Patent Document ID: 9953539
Application ID: 15470957
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for providing a demand-responsive transportation system, the method comprising: receiving mobility trace data of collaborative individuals; generating clusters of individuals based on mobility-activity patterns of the collaborative individuals and defining a mobility-activity model for each of the clusters; assigning non-collaborative individuals to the clusters using a combinatorial optimization problem; determining an Origin-Destination (OD) demand from the clusters including the collaborative and the non-collaborative individuals; re-allocating at least some of the non-collaborative individuals to different ones of the clusters using an approximation function that learns from an observed OD and the mobility trace data of the collaborative users; training the mobility-activity models based on the re-allocation of the non-collaborative individuals to different ones of the clusters; maintaining an OD database (OD-DB) including a current OD demand determined from the trained mobility-activity models; querying the OD-DB with a geographic location and time so as to receive information from the OD-DB about the current OD demand for the geographic location and time; and issuing control actions to vehicles in a fleet of the transportation system using real-time information about the fleet and the information about the current OD demand from the OD-DB.