Agent Based Modelling for Simulating Taxi Services

摘要: Taxi services account for a significant part of the daily trips in most cities around world. Due to fact that taxi markets are regulated by central authority there is need developing tools understanding behavior these policy regulations and supporting decision makers. This paper presents an agent based model simulating urban areas. models presented literature can be grouped into aggregated, equilibrium simulation models, with latter having been studied lesser extent. Agent powerful tool analyzing such complex problems, where stochastic nature variables spatial distribution hinders application aggregated models. The agent-based together behavioral rules agents applied city Barcelona, obtaining optimum number vehicles performance indicators provision under dispatching operation mode.