Transport Path Metrics Viewer for Granular Onboard Service Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems fail to provide comprehensive, granular, and interactive monitoring of onboard services on vehicles such as aircrafts, trains, boats, and buses, limiting the ability to assess and improve service availability and quality in real-time.
Innovation Solution
An interactive graphical user interface (GUI) that visualizes and interacts with users to display the status of onboard services during a vehicle's trip, using color-coding and hover functionality to provide detailed information on service quality and issues, supported by a communications system that collects and processes metrics data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If comprehensive monitoring of onboard services is implemented, then service quality assessment capability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the transport path into multiple trip segments and monitors onboard services independently for each segment. This allows comprehensive service quality assessment across the entire journey while managing complexity through modular, segment-based processing rather than attempting to monitor all services simultaneously across the entire system.
Solution Approach 2:
The system adds a temporal dimension to service monitoring by tracking services across different time intervals and trip segments. This transforms the monitoring approach from a static overview to a dynamic, time-based analysis that provides granular service quality data without requiring a complete overhaul of the monitoring infrastructure.
2Loss of information
If granular service status information is provided, then information completeness is improved, but data processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides service status information into discrete trip segments, providing granular details for each segment while processing data in manageable portions. This segmentation allows the system to maintain complete information across the entire journey without being overwhelmed by processing all data simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary processing and organization of service status data as it is collected, structuring information by trip segment and service type before final analysis. This preliminary organization reduces the complexity of subsequent data processing while maintaining complete and granular service information.
3Loss of time
If real-time service monitoring is implemented, then responsiveness to service issues is improved, but computational resource consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements periodic monitoring intervals for onboard services rather than continuous real-time analysis. Service status is assessed at defined checkpoints during trip segments, providing timely detection of service issues while allowing computational resources to be conserved between monitoring cycles.
Solution Approach 2:
The system divides the transport journey into segments and focuses computational resources on analyzing service quality for current and recent segments. This segmented approach enables responsive monitoring of service issues while reducing overall computational burden by not continuously processing data for the entire journey simultaneously.
Data Source
AI summary
In some implementations, a method for visualizing an interactive transport path including displaying, on a display device, a map viewer comprising a geographic area map. The method further includes displaying, in the geographic area map of the map viewer, one or more trip segment icons corresponding to one or more time intervals of a period of time of the trip. The method further includes displaying, on the display device, a transport metrics viewer having one or more viewer segment icons corresponding to the one or more time intervals of the period of time and corresponding to one or more viewer segments of the transport metrics viewer, each viewer segment icon having a viewer feature that represents a corresponding status of an onboard service provided during a corresponding time interval of the one or more time intervals of the period of time of the trip.