An automated ridesharing dispatch system includes a memory configured to store historical data associated with past demand for ridesharing vehicles in a geographical area and a communications interface. The system also includes at least one processor configured to access the memory and to use the historical data to predict imminent demand of ridesharing requests including predicting general zones in the geographical area associated with imminent demand, select a holding zone for prepositioning empty ridesharing vehicles in order to expedite satisfaction of the predicted imminent demand, and send, via the communications interface, to a mobile communications device in a specific ridesharing vehicle, instructions directing the specific ridesharing vehicle to the holding zone.
Prepositioning Empty Vehicles Based on Predicted Future Demand
26.07.2018
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
IPC: | G08G Anlagen zur Steuerung, Regelung oder Überwachung des Verkehrs , TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS / G06Q Datenverarbeitungssysteme oder -verfahren, besonders angepasst an verwaltungstechnische, geschäftliche, finanzielle oder betriebswirtschaftliche Zwecke, sowie an geschäftsbezogene Überwachungs- oder Voraussagezwecke , DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTING PURPOSES / H04W WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS , Drahtlose Kommunikationsnetze |