Intelligent grouping transportation - Autonomous dial-a-ride transit system

摘要

A mode of public transportation which uses computer systems, data communication systems, electronic positioning systems, and electronic street navigation systems in order to orchestrate a fleet of driver-controlled multi-passenger transit vehicles on the roads. To ride via this transport system, individual travellers must first submit their itinerary requirements to the computer system. Typically, travellers will do this by entering their itinerary data on their cellular telephone. The computer system scans all the submitted itinerary requirements that it receives, and then intelligently groups travellers with compatible itineraries onto the same, typically minibus-sized, transit vehicle. The computer system creates a customised road route for this transit vehicle so that each traveller thus grouped is picked up and conveyed exactly according to his itinerary, even though journeying simultaneously with other travellers on board. The computer system supplies street navigation instructions to the transit vehicle driver to direct him along this customised road route.