PATH DETERMINATION SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORT SYSTEM

• US 20080215390A1
• Filed: 10/25/2007
• Published: 09/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Trimble Planning Solutions Pty Ltd. (Trimble Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Trimble Planning Solutions Pty Ltd. (Trimble Inc.)
• Inventors: Gipps, Peter, Nixon, Robert, Gu, Kevin Q., Griffiths, Alan
• Application Number:
  US11/923,953
• Publication Number:
  US 20080215390A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/047 Optimisation of routes or paths, e.g. travelling salesman problem
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06316 Sequencing of tasks or work

Abstract

Aspects of the present invention relate to path determination for transport system infrastructure paths. In embodiments, methods and systems are provided for identifying alternative paths and determining optimized transport system paths for projects. The methods and systems may involve providing a client-based application having a GUI that presents a plurality of constraints that relate to a project, a server-based application for calculating the costs of a plurality of potential paths for presenting a subset of paths with associated cost data, and determining optimized paths for at least one of a pipeline, a conveyor, a canal, a multipurpose utility pipe, and a telecommunication line.

Claims

1. A method for identifying alternative paths for projects, comprising:

providing a client-based application having a GUI that presents a plurality of constraints that relate to a project;

providing a server-based application for calculating the costs of a plurality of potential paths for presenting a subset of paths with associated cost data; and

determining optimized paths for at least one of a pipeline, a conveyor, a canal, a multipurpose utility pipe, and a telecommunication line.