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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2022
Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Renaud Louis Jean-Paul de Peretti, San Francisco, CA (US);
Aseem Garg, Belmont, CA (US);
Philippe Charles Amilcar Mizrahi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ramon Dario Iglesias, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hao Yi Ong, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tejinder Singh Aulakh, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Timothy Tay Chao, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for generating and transmitting autonomous vehicle prepositioning instructions to improve network coverage. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems subdivide a geographic transportation service area into subregions, generate a set of waypoints and circuits for the subregions. Moreover, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems utilize an optimization model to assign autonomous vehicles to the set of waypoints and circuits and transmit digital prepositioning instructions to the autonomous vehicles to traverse the waypoints and circuits.