For the intensively studied vehicle routing problem (VRP), two real-life restrictions have received only minor attention in the VRP-literature: traffic congestion and driving hours regulations. Traffic congestion causes late arrivals at customers and long travel times resulting in large transport costs. To account for traffic congestion, time-dependent travel times should be considered when con...

Both human and multi-agent societies are prone to best function with the inclusion of regulations. Human societies have developed jurisprudence as the theory and philosophy of law. Within it, utilitarianism has the view that laws should be crafted so as to produce the best consequences. Following this same objective, we propose an approach to enhance a multi-agent system with a regulatory autho...

For over fifteen years, the subject of urban logistics has preoccupied many, including public decision-makers. This paper seeks to identify the limits beyond which regulations restricting vehicle access to limited traffic zones may be sanctioned for abuse of power. Here, we present the case of Vicenza (Italy), which has implemented very restrictive regulations. Based on this case study, certain...

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Bridge code calibration and assessment of existing bridges require an accurate knowledge of traffic load patterns. WIM data are useful for these applications, either to account for the current traffic loads or to assess the potential impact of future loads. Traffic load effects were calculated on two composite bridges, using WIM data of a French motorway, and the effect of an increase of the gr...

This paper presents norms and ontologies’ definition for actions performed by agents. This approach defines that regulations have a semantic support provided by an ontology, specially designed and built for it. This ontology is a generic one and need to be extended for specific domains. An ontology for the urban traffic domain was extended and instantiated in an urban traffic simulator system, ...

Earlier studies on the subject of subjective judgment of traffic conflicts showed that untrained subjects can reliably judge the dangerousness of filmed traffic conflicts. It was concluded that these judgements were based on a concept of dangerousness. In line with these findings two experiments were conducted. Experiment 1 tested the hypothesis that traffic experts (traffic engineers trained t...

The acoustic situation for the European housing stock depends on several factors, including national acoustic regulations during design and actual construction solutions applied. Regulations and constructions vary across Europe, both now and in the past, thus explaining a diversified situation in Europe. Acoustic regulations for housing exist in most European countries, valid for new housing. H...