Description of architecture and rules of integrated operation dispatch system for passenger dedicated line

In order to improve the intelligence of the integrated operation dispatch system for passenger dedicated line, using agent technology, the architecture of multi-agent system (MAS) was presented by regarding the process of transportation dispatch as the negotiating process among agents. Train traffic control subsystem, motor train unit dispatch subsystem, the power supply subsystem of electric traction and railway station were abstracted into agents respectively, and all these agents constituted an agent society, in which social rules were given. Based on MAS architecture, the structure of company's train traffic control agent was given, which was 2-way-4-layer vertical architecture, railway station agent architecture was given, which was reactive one, and their running principles were desicribed. Applied result shows that, for agent, the time of adjusting operation plans on train is less than 10 s, the time of choosing dispatch preplans is less than 5 s, so MAS architecture is feasible and has high intelligence under the control of the rules.