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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2014
Conduent Business Services, Llc, Dallas, TX (US);
Gregorio Convertino, Martina Franca, IT;
Jutta K. Willamowski, Grenoble, FR;
Stefania Castellani, Meylan, FR;
Maria Antonietta Grasso, Grenoble, FR;
Conduent Business Services, LLC, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for planning a transportation service includes sending transportation proposal to a plurality of organizations. The proposal includes one or more initial options, each including a set of variable parameters. Each organization can generate a modified option and make a commitment conditional on selected ones of the parameters. Each organization sends respective modified options to commuters of that organization who may specify their own pledges for at least one of the modified options, conditional on the organization-selected values for the variable parameters and optionally on commuter-selected values for the variable parameters. A cost-benefit function is computed for each of a set of revised options for the transportation service, each of the revised options being based on a combination of the variable parameters for which pledges which cover the combination have been received and one or more of the revised options is identified, based on the computed cost-benefit function.