Rideshare Vehicle Directive Verification for Concurrent Passenger Transport
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing transportation network systems often lack up-to-date information on the current passenger transport obligations of vehicles, leading to potential conflicts when attempting to assign additional passengers to vehicles already en route or transporting other passengers.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a transport computing device on each vehicle to receive and verify directives that allow it to accommodate additional passengers without violating existing passenger obligations, ensuring compliance with current transport commitments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a transportation vehicle unit is assigned to transport additional passengers while already transporting other passengers, then the productivity and efficiency of the transportation system is improved, but the reliability of meeting existing transport obligations may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a verification mechanism where the transportation vehicle unit communicates its current obligations and capacity status back to the network system. The network system receives this feedback and uses it to determine whether additional passenger assignments would conflict with existing obligations, thereby maintaining reliability while enabling productivity improvements.
Solution Approach 2:
Before assigning additional passengers to a vehicle unit, the network system performs preliminary verification to ensure that the vehicle has sufficient capacity and that the additional assignment will not conflict with existing transport obligations. This preliminary check prevents reliability issues before they occur.
2Reliability
If real-time verification of transport obligations is implemented, then the reliability of obligation compliance is improved, but the device complexity and information processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The transportation vehicle unit is equipped with onboard computing devices that autonomously maintain and report their current obligations and capacity status. This self-service approach allows the vehicle to manage its own information, reducing the complexity burden on the central network system while ensuring reliable real-time verification.
Solution Approach 2:
The network system uses a universal data structure and communication protocol that can handle multiple types of information (obligations, capacity status, passenger details) in a standardized manner. This universality simplifies the system architecture by providing a single framework for diverse information processing needs.
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AI summary
Computationally implemented methods and systems that are designed for receiving one or more first directives that direct a transportation vehicle unit to transport a first end user; receiving, while the transportation vehicle unit is en route to or is transporting the first end user, one or more second directives that direct the transportation vehicle unit to transport a second end user while transporting the first end user, the transportation vehicle unit having been determined to be able to accommodate transport of the second end user while transporting the first end user; and verifying that compliance with the one or more second directives will not conflict with one or more obligations to transport the first end user by the transportation vehicle unit. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.