Transportation Corridor Recommendations for Trigger-Based Route Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional systems for managing vehicle routing information face inefficiencies and safety challenges due to manual updates and communications required for navigating transportation corridors, especially in dynamic conditions like traffic, weather, and emergencies, which impact operational efficiency and safety.
Innovation Solution
A system that automatically recommends transportation corridors based on vehicle configuration data and trigger events, providing visual and metric-based recommendations through a user interface, allowing occupants to select and communicate the optimal route, and enabling automated navigation and communication with ground systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual updates and communications are used to manage vehicle routing information, then system complexity is reduced, but operational efficiency and safety deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically receives trigger events, selects appropriate transportation corridors, and communicates routing information without requiring manual pilot intervention. The automated system serves itself by monitoring conditions and making routing decisions based on pre-established criteria and databases.
Solution Approach 2:
Manual mechanical communication and update processes are replaced with an automated electronic system that receives trigger events, queries databases, and transmits routing information electronically, eliminating the need for manual pilot-to-ground communications for routine updates.
2Reliability
If manual updates and communications are used for navigating transportation corridors, then ease of operation is improved, but safety deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors trigger events and automatically adjusts routing information based on current conditions. Feedback loops ensure that the most safe and efficient corridors are selected and communicated to the pilot in real-time without manual intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-queries the transportation corridor database and pre-selects appropriate corridors based on vehicle configuration and current conditions, having routing information ready before the pilot needs it, thus maintaining safety without adding operational burden.
3Productivity
If automated corridor selection is implemented, then productivity is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The automated system independently receives trigger events, queries the database, selects corridors, and communicates information without requiring additional manual systems or procedures, achieving automation through integrated self-service functionality.
4Loss of time
If real-time automated recommendations are provided, then loss of time is reduced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary queries of the transportation corridor database and pre-processes routing options based on vehicle configuration and current conditions, so that when a trigger event occurs, the most appropriate corridor is already identified and can be immediately communicated to the pilot.
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AI summary
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for providing transportation corridor recommendations. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by one or more processors and from a transportation corridor database, a set of transportation corridors, receiving, by the one or more processors, vehicle configuration data for a vehicle, receiving, by the one or more processors, an indication of a trigger event, selecting, by the one or more processors, a subset of transportation corridors from the set of transportation corridors based at least in part on the vehicle configuration data and the trigger event, providing, via a user interface of the vehicle, one or more of a visual representation of the subset of transportation corridors and a visual representation of a recommendation of a transportation corridor of the subset, wherein the recommendation is based at least in part on an efficiency metric value for the transportation corridor.