Computing timing intervals for vehicles through directional route corridors

US11482111B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Uber Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Kenneth Kuhn · San Francisco, US
• Eoin O'Mahony · San Francisco, US
• Miraj Ramhematpura · San Francisco, US
• Mustafa Sahin · San Francisco, US
• Lior Seeman · San Francisco, US
• Philippe Sekine · San Francisco, US
• Vishnu Sundaresan · San Francisco, US
• Meisam Vosoughpour · San Francisco, US
• Danhua Guo · San Francisco, US
• Robert Paine · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 8, 2019
• Grant date: Oct 25, 2022
• Expiry date: Aug 26, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08G1/127
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A computing system computes a timing interval between high-capacity vehicles (HCVs) for each HCV corridor within a geographic region to control rates of HCVs entering and exiting each of the HCV corridors. For each of the HCV corridors, the computing system schedules a first HCV to provide a transport service along the corridor beginning at a first starting time, transmits first schedule data for the corridor to the first HCV, schedules a second HCV to provide the transport service along the corridor beginning at a second starting time after the first starting time according to the timing interval for the corridor, and transmits second schedule data for the corridor to the second HCV.