Multi agent based railway scheduling and optimization

Abstract

This paper proposes a multi agent based timetable scheduling algorithm for railway system which handles the in-between time delay of the newly introduced train. The delay management indeed optimizes the total journey time, hence increases the total utility of the whole railway system as well. Here we show that schedule generated by our proposed algorithm is the most optimized schedule. It is done by using the notion of DCOP(Distributed Constraint Optimization Problem), where we define some metric to analyze the system to achieve our goals. We use JADE(Java Agent DEvelopment Framework) platforms to simulate our work and test it using a small network. We also take a small case study to compare our proposed work with the existing one and the results are therefore presented. © 2014 IEEE.