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Methods and Systems for Determining, Characterizing, Addressing and Quantifying Disturbances to Transit System Operation

  • US 20140188542A1
  • Filed: 12/27/2012
  • Published: 07/03/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2012
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A system for handling an incident affecting a transit agency, the system having an operator from the transit agency, and the transit agency having one or more items, some of the items having a home location, that the transit agency may create a schedule for or have a current schedule for, the current schedule having a starting point, an ending point, and one or more route segments that define portions of streets being traveled on, the system comprising:

  • a transit control center comprising;

    an incident module executed by a computer processor and configured for;

    obtaining an indication of the existence of the incident;

    defining the incident, comprising receiving one or more geographic parameters relating to the incident and providing an incident geographical area (IGA) relating to the incident;

    providing the incident to a scheduling module; and

    a scheduling module executed by a computer processor and further comprising a scheduling algorithm stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium for creating schedules for items when executed by the computer processor, the scheduling module configured for;

    getting the incident from the incident module; and

    determining items affected by the incident, wherein the determining further comprises checking if an item'"'"'s home location is within the IGA, if an item is currently within the IGA, or if the item'"'"'s current schedule is to bring them into the IGA.

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