MAS Simulation of a “Bush Taxi” Transportation Service : Summary of a project carried out during the MAPS training course

2010

The human and social sciences have always sought to improve their tools and resources in order to spread their knowledge. The most recent of these tools, Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), also known as Agent-Based Models (ABM), is a remarkable means of formalization and visualization of spatial processes. Multi-Agent Systems have already proved to be extremely useful modeling tools in various disciplines such as epidemiology, biology, and ecology, but also economics and geography (Amblard F. 2006). Today's research and methods aiming to deal with spatial problems are more and more treated within the paradigm and theories of complex systems. Indeed, one of the advantages of multi-agent systems, in …