City Management Support Apparatus Predicting Service Achievement

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current city management systems lack effective tools for predicting and managing the service achievement levels of multiple services sharing finite resources, failing to account for resource unavailability and its impact on service delivery.

Innovation Solution

A city management support apparatus and method that acquires resource provision status information, predicts future service achievement levels, and outputs these levels in association with resource status, providing alerts and alternative methods to mitigate service degradation due to resource abnormalities.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If multiple services share finite resources in a city, then service coverage and resource utilization improve, but service reliability deteriorates due to resource unavailability

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice coverageVSAvoidservice reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary prediction of service achievement levels by acquiring current resource provision status and using prediction models to forecast future service levels before resource shortages occur. This allows city managers to take preventive actions to ensure service reliability while maintaining high service coverage through efficient resource sharing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If resource provision status is monitored in real-time, then service management accuracy improves, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice management accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The city management support apparatus integrates multiple functions into a single system: acquiring resource provision status, predicting service achievement levels, and providing decision support. This multi-functional approach achieves high service management accuracy while avoiding the complexity of multiple separate systems by consolidating operations into one unified platform.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Loss of information

If service achievement levels are predicted for all services, then decision-making quality improves, but computational load increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedecision-making qualityVSAvoidcomputational load
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system focuses prediction efforts on services that are most affected by current resource provision status. By analyzing the relationship between resource status and service achievement levels, the system prioritizes predictions for critical services, thereby maintaining high decision-making quality while reducing unnecessary computational load on less sensitive services.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS20230177964A1City management support apparatus, city management support method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
Publication Date: 2023.06.08 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK
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AI summary

The city management support apparatus according to the present disclosure is an apparatus that supports management of a city in which a plurality of services sharing a finite resource are simultaneously provided. The city management support apparatus acquires information on a provision status of the resource, and predicts a service achievement level of each of the plurality of services in future by a predetermined time based on the provision status of the resource. Then, the city management support apparatus outputs the service achievement level of each of the plurality of services in a form associated with the provision status of the resource.