Travel Route Generation Using Vehicle-Based Preference Screening

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing travel route generation systems fail to provide personalized routes that cater to individual user preferences, which can vary significantly based on vehicle-related information and situational factors.

Innovation Solution

A travel route generation system that collects running location information and vehicle-related data, allowing users to input screening criteria, and generates recommended routes based on this information, utilizing past vehicle data to tailor routes to individual preferences.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a travel route generation system provides generic routes based on common paths, then the system is simple and easy to implement, but it fails to provide personalized routes that cater to individual user preferences

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalization capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-collects running location information and vehicle-related information from multiple vehicles during past travels and stores this data in advance. This preliminary data collection enables personalized route generation without requiring complex real-time data gathering, thus achieving personalization while controlling system complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses collected vehicle-related information and running location information as feedback to generate recommended routes that match user preferences. The screening criteria based on vehicle-related information create a feedback loop that continuously improves route personalization accuracy

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If the system collects and processes extensive vehicle-related information to achieve personalization, then route personalization improves, but information processing complexity and storage requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveroute matching accuracyVSAvoiddata processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the necessary vehicle-related information (vehicle type, specifications, performance) from collected data and stores it in association with running location information. This selective extraction reduces data processing complexity while maintaining sufficient accuracy for route personalization

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system transforms collected vehicle data into standardized parameters and screening criteria that can be efficiently processed. By changing the form of vehicle-related information into structured parameters, the system achieves accurate route matching without proportionally increasing processing complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS12332075B2Travel route generation system, travel route generation program, and travel route generation method
Publication Date: 2025.06.17 KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD
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AI summary

A travel route generation system includes: a first collector that collects running location information indicating running locations through which a plurality of vehicles have run; a second collector that collects vehicle-related information related to the plurality of vehicles; a memory that stores the vehicle-related information in association with the running location information; a criteria inputter that receives inputs of screening criteria including a criterion regarding the vehicle-related information; a processor that generates a recommended running route according to the screening criteria and based on the running location information and the vehicle-related information which are stored in the memory; and an outputter that outputs the recommended running route generated by the processor.