Aircraft Management System for Shared Flight Coordination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional aircraft management systems do not effectively increase passenger load factor, particularly for small-capacity aircraft like VTOLs, as they do not consider coordinating air and land travel schedules to optimize passenger capacity.
Innovation Solution
An aircraft management system that acquires user schedule information and aircraft flight plans to identify suitable users for shared flights, suggesting flight usage and arranging flights when a predetermined number of users are matched, and also suggests shared ground transportation to optimize travel routes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If aircraft flights are arranged in response to individual user requests, then user convenience is improved, but passenger load factor is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple individual flight requests into a single coordinated flight arrangement. The system aggregates user schedule information and matches multiple users who can share the same flight, thereby combining separate travel requests into one consolidated flight operation that increases passenger load factor while maintaining user convenience through automated matching.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by proactively acquiring user schedule information and pre-matching potential flight shares before users make individual requests. The aircraft management system anticipates travel needs by collecting schedule data in advance and identifying suitable users who can be coordinated on common flights, rather than reacting to individual requests after they are made.
2Device complexity
If individual flight requests are processed separately, then flight arrangement simplicity is improved, but overall flight efficiency is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the flight arrangement process into distinct functional modules: user schedule information acquisition, flight plan information acquisition, suitable user extraction, and flight use suggestion. This segmentation allows each component to handle specific tasks independently, maintaining operational simplicity while enabling coordinated processing that improves overall flight efficiency through automated user matching and scheduling.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary system - the aircraft management system - that acts as a mediator between individual users and flight arrangements. This intermediary coordinates multiple user requests, matches suitable users for shared flights, and manages the overall scheduling process, thereby improving flight efficiency without requiring direct complex interactions between users and individual flight operators.
3Adaptability or versatility
If small-capacity aircraft like VTOLs operate with individual passengers, then operational flexibility is improved, but resource utilization is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies universality by creating a multi-functional approach that serves both individual users and multiple passengers simultaneously. The aircraft management system can accommodate various flight configurations - single passengers, multiple passengers, or shared flights - using the same operational framework. This allows small-capacity aircraft like VTOLs to maintain operational flexibility while improving resource utilization by matching multiple users on common flights when applicable.
Data Source
AI summary
An aircraft management system includes: a suitable user extraction section that extracts a suitable user, based on user schedule information on a plurality of users and aircraft flight plan information, the suitable user being a user having a traveling schedule to which traveling via a common specific air route on a common specific date and time is applicable; and a flight use suggestion section that, when a first predetermined number of the suitable users or more are extracted, transmits specific flight use suggestion information to a communication terminal used by each of the suitable users, the specific flight use suggestion information suggesting use of a specific flight corresponding to the traveling via the specific air route on the specific date and time.