Patent ID: 8442848
Filing Date: 2013-05-14
Classification: G06Q,G08G

Abstract:
1. An optimal taxicab dispatching system for optimally dispatching a plurality of taxicabs in a taxicab company to client pick-up locations in response to a request from a taxi client in which objective function based optimization is performed for a plurality of taxicabs located in one common geographical area in order to minimize company's total clients waiting time and to maximize taxicab company overall profitability, the system based on obtaining clients and taxicabs location based on mobile networks, comprising: a central processing unit including software code repository, including taxicab dispatching optimization model code, centralized taxicab database, an order information database, taxicab status information database, and a taxicab dispatching information database; such central processing unit is adapted to perform optimal taxicab dispatching based on the real-time optimization model performed under the various restrictive constrains; such central processing unit is capable of communicating with a set of input/output devices(s), and with a memory; an always-on network for communication between the central processing unit and the client's mobile/landline phone devices, and between the central processing unit and the taxicab driver's mobile devices; a set of client mobile and/or GPS-based devices to transmit new orders data to the central processing unit; a set of taxicab mobile and/or GPS-based devices to continuously transmit data on taxicab location and vacancy status; means for determining a location of taxicabs and taxi clients through mobile network positioning by obtaining cell phone positioning from a mobile network operator server or from the GPS; and an optimization engine to determine optimal total minimum clients waiting time for a taxicab company and maximal fees earned for a taxicab company, wherein an objective function of the optimization engine is constructed as: where C is a number of clients, T is a number of taxicabs, X