196 results about "Carpool" patented technology

Rendezvous tracking subsystem uses GPS-enabled cell phones communicating with an application server for tracking the whereabouts of carpool participants and for providing on-time status of participants en-route to designated rendezvous points. Safety subsystem can be used to verify safe arrival of participants at carpool destinations. Participants can configure safety subsystem by defining escalation rules and procedures to follow when safety critical events occur.

The invention provides a method and system for providing car-pooling assistance using a wireless communication system. The method includes steps for receiving a user carpool enrollment request, obtaining the positional information of the user's moving vehicle, storing the positional information as a route in a call center database and sending at least one available match based on the carpool enrollment request to the user.

The invention discloses a carpooling system and method for matching information through a route segmenting method. The carpooling system comprises a mobile passenger terminal, a mobile driver terminal, a website platform, a car hire managing and dispatching system and a communication module, wherein the mobile passenger terminal, the mobile driver terminal, the website platform and the car hire managing and dispatching system communicate with one another through the communication module. Based on a common computing and matching method, in order to achieve matching of same-direction carpool information to the maximum extent, a vehicle route is matched by adopting a full-route coordinate segmenting way to help a passenger to match the optimal route and the predicted arrival time of a vehicle going in the same direction. The carpooling system is applied to a mobile terminal product and an Internet platform, and has a greater same-direction carpooling matching range, more optimized matching accuracy and zero error rate, thereby directly improving the carpooling matching success rate; the carpooling system has the characteristics of energy conservation, low carbon and environment friendliness, simultaneously reduces the pressure of public transport, and relieves traffic congestion to a certain extent.

The invention provides a method and system for providing car-pooling assistance using a wireless communication system. The method includes steps for receiving a user carpool enrollment request, obtaining the positional information of the user's moving vehicle, storing the positional information as a route in a call center database and sending at least one available match based on the carpool enrollment request to the user.

A navigation system comprises a storage device which stores link data of each of links constituting roads on a map. As for a carpool link defined as a link allowing only a vehicle in which a plurality of persons are riding to pass through, the link data contains information indicative thereof. The navigation system searches for a recommended route from a departure place to a destination by use of the link data. If the links constituting the recommended route includes a carpool link, the navigation system receives an input of the number of person-on-board. The navigation system searches for a recommended route once again by use of the link data, from the departure place to the destination comprising the links passable with the number of person-on-board received by the receive step.

A method, integrated system and in-vehicle Active Poster for processing mobile touch transactions including carpooling transactions. The integration includes a near field contactless or swipe smart card or other portable identification device which may be standalone, affixed to, or part of a mobile or hand held portable wireless communication device, a touch sensitive Active Poster also with swipe or near field contactless communication capability and also incorporating or in communication with GPS or other vehicle location services capability for the vehicle, a car pool management or other service provider's system and application and a host computer with networking capability.

An onboard navigation apparatus provides travel guidance on a road including a plurality of roadways heading in the same direction. The road specifically includes a special roadway such as a carpool lane having no exits to other roads, an ordinary roadway having exits to the other roads and a predetermined traveling-path changing area provided as a sole area allowing a vehicle to change a traveling path thereof between the special roadway and the ordinary roadway. The apparatus determines a present position of a vehicle, determines whether the detected position is in the special roadway or in an ordinary roadway. The apparatus provides, in addition to normal travel guidance, information on the traveling-path changing area existing ahead of the vehicle on a display, when the detected position is in the special roadway.

A remote server receives traffic data from a plurality of probe vehicles traveling on roadways. The remote server stores the received traffic data in a regular lane database and / or a carpool lane database. The remote server differentiates the received traffic data for storage in the appropriate database based on the number of probe vehicles associated with each speed pattern observed within the received traffic data.

A navigation system comprises a storage device which stores link data of each of links constituting roads on a map. As for a carpool link defined as a link allowing only a vehicle in which a plurality of persons are riding to pass through, the link data contains information indicative thereof. The navigation system searches for a recommended route from a departure place to a destination by use of the link data. If the links constituting the recommended route includes a carpool link, the navigation system receives an input of the number of person-on-board. The navigation system searches for a recommended route once again by use of the link data, from the departure place to the destination comprising the links passable with the number of person-on-board received by the receive step.

The invention relates to an intelligent tourism service system based on a cloud platform and a mobile terminal. The intelligent tourism service system comprises the mobile terminal, an application APP and an interactive cloud platform system, core functions and data of the system are stored on the cloud platform, and a user can access the cloud platform data and interact with the platform through the mobile terminal and the application APP. Scenic spot introduction, positioning, synchronous voice explanation and peripheral information and other functions can be provided for tourists, and meanwhile, a social networking platform for finding companions, carpooling, sharing rooms, making friends can also be provided for the tourists.

