Riding Vehicle Schedule Adjustment Controller
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems fail to effectively support travel adjustments when scheduled riding vehicles are changed, leading to inconvenience and increased environmental load due to delayed or early arrivals at boarding times.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus and method that determines if a scheduled riding vehicle should be changed based on predetermined position information, extracts alternative candidate vehicles, and allows users to approve changes, thereby adjusting the vehicle to ensure timely and environmentally friendly travel.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the scheduled riding vehicle is changed based on position information, then the user can board the vehicle timely, but the system complexity increases due to real-time monitoring and alternative extraction
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by extracting alternative candidate vehicles in advance before the scheduled boarding time. When the original vehicle cannot be boarded, the pre-extracted alternatives are immediately available, ensuring timely boarding without complex real-time decision-making processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The information processing apparatus acts as an intermediary between the user and the vehicle management system. It monitors position information, determines boarding feasibility, extracts alternative vehicles, and presents options to the user, thereby managing system complexity while ensuring reliable timely boarding.
2Adaptability or versatility
If alternative candidate vehicles are extracted and presented to the user, then the user has more choices for timely boarding, but the information processing load increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts a limited number of alternative candidate vehicles (e.g., top 3 alternatives) rather than all possible alternatives. This partial action provides sufficient choice for the user while significantly reducing the information processing load and energy consumption compared to extracting all possible alternatives.
3Loss of time
If real-time position information is monitored to determine vehicle changes, then boarding timing is optimized, but the energy consumption for continuous monitoring increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system monitors position information periodically at predetermined time intervals rather than continuously in real-time. This periodic monitoring optimizes boarding timing by detecting vehicle arrival and user movement at key moments while significantly reducing energy consumption compared to continuous monitoring.
Data Source
AI summary
An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a controller configured to execute: determining whether to change a scheduled riding vehicle for a first user or not based on predetermined position information related to a first user's riding a first vehicle, before a scheduled time on which the first user is to board the first vehicle which the first user is scheduled to board at a first boarding place; extracting one or more candidate vehicles serving as alternative candidates for the first vehicle, when it is determined to change the scheduled riding vehicle for the first user; and changing the scheduled riding vehicle for the first user from the first vehicle to a second vehicle that is one of the one or more candidate vehicles, based on an approval by the first user.