Cognitive Wayfinding Agents in Public Transportation Networks
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چکیده
Wayfinding Wayfinding is a complex human activity involving moving along while evaluating alternatives and making decisions. It is defined as a spatial problem solving process with the three sub-processes decision-making, decision execution, and information processing. In our research we focus on the information processing aspect of wayfinding. Our main scientific goal is a cognitively plausible model for the simulation of multi-modal wayfinding in urban environments using cognitive agents. The agents will travel from a given start to a specific destination using different transportation modes and adjusting to the constraints given by traffic networks and the spaces involved. The simulation can serve as basis for a mobile navigation service or it can be used in traffic microsimulations.
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