Modelling Road Traffic Incident Management Problems for Automated Planning

This paper is concerned with the application of automated planning in assisting
the decision making and logistics in the area of Road Traffic Incidents. The characteristics of
this area are that goals must be posed and plans must be output in real time. The domain
is complex, with road topology, information distribution, traffic
ows, driver behaviour, and
highway management controls all potential factors. The representation and encoding of such
domain knowledge, of possible actions and plans, and of potential tasks for the road traffic
accident scenario is thus a crucial but difficult issue. The goal of this paper is to explore
the potential of automated planning with hierarchical object-centred domain models in the
application of Road Traffic Incident Management(RTIM).