446 results about "Mode of transport" patented technology

A family center system and method is provided that allows receiving from a registered family member a family message intended for other registered family members and determines, based on a set of rules, to which of other registered family members to push the family message, mode of transport by which to push the family message, and the schedule according to which to push the family message. A technique involving a tile is provided that allows displaying a unified view of information onto a plurality of registered devices, regardless of device platform and / or communications network. The system and method provides a variety of services to registered family members and allows third party application plug-in for offering third party services. The system and method receives a SMS message and stores such message as a family message for subsequent access or family message treatment.

A method and system for targeting content (e.g., a service or an advertisement) according to location-based information derived from a mobile wireless transceiver device. Position information as a function of time is used to calculate a rate of travel and a direction of travel. This information can be used to identify a likely mode of transportation. Geographical information can be used to further refine the mode of transportation. Thus, in addition to the position of the wireless transceiver devices, factors such as the rate of travel, the direction of travel and the likely mode of transportation are also considered to more precisely identify the appropriate service. Moreover, a potential destination can be predicted, allowing further refinement of the targeted service.

Conventional means of transporting goods, for example, in a warehouse tend to be expensive due to costs from human labor and from employing automation such as conveyors. Shuttles that are used to automatically transport goods provide a means of transporting goods that is less expensive, more efficient, and allows more rapid transportation. Shuttles, systems employing the shuttles, and methods of transporting goods using these shuttles, is disclosed.

A method and system for finding multimodal transit route solutions with a computer software program is described that finds the most efficient transit routes based on user preferred modes of transport. The route finding system has four layers that include a presentation layer, an application layer, a component layer and a database layer. The system input includes a start address, a destination address and preferred mode of transport to find the most efficient transit routes. The transport mode includes public transport, private transport and combination of public and private transports. The system displays the detailed mapped route directions for the user input. The system also includes tools for location based address finder and local guidance.

One embodiment provides a method, that may be implemented on a system, for obtaining a starting point and a destination point for a traveler; identifying multiple options of transportation modes to travel from the starting point to the destination point, and identifying a costs and travel time associated respectively with each transportation mode to travel from a departure terminal to an arrival terminal; identifying respectively for each transportation mode, a costs and travel time associated with local transportation from the starting point to a departure terminal, and identifying a costs and travel time associated with local transportation from an arrival terminal to the destination point; presenting to the traveler for selection, the multiple options of transportation modes to travel from the starting point to the destination point, including costs and travel time associated respectively with each option of transportation mode, including local transportation from the starting point to the departure terminal, from the departure terminal to the arrival terminal, and local transportation from the arrival terminal to the destination point; receiving a selection of a transportation mode and reserving the transportation associated with the respective transportation mode.

A system to detect the transit of vehicles having license plates includes at least one video camera to detect license plates capable of framing the plates of said vehicles and, preferably, at least one video camera to detect vehicles capable of framing a zone of transit of said vehicles having license plates. A series of processing operations is capable, starting from the video signals generated by the video camera to detect license plates, of detecting the presence of a vehicle in transit and, starting from the video signals generated by the video camera to detect vehicles, of detecting the position and three-dimensional shape of vehicles in transit in said zone. A supervisor module aggregates the results of these processing operations to generate records of information each identifying the modality of transit in said zone of a vehicle identified by a given license plate that has been recognized.

A dialysis machine is provided comprising a non-volatile memory component into which patient data is stored. The patient data includes patient identification as well as prescribed patient treatment parameters. When data for a particular patient is entered by an operator into the non-volatile memory, the machine can be shut down and transported to the patient. The machine is then restarted, and performs a series of checks to ensure that all functions are ready to commence treatment. Patient treatment can then be achieved at a location remote from where the machine was first set up.

Provided is an agile, adaptive, globally deployable online network-centric autonomic supply chain management system that when triggered by a predictive / diagnostic condition management system, without user-maintainer intervention, autonomously authorizes a complete requisitioning cycle of supply chain assets to warfighters with unprecedented criticality of speed. A requisitioning cycle is comprised of: (1) asset issue authorization to a vehicle / requester (2) retrograde [return] of repairable to depot and (3) replenishment [resupply] of drawn inventory. It also autonomically provides global total asset visibility of the asset(s) of interest and a tempo surge-priority ranking with a calm-down functions. The system operates in either default autonomic mode or a user activated semi-autonomic mode. In either mode of operation a requisition cycle is accomplished autonomically by selection of the most affordable transportation that ensures delivery of an asset to a user in accordance with contractually specified time-definite delivery standards. The system's material delivery performance effectiveness percentage rate is archived for billing purposes and monitoring system performance metrics. The system almost eliminates SCM administration personpower requirements. It accelerates the entire logistics supply pipeline, resulting in:—higher annual inventory turn-rates thus permitting inventory levels to be reduced and smaller wartime pack up kits thereby lowering lifetime total operating costs. Smaller pack up kits reduces the logistics footprint and thus the number of cargo aircraft required to deploy a unit.

