Ride-Sharing Vehicle Matching Using Preliminary Driver Availability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Ride-sharing systems face challenges in efficiently matching users who can serve as drivers for vehicles without a specified regular driver, leading to vehicles being left behind at destinations, making it difficult for multiple users to utilize these vehicles.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus and method that acquire user information including departure and destination places, and travel schedules, to determine if one user can drive a vehicle from the destination of another user, allowing for matching of users with the same vehicle, enabling seamless transfer of driving duties.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If ride-sharing systems match users for vehicles without specified regular drivers, then vehicle utilization rate is improved, but vehicles may be left behind at destinations making subsequent use difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary matching by determining in advance whether a second user can drive the vehicle from the first user's destination before completing the first user's trip. This advance planning ensures the vehicle will be available for the second user without being left behind, resolving the contradiction between utilization rate and availability reliability
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback from the first user's destination and travel schedule to determine the second user's ability to drive the vehicle subsequently. This feedback mechanism allows the system to adjust matching decisions based on real-time information about vehicle location and driver availability, ensuring both high utilization and reliable availability
2Ease of operation
If the system determines whether one user can drive from another user's destination, then seamless transfer of driving duties is achieved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables users to self-report their driving availability and preferences, which are then automatically processed by the matching algorithm. This self-service approach simplifies the overall system complexity by reducing the need for manual coordination while still achieving seamless transfer of driving duties through automated decision-making
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AI summary
An object of the present disclosure is to provide a technology that makes it possible that a plurality of users use a vehicle that does not have a specified regular driver. An information processing apparatus determines whether or not after a first user moves to a destination place by driving a first vehicle, a second user is able to move by driving the first vehicle from the destination place of the first user as a departure place. If an affirmative determination is made in the determining, the information processing apparatus matches the first user and the second user with the first vehicle.