GIS-BASED ROUTE FINDING USING ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION AND URBAN TRAFFIC DATA FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES

Cooperative Ant Colony Optimization in Traffic Route Calculations

Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithms tend to be isolated processes. When applying ACO principles to traffic route calculations, ants exploring the traffic network on behalf of a vehicle typically only perceive and apply pheromones related to that vehicle. Between ants exploring on behalf of different vehicles little cooperation exists. While such cooperation could improve the performance of...

Ant Colony Route Optimization for Municipal Services

In the present paper the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) Algorithm is introduced for best routing identification applied in urban solid waste collection. The proposed solid waste management system is based on a geo-referenced Spatial Database supported by a Geographic Information System (GIS). The GIS takes account of all the required parameters for solid waste collection. These parameters involv...

Finding Numerical Solutions of Diophantine Equations using Ant Colony Optimization

The paper attempts to find numerical solutions of Diophantine equations, a challenging problem as there are no general methods to find solutions of such equations. It uses the metaphor of foraging habits of real ants. The ant colony optimization based procedure starts with randomly assigned locations to a fixed number of artificial ants. Depending upon the quality of these positions, ants depos...

Traffic Signal Control with Ant Colony Optimization

Update Vehicle Traffic Routing Using Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm

In this paper, the authors want to implement the solution of combinatorial problem, based on the heuristic behavior of ant. This paper focuses on a highly developed solution procedure using ACO algorithm. This helps to solve routing problems easily. It also reflects the method considering flow, distance, cost, and emergency etc. Here, a new algorithm named UVTR (Update Vehicle Traffic Routing) ...