A collaborative multiagent taxi-dispatch system

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 607-616

  Seow, Kiam Tian ^a   Dang, Nam Hai ^b   Lee, Der Horng ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b EON Reality Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Automated software agents; intelligent paratransit transportation; service automation; taxi dispatch

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE AGENTS; DISPATCH SYSTEMS; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; EXISTING SYSTEMS; HUMAN DRIVERS; MULTI-AGENT; MULTI-AGENT APPROACH; MULTIAGENT ARCHITECTURE; OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES; PARATRANSIT; SERVICE AUTOMATION; SINGAPORE; TAXI DISPATCH; TAXI DRIVERS; TAXI OPERATORS; TRANSPORTATION SERVICES;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; SALES; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION;

EID: 77954386866     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2009.2028577     Document Type: Article

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