Dynamic Stop Position Adjustment for Vehicle Route Efficiency
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for managing on-demand vehicle schedules often result in detours, extra trips, and delays, leading to reduced profitability and increased energy consumption for passenger transportation vehicles.
Innovation Solution
An information processing method that acquires stop position information and tolerable range information from users, decides alternative routes, and transmits approval inquiries to user-controlled apparatuses, assigning benefits or costs based on route approvals to enhance running efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the vehicle strictly follows the desired stop position for each user, then the user service quality is improved, but the running efficiency and profitability deteriorate due to detours and extra trips
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the stop position within a tolerable range based on real-time route optimization needs. Instead of fixing the stop position strictly, the system allows flexible adjustment within the first tolerable range, enabling the vehicle to take more efficient routes while still meeting user requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of stop position from a fixed value to a flexible range (first tolerable range). This parameter transformation allows the vehicle to select optimal stop positions that balance user service quality with running efficiency, avoiding unnecessary detours.
2Ease of operation
If the vehicle makes detours to reach desired stop positions, then the user service quality is improved, but the energy consumption increases and profitability decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically determines stop positions within the tolerable range to minimize energy consumption. By flexibly adjusting the stop position rather than strictly following the desired position, the vehicle can avoid unnecessary detours and reduce energy usage.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transforms the stop position from a fixed parameter to a flexible range parameter, enabling optimization of energy consumption while maintaining acceptable service quality. The vehicle can select stop positions that minimize travel distance and energy expenditure.
3Ease of operation
If the vehicle strictly adheres to sequential reservations, then the user service quality is improved, but the arrival time delays and running efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the vehicle route and stop positions within tolerable ranges to minimize arrival time delays. Instead of rigidly following sequential reservations, the system flexibly optimizes the route while ensuring the vehicle still serves each user within their acceptable tolerable range.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the route parameters dynamically based on tolerable ranges of multiple users. This allows the vehicle to take optimized routes that reduce overall travel time and delays while still meeting user requirements within their tolerable ranges.
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AI summary
An information processing method enhancing running efficiency of a passenger transportation vehicle is provided. The information processing method includes acquiring first stop position information indicating a first desired stop position of a first user riding a vehicle and tolerable range information indicating a gap range from the first desired stop position, which the first user tolerates, acquiring second stop position information indicating a second desired stop position of a second user riding the vehicle, deciding the second route based on the first stop position information, tolerable range information, and second stop position information, transmitting an inquiry of whether the second route is approved to an apparatus controlled by the first user, or assigning a benefit or the cost to the first user in a case of receiving a response indicating that the second route is approved or not approved from the apparatus.