arXiv:2608.10207cs.AI2026-08

用语义嵌入提升公交调度,减少拥挤和乘客等待。

Mitigating Bus Bunching with Reinforcement Learning Enhanced by Semantic Stop Embedding

论文配图:Mitigating Bus Bunching with Reinforcement Learning Enhanced by Semantic Stop Embedding
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  • 用大模型生成站点语义嵌入,替代传统停靠点标识符。
  • 相比最优基线,班次不均减少32.0%,乘客等待降24.0%。
  • 支持跨线路策略迁移,适合城市公交系统优化研究者。

公交拥挤会降低高频公交服务的规律性并增加乘客等待时间。现有基于强化学习的滞留控制方法主要依赖瞬时运行变量或路线特定的停靠点标识符,难以捕捉各站点的功能与运行背景,限制了策略在不同路线间的复用。本文提出一种基于大模型的语义站点表示方法,用于事件驱动的公交滞留控制。利用离线大模型将站点的物理属性、周边活动环境及历史运行特征等异构信息转化为固定语义嵌入,并集成至深度Q-learning控制器中,无需实时调用大模型。在两个公交路线的真实数据校准的随机模拟中进行实验,结果表明:相较于最佳校准的Daganzo基线,该语义控制器使班次间隔波动降低32.0%,拥挤事件减少69.2%,乘客等待时间缩短24.0%。仅使用路线特定停靠点标识符无法改善仅依赖间距的控制器性能,而引入语义站点信息则显著提升班次规律性、等待时间和滞留努力的综合表现,实现更优控制权衡。跨路线实验进一步显示,零样本迁移效果有限,但冷启动微调可加速初期学习并提升迁移策略性能;而冷启动训练最终达到最佳效果。研究说明,语义状态表示可补充传统运行状态,支持适应性策略复用,适用于相关公交线路的优化。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Bus bunching degrades service regularity and increases passenger waiting in high-frequency transit. Existing reinforcement-learning-based holding controllers primarily rely on instantaneous operational variables or route-specific stop identifiers, which provide limited information about the functional and operational context of individual stops and constrain policy reuse across routes. This study introduces an LLM-assisted semantic stop representation for event-driven bus holding control. An LLM is used offline to transform heterogeneous stop information, including physical attributes, surrounding activity context, and historical operational characteristics, into fixed semantic embeddings that are incorporated into a deep Q-learning controller without requiring real-time LLM inference. Experiments are conducted in stochastic simulations calibrated with observed data from two bus routes. Compared with the best calibrated Daganzo baseline, the semantic controller reduces headway variability, bunching events, and passenger waiting time by 32.0%, 69.2%, and 24.0%, respectively. A route-specific stop identifier does not improve the spacing-only controller, whereas semantic stop information improves headway regularity, waiting time, and holding effort, providing a more favorable overall trade-off across control objectives. Cross-route experiments further show that zero-shot transfer provides limited immediate generalization, while warm-start fine-tuning accelerates early-stage learning and improves transferred policies; cold-start training nevertheless achieves the best final performance. These findings suggest that semantic state representations can complement conventional operational states and support adaptation-based policy reuse across related transit routes.

公交调度强化学习语义嵌入

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