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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2015
Nec Europe Ltd., Heidelberg, DE;
Luis Moreira-Matias, Heidelberg, DE;
Oded Cats, Rotterdam, NL;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method for providing a typical load profile of a vehicle includes computing dwell times and maximum load stops, wherein a maximum load stop indicates a stop having a largest load on a route for a trip using route information and vehicle scheduling information based on automatic vehicle location data, computing one or more trip load profiles by identifying a load progression rate by performing a local regression procedure dividing the route into subsections such that the loads between adjacent subsections can be represented by a linear function on input of the computed maximum load, the computed dwell times, and maximum load stops, and constraining the identified load progression rate to an admissible value by evaluating the rate load progression with regard to historical dwell times and the computed maximum load stops. The method further includes computing the typical load profile based on load profiles of computed trips.