age...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ATAL
• Authors: Heiko Schepperle, Klemens Böhm, Simone Forster
• Keywords: ATAL 2007, Intelligent Agents, State-of-the-art Traffic-control Mechanism, Time Slots, Traffic-control Mechanism