Network Planning Tool for Transportation Flow Validation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Shipping carriers face complexity in maintaining accurate and efficient flow planning models across multiple transportation networks, making near real-time validation and optimization unfeasible due to the need for multiple tools and data integration.
Innovation Solution
A network planning tool that simulates an integrated flow model for multiple transportation networks using computer processors to receive, validate, and calculate updated flow models based on input data, facilitating near real-time validation and optimization across various transportation networks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple transportation network tools are used to simulate flow models, then comprehensive data coverage is achieved, but system complexity and operational difficulty increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent consolidates multiple transportation network tools into a single integrated network planning tool that can simulate flow models across air, ground, and ocean networks simultaneously. This merging eliminates the need to switch between multiple separate tools while maintaining comprehensive data coverage across all transportation modes.
Solution Approach 2:
The network planning tool is designed with multi-functionality to handle diverse transportation networks (air, ground, ocean) and various simulation scenarios within a single platform. It provides universal capabilities for flow model simulation, validation, and optimization across different transportation modes without requiring separate specialized tools.
2Adaptability or versatility
If changes are made to transportation network parameters, then model updates are achieved, but near real-time validation and optimization become unfeasible due to complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary validation and optimization preparations by maintaining pre-configured validation rules, optimization algorithms, and baseline flow models. When parameter changes occur, the system can quickly apply these pre-prepared resources to achieve near real-time validation and optimization without starting from scratch.
Solution Approach 2:
The network planning tool implements automated feedback mechanisms that continuously monitor parameter changes, validate them against existing flow models, and provide optimization recommendations in near real-time. This feedback loop enables rapid adaptation to changes while maintaining model accuracy across the transportation network.
Data Source
AI summary
Various embodiments provide a network planning tool comprising one or more memory storage areas containing data related to a plurality of transportation networks, and one or more computer processors configured to: receive input data comprising one or more modifications to one or more parameters associated with the plurality of transportation networks; retrieve at least a portion of the data contained in the one or more memory storage areas; validate the input data against the portion of data retrieved from the one or more memory storage areas, the validating comprising at least calculating one or more impacts to the integrated flow model based at least in part upon the received input data; and calculate, based at least in part upon the identified one or more impacts, one or more updated flow models for the plurality of transportation networks. Associated computer program products and computer-implemented methods are also provided.