AUTOMATED VEHICLE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM FOR MULTIPLE-SEGMENT GROUND-TRANSPORTATION

• US 20180211540A1
• Filed: 01/23/2017
• Published: 07/26/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2017
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited (BorgWarner Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc. (BorgWarner Incorporated)
• Inventors: Bedegi, Peter A., Laur, Michael H., Mangal, Nandita
• Application Number:
  US15/412,295
• Publication Number:
  US 20180211540A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0291 Fleet control monitoring fleets in traffic control systems for road vehicles G08G1/127, G08G1/127
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/025 Coordination of plural reservations, e.g. plural trip segments, transportation combined with accommodation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1095 Meeting or appointment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/40 Business processes related to the transportation industry shipping G06Q10/083
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/202 Dispatching vehicles on the basis of a location, e.g. taxi dispatching

Abstract

An automated vehicle transportation system for multiple-segment ground-transportation includes a communications-network, a first-automated-taxi, and a second-automated-taxi. The communications-network is used to send a transportation-request from a client to an automated-taxi-fleet. The transportation-request includes a destination. The first-automated-taxi transports the client along a first-segment of a route toward the destination. The second-automated-taxi transports the client along a second-segment of the route to the destination. The first-segment ends and the second-segment begins at a transfer-point. The system coordinates a first-meet-time of the first-automated-taxi and a second-meet-time of the second-automated-taxi at the transfer-point.

Claims

1. An automated vehicle transportation system for multiple-segment ground-transportation, said system comprising:

a communications-network used to send a transportation-request from a client to an automated-taxi-fleet, wherein the transportation-request includes a destination;

a first-automated-taxi that transports the client along a first-segment of a route toward the destination; and

a second-automated-taxi that transports the client along a second-segment of the route to the destination, wherein the first-segment ends and the second-segment begins at a transfer-point, and the system coordinates a first-meet-time of the first-automated-taxi and a second-meet-time of the second-automated-taxi at the transfer-point.

2. The system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the route to the destination is characterized by a distance, and the distance is greater than a range of the first-automated-taxi.

3. The system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the second-segment includes a terrain-type that the first-automated-taxi is not able to traverse.

4. The system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the first-meet-time of the first-automated-taxi and the second-meet-time of the second-automated-taxi differ by less than a minute.

5. The system in accordance with claim 4, wherein the system adjusts a pickup-time that the first-automated-taxi starts the first-segment so first-meet-time is different from the second-meet-time by less than a minute.