Description
The COOD Matrix Project - Optimized Generation of Commercial Offer in Transport Systems based on Origin-Destination Matrix – aims at designing and developing a software planning tool for automatic and optimum generation of the commercial offer of multi-modal transport systems. It will be based on origin destination matrixes of passenger demand. In the optimization process it will consider constraints and costs derive from any legal/business/operation rules and preferences, as well as transport network restrictions. By commercial offer is understood the planning of the whole time-mesh and trips’ itineraries to be performed in the network. Focusing the research on artificial intelligence algorithms, heuristics definition and combinatorial optimization, the experienced members of the project team will create an innovative tool that fully complements and integrates within other transport planning applications, and consequently brings substantial efficiency increase to transport systems.
Summary of project results
The existing planning solutions are inefficient or unusable since they don't take into account any legal, business and operation rules, any passengers’ preferences nor transport network restrictions. The main aim of the COODMatrix project was to design and develop a software (SW) planning tool to provide an automatic and optimum commercial offer for multi-modal transport systems based on origin-destination matrices (OD matrices) derived on passengers demand. With the prototype, the goal was reached. The fact of adopting a micro-simulation method of the operation transit network provides with planning solutions that avoid the problems found in other generic tools where the solutions have feasibility problem and lack of robustness against changes To sustain the results, the following step would be to re-implement, following industrial processes, the techniques found during the execution of this prototype in our commercial applications. So, transport sector would take advantage of it.
Summary of bilateral results