A volumetric module that can have all of its exterior claddings, windows, doors, interior finishes, cabinetry, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, and roofing installed and completed in the factory minimizing work to be completed in the field, and a method to protect the fully finished building module during transport with a series of demountable transport panels. The finished and protected building module is transported to a site utilizing the intermodal shipping network or by different modes of shipping and transportation. At the building site, the finished building module is placed on a foundation or other form of support, the transport panels are removed from the module revealing a fully finished building module suitable for use as a habitable building both in it singular use as well as the creation of a larger habitable building by joining finished building modules at the building site.

A transportation planner and route calculator for alternative travel methods that recommends alternative modes of transport relating to the preferences of the user. Recommendations draw upon preferences generated from the user's profile which is made up of inserted information from the user, travel historical log, a settings application and a method of auto adjusting the user's profile. A calculator unit retrieves one or more generated attributes of the user and obtains various related information such as available public transport, weather forecasts, historical travel log, to calculate travel options that best suit the users needs. The application constantly updates the users profile based on the users travel patterns and preferences, as the application learns more about the user the better the application becomes at recommending travel routes that suite the user's requirements.

The invention discloses a public transit network planning method based on multiple levels and multiple modes. The public transit network planning method comprises the following steps that basic data are collected, communication and transportation modes are determined according to the city size, and influence factors needed by public transit network planning are analyzed; a public transit network planning model is built, and relevant parameters are set; the public transit network planning model is solved; a planning result is output. The public transit network planning method can better adapt to passenger flow features and setting features of different public transit networks, thereby being better in effect; the public transit network planning method is superior to existing methods on the evaluation index aspects of the nonstop passenger flow volume, the passenger demand ratio, the total travel time and the like.

A system and method for a carbon calculator including carbon offset determination is described. Distance and modes of transport may be used to determine carbon emissions and carbon offsets to compensate for the carbon emissions. The calculator may also provide trade-off comparisons between alternate modes of transportation such as air, truck, train, boat, and the like. The distance determination may involve actual mileage traversed in a shipment or may be calculated using GPS, for example.

A system and method for optimizing order fulfillment by considering multiple supply modes in one aspect, plans supply of inventory by forecasting demand, estimating accuracy of said forecasted demand, and establishing reorder point policy based at least on said accuracy of said forecasted demand, a plurality of supply transportation modes, cost of carbon emissions and limit on carbon emission credits. Current inventory position is monitored and if the current inventory position is below the reorder point policy, orders are placed according to a selected shipping method. The selected shipping method may be based at least on customer order priority, transportation budget, and carbon emission limit.

The present invention provides methods and systems of identifying suppliers of applicable modes of transport that meet specified business requirements, providing a means to compare and evaluate these suppliers. Some forms of the invention provide computer-based methods for assisting a logistics decision of a potential customer, the method comprising the steps of: receiving at least one logistics related requirement from the potential customer, calculating at least one suitable logistics option from a plurality of supplier-provided logistic options, and providing an output of at least one logistics option in a form readable by the potential customer. Logistics-related requirements include a preferred or required origin point, a preferred or required destination point, a preferred or required mode of transport, a preferred or required travel time, a preferred or required delivery date, a preferred or required environmental impact caused by the logistic, a preferred or required cost, a preferred or required payment method or term, a preferred or required accreditation of a supplier, or a preferred or required level of operational performance of a supplier.

A system and method for managing the electrical control system of a header flotation and lift system of an agricultural harvesting machine, particularly one using only once fluid cylinder in connection with each respective side of the header, which system and method, in addition to executing header raise and lower commands, provides several automatically executable operating modes for the flotation and lift system, including a wake-up mode; a normal mode, which can include float; a charge accumulator mode; a transport mode; and a header remove mode, and the ability to seamlessly and easily transition between the modes.

A method and system for analyzing commuting routes. Several items of information are received, including an identifier associated with an individual, an employment location for the individual, a mode of transportation used by the individual to travel to the employment location, and a segment associated with the mode of transportation. The identifier, the employment location, the mode of transportation and the segment are associated. The association is stored as route information. One or more of home location information for the individual, building access data for the individual, indicative information for the individual, and contact information for the individual are accessed. The route information is analyzed in combination with one or more of the home location information, the building access data, the indicative information, and the contact information to determine an impact on the individual of an incident effecting one or more of the employment location, the mode of transportation, and the segment.

A system and method for optimizing order fulfillment by considering multiple supply modes in one aspect, plans supply of inventory by forecasting demand, estimating accuracy of said forecasted demand, and establishing reorder point policy based at least on said accuracy of said forecasted demand and a plurality of supply transportation modes. Current inventory position is monitored and if the current inventory position is below the reorder point policy, orders are placed according to a selected shipping method. The selected shipping method may be based at least on customer order priority and transportation budget.

The invention is a vehicle for personal transportation with the ability to convert between two alternate modes of transport, as an automobile for transportation on roads and as a personal aircraft for travel between municipal airports, utilizing retractable telescoping wings and a foldable frame.

