Vehicle Ticket Assignment System Preventing Unintended Stopovers
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing destination-proposal type sales method for train tickets fails to prevent users from making unintended stopovers due to overlapping routes, which undermines the experience of unexpectedness and cost-effectiveness intended by the method.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle use ticket assignment system that extracts destination candidates without shared get-on/off points, allowing users to select from multiple destinations while ensuring no midway stopover, by using a processor to receive user conditions, extract candidates, and assign tickets based on predetermined criteria, thereby avoiding common stop stations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a destination proposal type sales method is applied to train tickets, then stock sales can be promoted and users can experience unexpectedness, but users can make unintended stopovers due to overlapping routes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the route network into distinct paths by selecting destination candidates such that no two candidates share a common get-on/off enable point. This segmentation ensures that once a user boards a train for a selected destination, they cannot stop at intermediate stations to switch to another destination, thereby preventing unintended stopovers while maintaining the surprise element of the destination proposal system.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism in the form of a lottery selection system that assigns destinations and trains after the user applies. The system uses a processor to randomly select from predetermined destination candidates and assigns corresponding trains, ensuring that the assigned train does not have shared segments with other candidates. This intermediary selection process resolves the contradiction by statistically ensuring no overlapping routes while maintaining stock sales promotion.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple destination candidates are extracted, then user choice and surprise are enhanced, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-extracting and storing multiple destination candidates that satisfy the no-shared-get-on-off-point condition before the user makes their application. The system maintains a database of predetermined candidates and their corresponding trains, so when a user applies, the system can quickly select from pre-processed options without performing complex real-time calculations, thus reducing system complexity while maintaining flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of destination candidate selection by using a lottery-based random selection method rather than allowing users to manually choose. This parameter change simplifies the user interface and system logic while maintaining the adaptability of offering multiple destinations. The system transforms the complexity of managing multiple choices into a simplified random selection process from pre-extracted candidates.
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AI summary
A vehicle use ticket assignment system for assigning a vehicle use ticket for a vehicle for which there is at least one fixed route and there is a fixed get-on/off enable point on the route is disclosed. The system receives a condition that includes a departure point and does not include a designation of a destination, and extracts a predetermined number of destination candidates that can be reached from the departure point by the at least one fixed route. After an application for a ticket for a vehicle is received from an information processing terminal, the system selects and assigns to the user one of boarding tickets to each of the extracted predetermined number of destination candidates based on a predetermined criterion.