INFORMED VERSUS NON-INFORMED TAXI DRIVERS: AGENT-BASED 1 SIMULATION FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSING THEIR PERFORMANCE 2 3 Josep Maria Salanova Grau 4 Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport 5 6 th km Charilaou-Thermi Rd., 57001, Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece 6 Tel: +302310498433 Fax: +302310498268; e-mail: jose@certh.gr 7 8 Luis Moreira-Matias 9 NEC Laboratories Europe 10 Kurfürsten-Anlage 36, D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany 11 Tel: +49 6221 4342 261 Fax: +49 6221 4342 155; e-mail: luis.moreira.matias@gmail.com 12 13 Amal Saadallah 14 Informatik LS VIII & The collaborative Research Center SFB 876, TU Dortmund 15 D-44227, Dortmund, Germany 16 Tel: +49 (0)231 755-6490 Fax: +49 (0)231 755-5105; e-mail: amal.saadallah@cs.tu- 17 dortmund.de 18 19 Panagiotis Tzenos 20 Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport 21 6 th km Charilaou-Thermi Rd., 57001, Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece 22 Tel: +302310498436 Fax: +302310498269; e-mail: ptzenos@certh.gr 23 24 Georgia Aifadopoulou 25 Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Hellenic Institute of Transport 26 6 th km Charilaou-Thermi Rd., 57001, Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece 27 Tel: +302310498457 Fax: +302310498268; e-mail: gea@certh.gr 28 29 Emmanouil Chaniotakis 30 Technical University of Munich, Chair of Transportation Systems Engineering 31 Arcisstraße 21, Munich, Germany 32 Tel: +49 89 28910461; e-mail: m.chaniotakis@tum.de 33 34 Miquel Angel Estrada Romeu 35 Center for Innovation in Transport (CENIT), Barcelona Tech - Technical University of Catalonia 36 (UPC), Barcelona, Spain 37 Tel: +34934137667 Fax: +34934137675 e-mail: miquel.estrada@upc.edu 38 39 Word count: 5,644 words text + 7 tables/figures x 250 words (each) = 7,394 words 40 41 42 43 Submission date: August 1 st , 2017 44 TRB 2018 Annual Meeting Paper revised from original submittal.