A system and methods for providing comprehensive travel package to attend an event out of a series of scheduled events are disclosed. The system comprises a server engine having means for gathering all sorts of online travel related information from a plurality of specialized websites. It includes means for storing the gathered travel information. A travel time durations and costs calculator operates from the gathered travel information in order to dynamically build the comprehensive travel packages. Sets of comprehensive travel packages are then delivered to a plurality of client websites in response to the submission by their end-users of queries to attend events out of series of scheduled events. End-user queries include home locations along with further preferences that are used to dynamically build the corresponding set of comprehensive travel packages. The most appropriate event date and location is thus selected allowing to deliver the best travel package for the specified end-user home location. Preferences include minimizing overall trip elapsed times, minimizing overall trip costs and excluding some transportation means. The invention also applies to the organization of professional meetings and for socializing websites to restrict selection of people to meet only to those fitting in a cost or time metric.The invention allows delivering, to end-users of websites proposing series of events or organizing meetings, the best comprehensive, i.e., home to home, travel packages for each one of the proposed events or meetings so that they are aware of all opportunities and travel consequences (overall durations and costs, overnight stays etc.) before they book a trip.

The present invention relates to a method for detaching and conveying and wholly group-welding the 400m<3> high-strength spherical tank, and the method comprises the following procedures: separating the spherical tank body with the ladder platform; before cutting numbering according to the piece part of the spherical tank, and preheating in 500mm from the cutting starting point of the welding line; the preheating temperature is 100 DEG C; executing manual cutting for 200mm to the welding line starting point to be cut; adopting the semiautomatic welding cutter to the part to be cut on the spherical tank; manually tracking the cutting for examining; conveying to the destination with two conveying modes of vehicle conveying and water conveying; assembling and welding the detached spherical tank according to the number, firstly the preheating before the welding is executed, and then the whole heat treatment after welding is executed; lastly executing whole acoustic emission detection to the spherical tank which has been executed with conveying and group-welding. The invention successfully conveys 400m<3> high-strength spherical tank to the destination, settles the difficulty caused in the wholly conveying of the large-scale spherical tank and the technical problem in group-welding and installing after detaching, and the service lifetime of the spherical tank is prolonged.

The invention relates to a 1600kV / 50mA outdoor mobile direct current voltage generator which comprises a direct current voltage generator body, a charging voltage regulation device and a computer measuring and controlling system; the direct current voltage generator body adopts a five-stage voltage doubling rectifying circuit with symmetrical single sides, the complete set of the test units adopts a tower type combined structure and a container transportation method as well as the modular design. A direct-current voltage generator body module, the charging voltage regulation device, a computer measuring and controlling system operating platform are respectively provided with hoisting devices, and the hoisting devices can be moved on a transport vehicle; the invention utilizes the 50Hz power frequency power supply as the rectifier source to obtain the direct-current voltage, the quality of the direct-current power supply is good, the capacity is large, and the demands of experimental investigation of the extra-high voltage direct current transmission project can be met; and due to the adoption of the modular design, the rapid assembly and disassembly can be realized on site, and the polarity can be changed according to the complete set of the test units with required testing voltage.

The invention discloses a double-deck container flat car, which comprises a car coupler buffer device, a semi-trailer bearing seat, a car body, a bogie, a braking device and a container fixing and locking mechanism, wherein the car body comprises a large underframe and a traction device; the cross section and the vertical section of the large underframe are of an all-steel welding concave structure, and an upper port of the concave structure forms a well-mouth shaped structure of the large underframe; the large underframe comprises side walls and a concave bottom; underframe bearing seats are symmetrically arranged in the middle and at two ends of the large underframe, and the bearing seats are connected with the side walls and the concave bottom. The concave bottom well type structure furthest utilizes line limits and designs a car bottom bearing surface to an allowable minimum value; the bottom of the whole car, the traction device and an upside beam form the concave bottom structure; the container fixing and locking mechanism and corresponding observation ports can carry double-deck multi-sized containers conveniently and safely; and the flat car has light self weight and large loading and can simultaneously meet the transportation mode of multi-size containers and greatly enhance the capacity of railway transportation in multimodal transportation.

A method for scheduling manufacture of an order in a factory which includes planning a time for manufacturing an order so as to have the manufacture of the order complete during a desired shipping window and determining the desired shipping window so as to allow the order to be shipped via a lower cost shipping method while arriving at a destination. A method manufacturing an order in a factory which includes synchronizing production of the order with a desired routing schedule and determining the desired routing schedule so as to allow the order to be routed via lower cost shipping method while arriving at a destination.

A bicycle for providing stair-stepping exercise motion, recreation, and mode of transport comprising a frame that includes a unique triangular rear portion, a pair of wheels, one for the front, one for the back, a chain driven, teardrop-shaped propulsion system, left and right pedals having multiple positions between a horizontal and angular vertical upon which the operator rides, adjustable handle bars for steering, and a safety housing for covering the propulsion and wheel sprockets, chain, braking mechanism, and bike stand. In an alternate embodiment the pedals on each side may be made of telescopic members to provide reciprocal motion so that the forward end of the pedal does not move reciprocally. Also a terrain engaging frame extension is provided below the middle portion of the frame for engaging terrain objects to prevent the pedals from engaging the terrain during activation.