Modelling travel routes in transport systems by means of timed and hybrid petri nets

Abstract

Timed Petri nets (TPN) and first order hybrid Petri nets (FOHPN) are tested here in order to model transport systems and to find the suitable travel routes in different non-standard situations during the increased traffic density (i.e. at the bounded traffic or congestion). This work extends our previous work where the flexible routes in transport systems were found by means of the place/transition Petri nets (P/T PN). While at usage of the TPN only the time parameters are assigned to the P/T PN model transitions, the FOHPN model is different and it yields the continuous flows of vehicles.