SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A TAXI SHARING BRIDGE SYSTEM

摘要

The system and method disclosed herein provides a taxi sharing bridge system, which uses taxis from a plurality of taxi companies (and their respective taxi sharing systems) to effectively dispatch commuters to their specific destinations when a disruption occurs in a public transportation system. The system and method includes client devices associated with a plurality of users, a taxi sharing bridge system and a plurality of taxi sharing systems. The system uses past transportation service usage data to determine a preferred route of a user to travel from an origin to a destination. The system takes into account a priority level of the users who choose to use the service to group them into taxis to arrive at a destination upon a disruption in the public transportation system. The priority level may be based on the commuter's waiting time, the commuter's loyalty, and preferred route type.

主权项

1. A system able to group users of a transportation service into groups for sharing a taxi service upon a disruption in the transportation service, the system comprising:
a plurality of client devices associated with a plurality of users, each client device including a respective client device processor and a respective client device communication interface coupled to the respective client device processor for communicating over one or more networks; a plurality of taxi sharing systems for arranging a taxi for one or more users, each taxi sharing system including a respective taxi sharing device processor and a respective taxi sharing device communication interface coupled to the respective taxi sharing device processor for communicating over the one or more networks; a service computing device including a service computing device processor, and a service computing device communication interface coupled to the service computing device processor for communicating over the one or more networks with the plurality of client devices and the plurality of taxi sharing systems, the service computing device programmed to: determine an origin, a destination, and a preferred route, of one or more routes from the origin to the destination, for each of the users using the transportation service based on data indicating prior use of the transportation system; receive, from the transportation system, disruption information indicating a period of time the transportation system is disrupted and stations affected by the disruption; determine users affected by the disruption based on the disruption information; determine, a priority level indicating a relative priority compared to priority levels of other users, for each affected commuter; group affected users into groups based on the origin, the destination, the gender, and the priority of each of the users; assign users to the plurality of taxis, based on taxi schedule information received from each of the plurality of taxi sharing devices; and send taxi assignment information to the plurality of client devices and the plurality of taxi sharing systems.