Guidance System Matching Congestion Elimination Time to Facility Usage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing crowd flow guidance systems face challenges in directing users to facilities where their usage time is neither too short nor too long, leading to inefficiencies in congestion elimination and delayed arrivals at destinations.
Innovation Solution
An information processing device that acquires operation information, identifies congestion elimination time, and guides users to facilities based on travel and staying times, using a correspondence relationship between total time and facility information to optimize guidance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If users are guided to a facility where usage time is extremely short, then congestion elimination speed increases, but users return to the station quickly causing congestion to persist
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes the parameter of facility selection by considering not just proximity but also the correspondence between congestion elimination time and facility usage time. This parameter change ensures users are directed to facilities where they will stay for an appropriate duration, preventing quick returns to the station while still maintaining efficient congestion elimination.
2Loss of time
If users are guided to a facility where usage time is extremely long, then users stay away from the station longer, but they cannot return immediately after congestion is eliminated causing delayed arrivals
Solution Approach 1:
The system optimizes the parameter matching between congestion elimination time and facility usage time. By selecting facilities where the usage time closely corresponds to the congestion elimination time, the system ensures users can return to the station immediately after congestion is resolved, maintaining accurate arrival times at destinations.
3Ease of operation
If existing guidance systems direct users to any nearby facility, then guidance simplicity is maintained, but facility usage time becomes unpredictable leading to guidance inefficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates feedback by using operation information from the transportation system to determine congestion elimination time, and then matching this with facility usage time. This feedback mechanism allows the system to provide simple guidance while maintaining high efficiency, as the guidance is dynamically adjusted based on real-time congestion conditions and facility characteristics.
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AI summary
An information processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires operation information as information indicating a present situation in a transportation system, a first present time, identification information, and facility information, an identification unit that identifies a congestion elimination time corresponding to the present situation by using the operation information, the first present time and the identification information and identifies a facility to which users should be guided based on the identified congestion elimination time and the facility information, a generation unit that generates information for guiding the users to the identified facility, and an output control unit that executes control for outputting the generated information.