US 11,953,334 B2
System and method for vehicle routing
Young-Jae Lee, Timonium, MD (US); and Amirreza Nickkar, Rosedale, MD (US)
Assigned to Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD (US)
Filed by Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD (US)
Filed on Sep. 10, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/017,084.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/898,111, filed on Sep. 10, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0072037 A1, Mar. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G06Q 10/047 (2023.01); G06Q 10/0631 (2023.01); G06Q 50/30 (2012.01)
CPC G01C 21/3453 (2013.01) [G01C 21/362 (2013.01); G06Q 10/047 (2013.01); G06Q 10/06312 (2013.01); G06Q 10/06315 (2013.01); G06Q 50/30 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An automated method for routing transport vehicles from and to a plurality of primary transportation hubs, comprising:
receiving, at a processor of a routing system computer, data from a plurality of intended transport vehicle passengers indicative of a current location and an intended destination of each said intended transport vehicle passenger;
designating, at said processor, a plurality of constraints comprising a unique maximum degree of route circuitry for each said intended transport vehicle passenger;
calculating, at said processor, a maximum travel time for each said intended transport vehicle passenger based on one of said constraints representing a corresponding unique maximum degree of route circuitry, wherein a corresponding maximum travel time for one of said intended transport vehicle passengers is calculated as said unique maximum degree of route circuitry for said one of said intended transport vehicle passengers multiplied by an actual, direct travel time for said one of said intended transport vehicle passengers between said current location and said intended destination of said one of said intended transport vehicle passengers;
clustering, at said processor, subsets of said plurality of intended transport vehicle passengers according to said current location and said intended destination of each of said plurality of intended transport vehicle passengers;
determining, at said processor, an optimal travel routing for each of a plurality of transport vehicles to transport each said intended transport vehicle passenger associated with one of said subsets between one of said plurality of primary transportation hubs associated with said one of said subsets and a final destination or starting point for each said intended transport vehicle passenger,
wherein the determining of said optimal travel routing uses said maximum travel time for each said intended transport vehicle passenger; and
transmitting, from said routing system computer, a routing signal to each said transport vehicle in said one of said subsets instructing each said transport vehicle in said one of said subsets to travel along a determined optimal travel routing for each said transport vehicle.