Intelligent buses in a loop service: emergence of no-boarding and holding strategies

• Main Authors: Saw, Vee-Liem, Vismara, Luca, Chew, Lock Yue
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Science::Physics; Bus Terminals; Bus Transportation
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145027
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We study how N intelligent buses serving a loop of M bus stops learn a no-boarding strategy and a holding strategy by reinforcement learning. The no-boarding and holding strategies emerge from the actions of stay or leave when a bus is at a bus stop and everyone who wishes to alight has done so. A r...