California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology

This paper develops a data synthesis methodology in PLANiTS (Planning and Analysis Integration for Intelligent Transportation systems) using case- based reasoning. The reasoner contains mechanisms for matching, ranking and analyzing past cases in relation to current cases. The current cases consist of transportation improvement actions, performance measures and environments defined in terms of spatial, temporal and user dimensions. PLANiTS users can apply increasing levels of stringency to match cases. The authors also discuss issues related to computer implementation and the limitations of case-based reasoning.