Ride-sharing Seating Assignment for Smooth Deboarding

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Solution Overview

Problem

In ride-sharing mediation systems, users often face difficulties in smoothly deboarding vehicles due to unspecified seating positions, leading to inconvenience when one user exits along the travel route.

Innovation Solution

The system sets seating positions for users based on their boarding and deboarding locations on the vehicle's travel route, allowing for smooth deboarding by determining optimal entrance and exit points and seating arrangements.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If seating positions are not specified for users, then the ride-sharing mediation system can operate with simpler management, but users cannot smoothly deboard the vehicle when one user exits along the travel route

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedeboarding smoothnessVSAvoidseating position management

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system determines and assigns seating positions to users in advance before they board the vehicle, based on their boarding and deboarding locations. This preliminary assignment ensures that users can deboard smoothly without requiring other passengers to move, as each user is pre-assigned to a seat that facilitates their specific deboarding needs.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of operation

If seating positions are assigned based on boarding and deboarding locations, then users can deboard smoothly, but the system requires more complex calculation and management of seating arrangements

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedeboarding smoothnessVSAvoidseating position assignment

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSExtent of automation

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically performs seating position assignments based on user-provided boarding and deboarding location information. The automation processes the location data and determines optimal seating positions without requiring manual intervention, thereby achieving smooth deboarding while maintaining efficient system operation through self-service automation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Adaptability or versatility

If users are allowed to sit anywhere in the vehicle, then boarding is more flexible, but other passengers may need to move when a user deboards, causing inconvenience

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveboarding flexibilityVSAvoidpassenger movement requirement

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system assigns specific seating positions to individual users based on their local needs (boarding and deboarding locations) rather than applying a uniform seating arrangement. This localized assignment ensures that each user's specific deboarding requirements are met while maintaining overall boarding flexibility, as users can still board from various locations but are guided to specific seats for optimal deboarding.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS11227238B2Ride-sharing management method, ride-sharing management device, and vehicle

Publication Date: 2022.01.18 NISSAN MOTOR CO LTD

AI summary

A ride-sharing management method for managing ride-sharing of a vehicle by a plurality of users using a control device, where the ride-sharing management method includes calculating a deboarding order of the users on a basis of boarding and deboarding locations of the users on a travel route of the vehicle for the users to share a ride, calculating an entrance to the vehicle on a basis of the deboarding order of the users, and setting seating positions of the users on a basis of the deboarding order and the entrance.