Vehicle Boarding Area Notification System
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Solution Overview
Problem
In urban areas, the limited space on streets and roadways leads to safety concerns as moving vehicles must adjust their path to avoid collisions with parked vehicles or pedestrians boarding or unboarding, due to the encroachment of parking spaces into lanes of travel.
Innovation Solution
A system that uses sensors and processors to calculate and communicate a boarding area requirement, generating a boarding area message to alert nearby vehicles and users, allowing them to adjust their path and avoid the boarding area, thereby improving safety and traffic efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If parking spaces are immediately adjacent to the lanes of travel, then space utilization is improved, but safety deteriorates due to risk of collision with parked vehicles or people boarding
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary detection of boarding activities using sensors (cameras, LIDAR, proximity sensors) before a collision can occur. When boarding is detected or anticipated, the system proactively generates warnings to approaching vehicles and automatically adjusts the parking brake to prevent door opening, thereby preventing the harmful effect before it materializes.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors the environment around parked vehicles using sensors and receives real-time data about approaching vehicles. This feedback loop enables the system to dynamically assess collision risk and respond appropriately by issuing warnings to approaching vehicles or preventing door opening, thus resolving the contradiction between space utilization and safety.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If moving vehicles adjust their path to maintain safe distance from parked vehicles, then safety is improved, but traffic efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary communication layer between parked vehicles and moving vehicles. By transmitting real-time boarding status and warning signals to approaching vehicles, the system enables them to make informed decisions about path adjustment, reducing unnecessary deviations and maintaining smoother traffic flow while still ensuring safety.
Solution Approach 2:
The system empowers approaching vehicles with the information needed to self-regulate their path and speed based on real-time boarding detection data. This self-service approach allows vehicles to independently make safe adjustments without requiring centralized control or manual intervention, thereby maintaining traffic efficiency while ensuring safety.
3Device complexity
If boarding area is not clearly defined and communicated, then device complexity is reduced, but safety deteriorates due to lack of awareness for nearby vehicles
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces physical signage or manual indication methods with electronic sensor-based detection and digital communication. Sensors automatically detect boarding activities and transmit information to approaching vehicles via wireless communication, eliminating the need for complex physical warning systems while providing more reliable and real-time safety information.
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments include apparatus and methods for defining vehicle boarding areas. Data indicative of boarding a first vehicle is received. A boarding area requirement associated with the first vehicle is calculated. A boarding area message in response to the boarding area requirement is generated. The boarding area message for the boarding area of the first vehicle is provided to a second vehicle or to a user.