Methods and Systems for Determining, Characterizing, Addressing and Quantifying Disturbances to Transit System Operation
First Claim
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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Abstract
A method and system for handling an incident affecting a transit agency is provided. The method and system allow for obtaining an indication of the existence of the incident, defining the incident, determining affected items, and securing the affected items as required. The method and system further allow for quantifying the impact of the incident.
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28 Claims
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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. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 28)
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15. A system for defining an incident affecting a transit system having one or more items and a current schedule for each of the items, the system comprising:
a transit control center comprising; an incident module executed by a computer processor and comprising one or more incident templates stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium for one or more define incident types that can auto-populate information bout the incident if the incident is of a defined incident type the incident module configured for; selecting an incident template that can auto-populate information about the incident if the incident is of a defined incident type; receiving one or more geographic parameters relating to the incident; defining an incident geographical area (IGA) relating to the incident; accepting one or more incident parameters relating to the incident. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 27)
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20. (canceled)
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21. A system for quantifying the impacts of an incident affecting a transit agency, an incident having a geographical area (IGA) relating to the incident, 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; a scheduling module executed by a computer processor and further comprising a scheduling algorithm stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium and executed by said computer processor for creating schedules for items, the scheduling module configured for; getting the incident; 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; securing items affected by the incident; computing a cost to secure items affected by the incident; and calculating the impact of the incident. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26)
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22. (canceled)
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