Health Checkup Vehicle Stop Location Controller
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing health checkup technologies are not convenient when a location far from patients' homes is set for health checkups, leading to inefficiencies in travel distances and parking availability.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus that determines a stop location for a health checkup vehicle with travel distances equal to or less than a threshold, calculates parking allowable numbers, and suggests alternative transportation means when vehicle parking is exceeded.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a health checkup location is set far from patients' homes, then the health checkup service can be provided, but the travel distance for patients increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic location selection for the health checkup vehicle by determining stop locations based on real-time patient distribution data, travel distance thresholds, and parking availability. The system continuously adapts the vehicle's stop location to optimize the balance between service provision and patient travel convenience, rather than using a fixed location.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of location by selecting stop locations that satisfy multiple conditions: within a predetermined travel distance threshold from patients' homes, with adequate parking capacity. The controller adjusts the stop location parameters based on patient numbers, vehicle types, and parking lot characteristics to resolve the contradiction.
2Ease of operation
If more patients who plan to travel using vehicles are accommodated, then patient convenience is improved, but parking availability becomes insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary assessment of parking capacity at potential stop locations before finalizing the route plan. The controller calculates the parking allowable number in advance based on patient numbers and vehicle types, and only selects stop locations where parking availability suffices, preventing parking insufficiency before it occurs.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms by comparing the number of patients planning to travel by vehicle against the calculated parking allowable number. When parking availability is insufficient, the system provides feedback by suggesting alternative transportation means to specific patients, thereby adjusting the overall transportation distribution to match parking capacity.
3Quantity of substance
If alternative transportation means are suggested to patients, then parking pressure is reduced, but patient choice is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by providing differentiated suggestions to different patients based on their specific situations. Rather than uniformly restricting all patients, the controller identifies specific patients for whom alternative transportation should be suggested, considering factors like distance, patient preferences, and local transportation options, thereby maintaining patient autonomy while managing parking pressure.
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AI summary
A controller of an information processing apparatus is configured to determine a stop location for a health checkup vehicle at which travel distances required for patients of health checkups to be performed on the health checkup vehicle to travel to the health checkup vehicle are equal to or less than a predetermined threshold, calculate a parking allowable number at the stop location or a parking allowable number at a parking lot in a vicinity of the stop location, and suggest, in a case in which the patients include more patients who plan to travel using vehicles than the parking allowable number, transportation means other than the vehicles to the patients who plan to travel using the vehicles.