TRAVEL PLANNING BASED ON MINIMIZING IMPACT OF VEHICULAR EMISSION

• US 20170199045A1
• Filed: 01/11/2016
• Published: 07/13/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: George, Thomas, Mittal, Rashmi, Radhakrishnan, Chandrasekar, Sabharwal, Yogish, Saxena, Vaibhav
• Granted Patent: US 10,670,413 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 29/0406 Layout of the intake air cooling or coolant circuit
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 29/083 Cyclically operated valves disposed upstream of the cylinder intake valve, controlled by external means
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3461 Preferred or disfavoured areas, e.g. dangerous zones, toll or emission zones, intersections, manoeuvre types, segments such as motorways, toll roads, ferries
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3469 Fuel consumption; Energy use; Emission aspects

Abstract

One embodiment provides a method for determining at least one recommended vehicular travel route, the method including collecting a plurality of travel route inputs from a plurality of sources, relative to a travel route comprising a starting point and an ending point; determining at least one travel route recommendation by (i) assessing the collected plurality of travel route inputs and (ii) taking in to consideration vehicle emission impact parameters; and tracking vehicle adherence. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein.

Claims

1. A method of determining at least one recommended vehicular travel route, said method comprising:

utilizing at least one processor to execute computer code that performs the steps of;

collecting a plurality of travel route inputs from a plurality of sources, relative to a travel route comprising a starting point and an ending point;

determining at least one travel route recommendation by;

(i) assessing the collected plurality of travel route inputs and (ii) taking into consideration vehicle emission impact parameters; and

tracking vehicle adherence to the at least one travel route recommendation.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said collecting comprises collecting a plurality of travel route inputs for calculating vehicular emission costs.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein said assessing comprises identifying, based upon predetermined criteria, at least one time-specific risk zone.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the at least one time-specific risk zone comprises at least one zone in the travel route selected from the group consisting of:

a zone of higher population density, a zone defined by one or more aspects of land use, and a zone including green cover.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein said assessing comprises assigning an effective emission score, based on predetermined risk designations.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein said assigning comprises calculating an emission cost factor for each time-specific risk zone.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein said assigning comprises calculating an average ambient air quality index for each time-specific risk zone.

8. The method according to claim 5, wherein said assigning comprises assessing population density for each time specific risk zone.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein said assigning comprises:

identifying risk zones;

measuring ambient air quality of the risk zones; and

calculating the predetermined risk designation.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the travel route comprises a plurality of segments; and

said determining comprises assessing the collected plurality of travel route inputs and taking into consideration vehicle emission impact parameters relative to each of the segments.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein said assessing comprises recommending at least one travel route based on a user-specified request during completion of at least one of the route segments.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein said assessing comprises grading emission categories based on effective emission costs.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein said tracking comprises utilizing a route matcher.

14. An apparatus for determining at least one recommended vehicular travel route, said apparatus comprising:

at least one processor; and

a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith and executable by the at least one processor, the computer readable program code comprising;

computer readable program code configured to collect a plurality of travel route inputs from a plurality of sources, relative to a travel route comprising a starting point and an ending point;

computer readable program code configured to determine at least one travel route recommendation by;

(i) assessing the collected plurality of travel route inputs and (ii) taking into consideration vehicle emission impact parameters; and

computer readable program code configured to track vehicle adherence to the at least one travel route recommendation.

15. A computer program product for determining at least one recommended vehicular travel route, said computer program product comprising:

at least one processor; and

a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith and executable by the at least one processor, the computer readable program code comprising;

computer readable program code configured to collect a plurality of travel route inputs from a plurality of sources, relative to a travel route comprising a starting point and an ending point;

computer readable program code configured to determine at least one travel route recommendation by;

(i) assessing the collected plurality of travel route inputs and (ii) taking into consideration vehicle emission impact parameters; and

computer readable program code configured to track vehicle adherence to the at least one travel route recommendation.

16. The computer program product according to claim 15, wherein the collecting comprises collecting a plurality of travel route inputs for calculating vehicular emission costs.

17. The computer program product according to claim 15, wherein the assessing comprises identifying, based upon predetermined criteria, at least one time-specific risk zone.

18. The computer program product according to claim 17, wherein the at least one time-specific risk zone in the travel route selected from the group consisting of:

a zone of higher population density, a zone defined by one or more aspects of land use, and zone including green cover.

19. The computer program product according to claim 15, wherein the assessing comprises assigning an effective emission score, based on predetermined risk designations.

20. A method comprising:

recommending a plurality of vehicular travel routes that encompass various time-specific risk zones;

measuring ambient air quality in the time-specific risk zones;

assessing the effective emission costs of each of the plurality of travel routes;

thereupon identifying a preferred route travel route; and

tracking vehicle adherence to the preferred travel route.