Ride Sharing Detection System for Facility Access Incentives
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Solution Overview
Problem
Ride sharing adoption is hindered by the lack of incentives for users, making it difficult to promote the practice effectively as a solution to traffic congestion.
Innovation Solution
An information processing device and method that detect vehicles sharing multiple users and provide them with facility access privileges or economic merits, such as discounts, to enhance user motivation for ride sharing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If ride sharing is promoted without incentives, then traffic congestion can be alleviated, but user motivation to use ride sharing remains low
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the economic parameters by introducing preferential treatment mechanisms such as toll discounts and facility usage privileges for ride-sharing vehicles. This transforms the cost-benefit parameters of ride sharing, making it more attractive to users while maintaining traffic congestion alleviation goals
Solution Approach 2:
The patent converts the potential harm of increased facility usage by ride-sharing vehicles into a benefit by implementing preferential treatment policies. Instead of restricting ride-sharing vehicles, the system provides them with economic merits and priority access, thereby motivating users to participate in ride sharing while still achieving traffic management objectives
2Ease of operation
If preferential treatment is provided to ride-sharing vehicles, then user motivation increases, but facility management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the facility management system receives information about ride-sharing vehicle identification, verifies their status, and automatically applies preferential treatment. This automated feedback loop simplifies management by reducing manual intervention while maintaining the preferential treatment program
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables ride-sharing vehicles to self-identify and receive preferential treatment automatically through vehicle-mounted terminals or recognition systems. This self-service approach reduces the burden on facility management personnel while ensuring consistent application of preferential policies
Data Source
AI summary
An information processing device includes a processor configured to detect whether or not a vehicle that is about to use a facility is under share ride by a plurality of persons, and permit the vehicle to use the facility or providing an economic merit associated with usage of the facility to the vehicle, when having detected that the vehicle is under share ride.