Behaviour-based Multi-Agent Simulation of the CEP-market in urban areas for evaluating transport and logistics strategies and measures

• Applicants: Professor Dr.-Ing. Uwe Clausen; Professor Dr. Gernot Liedtke
• Subject Area: Traffic and Transport Systems, Intelligent and Automated Traffic ; City Planning, Spatial Planning, Transportation and Infrastructure Planning, Landscape Planning
• Term: from 2014 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 254938222

Transports of courier, express and parcel services (CEP-services) account for a high proportion of the total urban commodity transport. Due to growing e-commerce and a trend towards smaller shipments, CEP-services are increasingly relevant in cities. In the proposed research project, a multi agent model based on optimization will be developed to simulate the CEP-transports in urban areas in interaction with the overall traffic system. It supports decision making processes and assessment in transport planning, transport policy and logistics. In a scenario analysis it is demonstrated how transport policy and logistics measures could be aligned in an integrative fashion. The agglomeration region of Berlin as a political and cultural centre with prospering tertiary sector will be selected as the study area.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants