Aerial Facility Transition Point Allocation for Multi-Modal Chokepoints
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Solution Overview
Problem
In multi-modal transportation systems, particularly in urban environments, there are challenges with traffic congestion and pollution due to limited transportation options, and existing systems face delays and inefficiencies when switching between ground-based and aerial transportation modes, especially at aerial transport facilities where transition points like elevators can become chokepoints.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that determines the most suitable transition point for users at aerial transport facilities based on multi-modal transportation data and facility data, optimizing the selection to reduce delays and improve efficiency by reserving and managing transition points, such as elevators, and providing users with accurate information to navigate the facilities effectively.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users switch between ground-based and aerial transportation modes at aerial transport facilities, then multi-modal transportation service is provided, but transition points like elevators become chokepoints causing delays and congestion
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by determining and reserving suitable transition points for users before they arrive at the aerial transport facility. The computing system analyzes user itineraries and facility data in advance to pre-assign specific transition points, ensuring users can smoothly switch between transportation modes without encountering congestion or delays at the facility.
2Productivity
If multiple users share transition points like elevators at aerial transport facilities, then facility resources are utilized efficiently, but congestion and wait times increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the facility's transition points into individually manageable units and assigns specific segments to specific users based on their itineraries. By dividing the overall transition process into user-specific segments, the system enables efficient resource utilization while preventing congestion, as each user has a predetermined transition point rather than all users competing for the same resources.
Solution Approach 2:
The computing system continuously monitors facility data and user itineraries, using this feedback to dynamically determine and adjust transition point assignments. This feedback mechanism ensures that transition point allocation optimizes both facility resource utilization and user experience, preventing congestion while maintaining efficient resource usage.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If traditional transportation modes are used in urban environments, then infrastructure requirements are lower, but traffic congestion and pollution increase
Solution Approach 1:
The computing system provides universal coordination across multiple transportation modes (ground-based and aerial), managing user itineraries that combine different modes. This multi-functional approach reduces traffic congestion and pollution by enabling aerial transportation to handle certain routes while maintaining a integrated system that coordinates all modes efficiently.
Data Source
AI summary
A computing system configured to perform operations is provided. The operation operations include obtaining multi-modal transportation data associated with a multi-modal transportation service. The multi-modal transportation data includes user data indicative of a multi-modal transportation itinerary for a user. The operations include obtaining facility data associated with an aerial transport facility. The facility data is indicative of parameters associated with each of a plurality of transition points at the aerial transport facility. The operations include determining one of the plurality of transition points as a selected transition point for the user based, at least in part, on the multi-modal transportation data and the facility data. The operations further include communicating one or more command signals associated with controlling operation of the selected transition point for the user.