Systems, methods, and computer program products match a candidate passenger with a driver for a trip toward a common direction. A candidate passenger for the trip is automatically identified based on the physical start-address and direction sent to the database via text messaging (Short Message Service) or by wireless email. The driver is provided a means of contacting or locating the identified candidate passenger.

A method and apparatus for a navigation system is designed to avoid traffic rule violation. The method includes the steps of: evaluating requirements prescribed by local carpool lane regulation for using a carpool lane of a road; determining a number of occupants of a vehicle; determining whether the number of occupants of the vehicle satisfies the requirements; detecting a current location of the vehicle as to which lane the vehicle is running; detecting a lane change action for the carpool lane indicating that the vehicle enters the carpool lane or about to enter the carpool lane; and generating a warning for notifying violation of carpool lane regulation when the lane change action for the carpool lane is detected and the number of occupants fails to satisfy the requirements.

A car pool software package is disclosed. The software suggests potential car pool partners by scanning a database of commuters, such as an employee database, as well as a facility database to determine arrival and departure times. An ordered list of potential car pool partners is then generated and forwarded to interested commuters. Pollution savings may be calculated and reported to an appropriate agency in exchange for credits to offset other pollution or trade on the open market.

The invention relates to a method which receives location information of a mobile terminal of a single user. One or more journeys are extracted from the location information of the single user. The corresponding journey data is stored in a journey database. From the journey data in the journey database, journey patterns for the single user are extracted. A journey pattern indicates at least the regularity of a particular journey in time, i.e. over a number of days. The journey patterns are stored in the pattern database. The journey patterns of the single user are matched with patterns of other users. If a match is found, at least one match based on the journey patterns is sent to the single user. These features enable the carpool service to find a match which takes into account the regularity across a period of days. By identifying the regularity, a better match can be made with users which travel the same route, as also the days on which the users travel are taken into account.

We have defined an automated detection system consisting of a combined visible and Short Wave Infra-Red (SWIR) camera that identifies vehicle identification number and the number of occupants in a given vehicle, as well as the speed of the automobile. This information is processed in conjunction with law enforcement rules to determine whether the particular vehicle driver is in violation to enable the law enforcement personnel to issue traffic violation ticket and mail it to the registered driver's address. Such an automated system could be placed at strategic locations along the stretch of the High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) or carpool lanes and interconnected with backend computing and decision support system to assist law enforcement personnel in identifying vehicle driver violating the HOV or carpool lane rules and in issuing violation tickets to the registered driver of the particular vehicle.

The invention discloses a carpool service providing method and a carpool server using the same. The method includes the following steps: generating a carpool population matrix according to a plurality of carpool requests received from a plurality of passengers and drivers; generating a first carpool matching result and a second carpool matching result according to the carpool population matrix; performing a routing procedure to each of the first and second segments; respectively comparing the segment fitness value of one of the second segments with the segment fitness value of the corresponding first segment and updating the second carpool matching result by replacing the one of the second segments with the corresponding first segment if the segment fitness value of the one of the second segments is worse than the segment fitness value of the corresponding first segment; updating the carpool population matrix according to the updated second carpool matching result.

The invention provides a more universal dynamic car sharing and matching method, which solves the problem of real-time matching of a passenger and an optimal driver meeting the conditions under two constraint conditions of car sharing time and car sharing cost of the passenger. The dynamic car sharing and matching method comprises the three steps of step 1, establishing a dynamic car sharing and matching model including time, cost and a skyline relation model; step 2, establishing a dynamic car sharing data structure including Driver Table, Matching Table, Grid index and the like; and step 3, carrying out dynamic car sharing and matching with core conception of guaranteeing high efficiency of matching through reducing or postponing calculation of a shortest path as possible; meanwhile, through setting a skyline constraint of the driver, the calculated amount of matching is further reduced, and in comparison with the other alternative driver, the matched driver is better in the aspect of time or cost.

