Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dynamic aircraft routing
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Application No.: US16169726Application Date: 2018-10-24
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Publication No.: US10593215B2Publication Date: 2020-03-17
- Inventor: Ian Villa
- Applicant: Uber Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Agency: Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
- Main IPC: G08G5/00
- IPC: G08G5/00 ; G01C21/20 ; B64C29/00

Abstract:
A request for transport services that identifies a rider, an origin, and a destination is received from a client device. Eligibility of the request to be serviced by a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is determined based on the origin and the destination. A transportation system determines a first and a second hub for a leg of the transport request serviced by the VTOL aircraft and calculates a set of candidate routes from the first hub to the second hub. A provisioned route is selected from among the set of candidate routes based on network and environmental parameters and objectives including pre-determined acceptable noise levels, weather, and the presence and planned routes of other VTOL aircrafts along each of the candidate routes.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190340937A1 DYNAMIC AIRCRAFT ROUTING Public/Granted day:2019-11-07
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