Optimal assignment of buses to bus stops in a loop by reinforcement learning

• Main Authors: Vismara, Luca, Chew, Lock Yue, Saw, Vee-Liem
• Other Authors: Interdisciplinary Graduate School (IGS)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Science::Physics; Transportation; Express Bus
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160279
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Bus systems involve complex bus-bus and bus-passengers interactions. We study the problem of assigning buses to bus stops to minimise the average waiting time of passengers, W. An analytical theory for two specific cases of interactions is formulated: normal situation where all buses board passen...