The invention provides a carpooling taxi and a carpooling method thereof, which belong to the field of taxi carpooling. According to the carpooling taxi, a display screen is additionally arranged on the roof of the taxi and used for displaying the current position of the taxi, main places through which the taxi drives, a destination and the quantity of passengers in the taxi or the quantity of passengers who can still carpool in the taxi, and a passenger can freely select an appropriate taxi for carpooling in accordance with the information and personal situation. The carpooling method is flexible and accurate. According to the carpooling taxi and the carpooling method, the information of a driving route selected by a taxi driver is sent to a server of a taxi company, the taxi company can supervise whether the taxi driver drives in accordance with a preset route, and the taxi driver is prevented from violating regulations, for example, the driver deliberately selects a long route. In addition, a reasonable proportion for charging is selected in the process of carpooling in accordance with the driving distance and the on-off order of the passengers, the passengers save fares, and the taxi driver earns more fares.

The invention specifically designs a taxi carpooling mechanism and an achieving method aiming at a transportation hub. The method comprises the steps as follows: a carpooling process is divided into 'carpooling initiation' and 'rapid joining' according to different requirements of arrival passengers on time and price; the passengers can put forward and create an application of a carpooling path through the 'carpooling initiation', examine a recommended carpooling path, and carpool with others, so as to obtain the maximal benefits in cost; the passengers can also select the 'rapid joining', and match with the passengers who create the carpooling path, so as to reach the carpooling intention; and the main bases of carpooling matching and path recommending of the passengers are road cost difference, road time difference and waiting time, so that carpooling parties obtain the maximal overall benefits in time and cost. Aiming at the carpooling flow, the invention further provides a method for dividing a taxi waiting area in the transportation hub into a 'queue area' and a 'carpooling area', so that the carpooling efficiency can be effectively improved; and disputes of the passengers are avoided. The overall mechanism and flow are applied to carpooling in the transportation hub, so that the operation efficiency of the transportation hub is improved; the passengers can rapidly reach the destinations conveniently; and seamless connection of a plurality of urban traffic modes is achieved.

The invention discloses a method and system for achieving taxi sharing. The method comprises the steps that communication connection between a server and a handheld terminal is built; user information reported by the handheld terminal is received by the server, matched user information is selected by the server to form taxi sharing information according to the multiple pieces of user information received by the server, and a corresponding taxi is selected according to the taxi sharing information; a user contact way in the taxi sharing information is sent to a car-mounted terminal of the corresponding taxi by the server, or a contact way of the taxi is sent to a handheld terminal of a user to ensure that the connection of the user and the taxi is built and taxi sharing the taxi and the user reach an agreement. According to the method and system for achieving taxi sharing, connection does not need building before the user shares the taxi with others, the user builds a corresponding taxi sharing agreement only when the information of use taxi taking requirements is matched, and therefore the probability of reaching a taxi sharing agreement among users can be obviously increased, taxi sharing steps and the consumed time in the taxi sharing process are reduced and the purpose of improving using convenience for the users can be achieved.

An onboard navigation apparatus provides travel guidance on a road including a plurality of roadways heading in the same direction. The road specifically includes a special roadway such as a carpool lane having no exits to other roads, an ordinary roadway having exits to the other roads and a predetermined traveling-path changing area provided as a sole area allowing a vehicle to change a traveling path thereof between the special roadway and the ordinary roadway. The apparatus determines a present position of a vehicle, determines whether the detected position is in the special roadway or in an ordinary roadway. The apparatus provides, in addition to normal travel guidance, information on the traveling-path changing area existing ahead of the vehicle on a display, when the detected position is in the special roadway.

A method and an apparatus for confirming that two or more individuals' participation in a carpool where acceleration datum is collected from the individuals' associated devices. The acceleration datum of the devices is compared to determine that a first individual that is associated with the first device and at least a second individual that is associated with a second device traveled together in one single vehicle for a period of time to satisfy a carpool requirement. At least one of the individuals receives a benefit or incentive of the carpool.

A new algorithm is introduced to compare different transportation routes. Using the formula a special indicator I is calculated online. For the purpose of the Invention I may fluctuate from 0 to 1. If it is zero the two routes are fully matched, they are same routes. If I>1 there is no match at all. The smaller is I the better is the match. Based on this algorithm a Social Networking website is created connecting people on the move with different services providers and between themselves.By communicating with service providers customers may find the most efficient match for their next ride or move, or freight and save substantial money. On the other side Providers can drastically reduce the amount of empty trips and make additional money too.The Network may also be used to create and develop carpools and vanpools. The ultimate goal of the Invention and of this Network for Movers is to reduce Traffic and Pollution around the World.

