Route-Based Commodity Matching for On-the-Way Vehicle Sales
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing use of vehicles by private individuals for commodity transportation and sales leads to increased energy consumption and delivery fees for buyers, highlighting a need for an improved technique in transportation and sale of commodities using vehicles.
Innovation Solution
An information processing system that includes a device and server to manage and communicate lists of commodities for sale and purchase, using position and travel route information to notify users of potential transactions, allowing for efficient matching and reduced vehicle usage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If private persons use vehicles for commodity transportation and sales, then commodity sales can be facilitated, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functions into a single vehicle trip: the seller's original transportation route is merged with buyer locations where commodities can be sold. The vehicle stops at these locations during its regular route, combining delivery and sales activities to reduce total vehicle trips and energy consumption.
Solution Approach 2:
The vehicle is made multi-functional by enabling it to perform both the seller's original transportation task and additional sales deliveries to multiple buyers along the route. This universal utilization maximizes the productivity of each vehicle trip, reducing the need for separate dedicated delivery trips.
2Ease of operation
If dedicated vehicle delivery is used for commodity transactions, then buyers can receive commodities conveniently, but delivery fees increase
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple delivery tasks are merged into a single vehicle trip by identifying buyers located along or near the seller's regular transportation route. This consolidation reduces the number of separate delivery trips needed, lowering energy consumption and delivery fees while maintaining convenient delivery service for buyers.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary matching between buyers and the seller's route before the vehicle departs. By pre-identifying suitable stop locations and buyers along the planned route, the system optimizes the delivery path in advance, ensuring convenient delivery while minimizing additional energy consumption.
Data Source
AI summary
An information processing system including an information processing device that is used by a first user and a server configured that can communicate with the information processing device is provided. The server is configured to store a first list of commodities which are sold by the first user who uses a vehicle, a second list of commodities which a second user wants to purchase, and position information of a receiving place of the commodities. The information processing device is configured to notify the first user of transaction information when a predetermined condition based on position information or travel route information of the vehicle which is moving and the position information of the receiving place is satisfied. The transaction information is information including identification information of commodities which are common to the first list and the second list and the position information of the receiving place.