Digital Compass for Transportation Vehicle Location
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional transportation systems face inefficiencies and frustration due to difficulties in locating transportation vehicles and requesters, leading to missed pickups, duplicate requests, and increased digital communications traffic, which results in higher processing requirements.
Innovation Solution
A transportation orientation system that generates and provides a digital compass on client devices to dynamically indicate the direction between a requester and a transportation vehicle, improving location accuracy and reducing confusion in complex environments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional transportation systems provide basic map and identification information, then requesters and providers can initiate pickup requests, but requesters and providers experience difficulty locating one another in crowded, unfamiliar, and complicated areas
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from two-dimensional map information to three-dimensional spatial orientation by introducing a digital compass that provides directional guidance in the vertical/angular dimension, enabling requesters to locate vehicles by direction rather than just by searching on a flat map interface
Solution Approach 2:
The digital compass acts as an intermediary tool between the requester and transportation vehicle, providing intermediate directional information that bridges the gap between knowing the vehicle's location and actually locating the vehicle in complex environments
2Productivity
If providers wait for requesters in assigned locations, then pickups can be completed, but providers waste valuable time searching for requesters and may cancel requests
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by providing real-time directional indicators to both requesters and providers, enabling them to actively search for and locate each other rather than passively waiting, thereby reducing search time and improving pickup completion rates
3Adaptability or versatility
If conventional systems process multiple pickup requests and cancellations, then transportation services can be provided, but digital communications traffic increases and processing time and computing resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by providing directional guidance before pickup occurs, enabling requesters and providers to locate each other efficiently on the first attempt, thereby preventing cancellations and duplicate requests that would consume additional computing resources
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AI summary
The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for providing an indicator of a direction between a requester and a transportation vehicle. For example, the systems and methods described herein can provide a dynamic digital compass from the current orientation of a requester client device to the location of a transportation vehicle. For example, the systems and methods described herein can determine a location of a requester client device, a location of a transportation vehicle, and an orientation of the requester client device. The systems and methods can also utilize the location of the requester client device, the location of the transportation vehicle, and the orientation of the requester client device to identify a direction from the requester client device to the transportation vehicle relative to the current orientation of the requester client device and provide a digital compass to indicate the direction to the transportation vehicle.