Internet Routing Protocols as an Autonomous Control Approach for Transport Networks

To realise an autonomous control for transport networks it is attempted to transfer well known and approved routing protocols from data communication to transport problems. Here structural differences between data and transportation networks prevent a direct transfer of the protocols. In transportation networks not one but several diverse and particularly adapted protocols are needed, which have to cooperate in spite of different targets. In the following a cooperative routing concept for transport logistics called ‘Distributed Logistics Routing Protocol’ is introduced, developed within the Collaborative Research Centre 637 ‘Autonomous Cooperating Logistic Processes’ at the University of Bremen.