The drawing up of the motion schedule in the intelligent urban passenger transport system

Abstract

This article is devoted to description of the basic principles of constructing a motion schedule in an intelligent urban passenger transport system based on robotic vehicles, which ensures the non-conflict motion of unmanned vehicles, in which the vehicles in front do not delay those following them. In the introduction of the article, a description of the basic problems of modern urban passenger transport systems and the formulation of the research targets are given. The section "Principles of ITS function" provides a description of the transport system concept and principles of functioning for the aim that the reader can receive a holistic view of the research subject. A basic characteristic features of this intelligent urban passenger transport system are that ITS is capable of timely adjusting to changes in demand for transportation, because processes occurring in the transport system (collection of service requests, data processing and analysis, planning and organization of transportation) are cyclical and are carried out in real time. The drawing up of the movement schedule of vehicles also occurs in real time. In the section "Drawing up a traffic schedule of vehicles" the basic principles of constructing a vehicles traffic schedule are given and their usage is demonstrated with a specific example. The introduction in usage this intelligent city passenger transport system, built on the proposed principles, will allow to get technology of passenger transportation that able to adaptive changes of number autonomous transport units that are used in transportation, depending on the demand for transportation. Such approach allows both to fully and timely satisfy the needs of passengers, and to save the resources of the transport system, what is the main aim of each passenger transport system