MUMBAI, India, June 30 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641074973 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology on June 17, 2026, for “an Ai-Driven Integrated Campus Shuttle Management System”.
Inventors include Dr. Arulkumar Varatharajan; Ankit Gupta; Aman Khanna; and Mohammad Faiz Khan.
The application for the patent was published on June 26, 2026, under issue no. 26/2026.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a campus transportation management system and, more particularly, to an AI-driven integrated campus shuttle management system configured to provide real-time shuttle tracking, seat reservation, and intelligent operational monitoring. The system comprises a cloud-hosted backend processing unit, a centralized database, a student interface module, a driver interface module, an administrator interface module, a location acquisition module, a seat reservation and transaction management module, a wireless communication module, and an analytics and decision-support engine. The location acquisition module obtains real-time geographical coordinates of shuttle vehicles from driver-operated mobile devices and transmits the coordinates to the backend processing unit for storage and synchronization through the centralized database. The seat reservation and transaction management module determines seat availability, manages reservation transactions, validates payment confirmations, and updates seat occupancy information. The backend processing unit synchronizes shuttle location, booking status, seat occupancy, and operational event information across the student, driver, and administrator interfaces in real time. The analytics and decision-support engine processes real-time and historical operational data to generate operational summaries, route utilization analyses, anomaly indications, and decision-support outputs. The proposed system enables coordinated shuttle operations, improved visibility of shuttle movement, efficient seat management, intelligent administrative oversight, and enhanced campus mobility through a unified cloud-based architecture. Fig 1 to 6.
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