A Multi-Agent Information System Architecture for Multi-Modal Transportation

Abstract

Nowadays, we are witnessing significant growth in terms of demand for public transport and the need for travel. This is due to an increase in population density, traffic congestion, lack of information and all the problems that the transport network is facing. Following the reasons cited, the movement of travelers is becoming increasingly difficult. Indeed, as soon as the trip requires the use of one or more services of a transport operator, the planning of the trip requires the traveler to collect the necessary information on the various websites of the transport operators concerned. The objective of this work is to develop an architecture of an information system for multi-modal transport, based on the notions of agents, in order to provide the users with the optimized itinerary to follow and to avoid the consultation of several transportation websites to plan the trip. In addition to this, the system is based on the notion of multi-objective optimization to combine the different modes of transport and satisfy the different criteria such as minimization of the travel time and the number of correspondence between stations.