The invention relates to a taxi sharing system and a taxi sharing method utilizing the taxi sharing system. The taxi sharing system comprises a plurality of taxi terminals, an information server and a plurality of passenger mobile terminals, wherein each taxi terminal comprises a first control module, a register and login module connected with the first control module, a taxi information releasing module and the like, the information server comprises a second control module, a user verification module connected with the second control module, a taxi information receiving module and the like, each passenger mobile terminal comprises a third control module, an ID serial number collecting module connected with the third control module, a coordinate position collection module and the like, and the modules are in wireless communication. The invention further provides the taxi sharing method utilizing the taxi sharing system. According to the taxi sharing system and the taxi sharing method, passengers and taxi drivers do not need to make phone calls to make contact with each other, the privacy of phone numbers of the passengers and the taxi drivers is protected, and the taxi sharing system is simple in program and convenient to operate and has the advantages of real-time performance, timeliness and rapidness.

The invention discloses a car-pooling auxiliary system and a car-pooling method. The car-pooling method comprises the following steps: a) navigation routes are respectively set on a vehicle mobile terminal and a passenger mobile phone terminal and sent to a server; b) the sever matches the navigation routes sent by the vehicle mobile terminal and the passenger mobile phone terminal and sends matching results and passenger information to the vehicle mobile terminal; c) if the vehicle mobile terminal determines to carpool, the server sends the matching results and the passenger information to the passenger mobile phone terminal; d) if the passenger mobile phone terminal determines to agree to carpool, carpooling is determined to be successful. According to the car-pooling auxiliary system and the car-pooling method disclosed by the invention, the navigation routes sent by the vehicle mobile terminal and the passenger mobile phone terminal are matched by the server, and the matching results are successively sent to the vehicle mobile terminal and the passenger mobile phone terminal to be respectively determined; therefore, the matching results are accurate and quick, the effects of convenience and timeliness are realized, and the carpooling efficiency and safety are improved.

The invention provides a taxi pooling method when starting from the same place. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining starting point information, terminal point information and queuing sequence number information of a plurality of passengers within a preset range to generate a plurality of taxi-taking paths; and if N taxi-taking paths of the plurality of taxi-taking paths are overlapped to form the same taxi-taking path and the queuing sequence number information of the passengers is within the preset range, sending taxi pooling reminding information, wherein the N is larger than 1. The method is simple to operate, can solve the problem of large sum of money and much time consumed after car pooling due to large possible destination difference, and can also enable taxis resources to be allocated better on the basis of maintaining the queuing site order, so that the taxis can serve more people with the shortest driving path. Meanwhile, the invention also provides a taxi pooling system and a taxi pooling server when starting from the same place.

System for optimal matching of ride sharing requests. A trip request manager receives trip requests from patrons and a shareability network is established. The system checks to see whether certain parameters related to ride-sharing delays are less than or equal to other parameters to decide whether trips are shareable.

The invention provides a charging method used in taxi sharing. The charging method includes acquiring start information and terminal information of a first passenger to generate a first driving path; acquiring start information and terminal information of a second passenger to generate a second driving path; if the driving paths coincide in a section, calculating fees of coinciding section of the first driving path and the second driving path and apportioning the fees to the first passenger and the second passenger according to the preset proportion. The charging method is easy to operate, the problem that taxi sharing spends too much money and time due to long distance between destinations is solved, the taxi resources are scheduled effectively, charges calculation is clear for the passengers after sharing the taxi, charges negotiation is simplified for the passengers, and cost of passengers is lowered. The invention further provides a charging system and server used in the taxi sharing.

A carpool fare organizer is useful when there is at least one passenger and comprises a distance recording unit, a passenger calculating unit, a fare calculating module and at least one display device. The distance recording unit records a get-in distance, a get-out distance and an accumulated distance of each passenger. The passenger calculating unit calculates a number of passengers. The fare calculating module calculates an original fare, an accumulated discount and an economical fare. A method for generating carpool fares comprises steps of recording a get-in distance, a get-out distance and an accumulated distance of each passenger and a number of passengers, and calculating an economical fare with the get-in distance, the get-out distance, the accumulated distance and the number of passengers.

An embodiment of the application discloses a method for transmitting carpool information. The method includes the following steps: receiving a first request message sent by a client of a first user, and determining identifications of candidate second users according to first address information of the first user and second address information of an associated user in a double association relationship of the first user; sending a first notification message to all or partial candidate second users; receiving a first reply message returned by third users of the all or partial second users; and sending identifications of the third users returning the first reply message to the client of the first user or sending the screened identifications of the third users returning the first reply message to the client of the first user. According to the invention, the preprocessing of address information of cooperative users is realized, and directive sending of the carpool information is realized, so that the carpool efficiency is improved. The application also discloses a server embodiment and system embodiment corresponding to the method embodiment and capable of realizing the method for transmitting carpool information.