A Design of Intelligent and Autonomous Public Transportation System by Co-evolution
Akira Imada · 2005
Nowadays every big city has its own public transportation system, like the one with citybuses as we can see everywhere all over the world. This article describes a design of such system. Usually, public vehicles follow the pre-set courses with a pre-set schedule determined by human. Our goal is to make each of these vehicles determine autonomously and intelligently by themselves their appropriate behavior such as, what time should it start; which course should it follow; how long should it stay at one stop, and so on. The design will be by co-evolution between the system of transportation versus traffic environment. The latter includes three items: (i) a map of roads which is created randomly at the start; (ii) not-so-intelligent-but-rather-with-random-movement people, like us; and (iii) cars with not so intelligent behavior either. The transportation system evolves to be more and more intelligent while environment evolves to be more and more difficult to be explored.