Duplicate Travel Detection for Route Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vehicle delivery methods often result in inefficient travel patterns, leading to excessive mileage and increased fuel costs due to vehicles traveling along the same streets multiple times in a day, which is not only wasteful but also indicates potential inefficiencies in route planning and driver behavior.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that utilize location data to detect duplicate travel along defined street segments, allowing for the identification and minimization of redundant routes by superimposing visible indicia on street segments traveled multiple times, enabling route optimization and highlighting inefficiencies.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If vehicles travel along streets multiple times to deliver items, then delivery coverage is improved, but fuel consumption and travel distance increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple delivery trips along the same street into a single consolidated route by identifying and detecting duplicate travel patterns. The system combines delivery tasks from different times into one optimized trip, reducing the number of vehicle trips while maintaining complete delivery coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary analysis of delivery routes to identify streets that will be traveled multiple times. By detecting duplicate travel patterns in advance and planning consolidated routes beforehand, the system prevents unnecessary repeated trips and optimizes fuel consumption before the actual delivery occurs.
2Productivity
If vehicles travel along streets multiple times, then all items can be delivered, but time efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple delivery trips into one consolidated route by identifying streets that are traveled multiple times. The system merges delivery tasks from different trips into a single optimized route, ensuring all items are delivered while reducing total travel time.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback from detected duplicate travel patterns to continuously optimize delivery routes. By monitoring and analyzing travel data, the system provides feedback on inefficient routing and adjusts future routes to minimize time loss while ensuring complete delivery.
3Device complexity
If duplicate travel is not identified, then current routing methods are simple, but route optimization opportunities are lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary detection system that analyzes travel patterns without fundamentally complicating the routing infrastructure. The detection module acts as a mediator between simple routing operations and optimization goals, identifying duplicate travel patterns and enabling route consolidation while maintaining system simplicity.
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus is provided for detecting duplicate travel. The apparatus may include at least one memory and at least one processor configured to detect a travel path of a vehicle based in part on received items of location data. The processor is also configured to determine whether the travel path is associated with a defined street segment including a plurality of location points corresponding to a street. The processor is further configured to determine whether the vehicle travels the street multiple times in a predefined time period. The processor is further configured to superimpose visible indicia on the defined street segment in response to detecting that the vehicle traveled the street multiple times during the predefined time period. Corresponding computer program products and methods are also provided.