EP3284034A1 - Booking of rentable vehicles in a car sharing system - Google Patents
Booking of rentable vehicles in a car sharing systemInfo
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Definitions
- the invention relates to the field of so-called "free floating car-sharing" systems, such systems typically comprising a central server designed and arranged to communicate with rentable vehicles and at least one mobile device, the rentable vehicles being operated in a road transport network, and
- the invention relates to a method of operating such a system and to a system of the same type.
- free-floating car sharing is understood here to mean that a rentable (power) vehicle within a defined area of use, for example in a road traffic network, can be parked by a user at the end of a rental period in each free parking space
- the location of the vehicle at the parking lot is transmitted from the respective vehicle to the central server of a fleet operator and is thus currently known, so that the distribution of rentable vehicles in the area of use is currently known, but only vaguely predictable in the future.
- a customer can currently, for example, search via smartphone for currently available vehicles in his area and reserve them currently.
- a booking of a vehicle for a future point in time leads to a reduction in the current availability of the vehicle fleet.
- the object of the invention is to improve the possibilities of using a free floating car sharing system.
- a method for operating a system tems comprising a central server, which is designed and set up for data exchange with rentable vehicles and mobile devices, wherein the rentable vehicles are operated in a road network and at least transmit their current positions to the central server.
- the method comprises the following steps.
- one of the mobile devices specifies a first position in the road traffic network, a search area about the first position, and a condition lying in the future.
- the mobile device is advantageously a smartphone or a tablet PC or a mobile computer.
- Predetermining the above information / data advantageously takes place by means of a manual or acoustic input into the mobile device, or by resorting to, and selecting corresponding data already stored in the mobile device.
- the first position can be specified, for example, in the form of coordinates or as an address in the road traffic network (for example as: city, street, house number).
- the search range around the first position is advantageously determined as the radius of a circle around the first position, or by specifying a maximum distance that may be traveled in foot from the first position, or by a maximum time that passes for a walking movement from the first position may, determined and entered accordingly.
- the walking movements are preferably carried out on provided in the road network footpaths.
- the condition lying in the future is advantageously a time condition.
- a predetermined time of day for example, by a predetermined time of day, or a predetermined time of day in connection with a given date, or a predetermined time of day in connection with a given day of the week, or a predetermined time of day in connection with a given month, or a predetermined time of day in connection with a given day of the week and a given month, or a given time of day in connection with a given year, or a given time of day in connection with a given year and nem predetermined month, a given time of day in connection with a given year and a given month and a given day of the week.
- any recurring time points can also be defined, which in particular specify a future point in time at which a vehicle is to be rented.
- regularly recurring rental requests can be defined, for example, on weekdays 6 pm (to drive home from work), or daily at 08:00 am and 5:00 pm.
- the first position, the search area and the condition are transmitted from the mobile device to the central server.
- the central server also has information on the position of the vehicles in the road network, in particular, the parking positions of the currently available for a rental vehicles are known.
- a third step if the condition is fulfilled by the central server for the duration of a predetermined period At1, a determination is made as to whether an appurtenable vehicle is available in the search area and, if so, a transfer of information relating to the rentable vehicle to the mobile device.
- the latter is advantageously carried out by means of a mobile Internet, GSM network, UMTS network, LTE network, GPRS network, HSDPA network or W-LAN. Whether the condition applies is also continuously tested in a variant of the central server and found accordingly or continuously tested in an alternative variant of the mobile device, determined accordingly and transmitted to the central server when the condition occurs.
- the presence / presence of the condition is determined at a time t0 from the central server, then it is determined for a period from to to to + ⁇ 1 whether or not there is available a rentable vehicle in the search area.
- the period At1 is advantageous in the range from 15 minutes to 120 minutes. It is particularly advantageous 30 min, 45 min, 60 min, 75 min, 90 min, or 105 min.
- the information relating to the rentable vehicle is transmitted to the mobile device, for example as a push message.
- This information advantageously includes one or more of the following information: position or address of the rentable vehicle, vehicle type, number of seats of the vehicle, rental price, fuel level, maintenance status, booking code, activation code for the vehicle, walking distance from the current location of the mobile Device for rentable vehicle, for example, in meters / km, or in walking distance and / or instructions to the driver.
- the mobile device uses the transmitted information to create and issue a booking offer.
- the booking offer includes all or some of the information transmitted to the mobile device.
- An advertisement of the booking offer advantageously also includes a representation of a map of the road network with the marked current position of the mobile device and the marked position of the rentable vehicle.
- a footpath optimized for one or more predetermined criteria is displayed on the map in addition to the rentable vehicle. These criteria are, for example, the shortest or the fastest way.
- the user can book or reject the booking offer issued by the mobile device bindingly, for example by further corresponding input / s into the mobile device and corresponding transmission of the binding booking or the rejection to the central server.
- an attachable vehicle determined by the central server is exclusively offered to the mobile device for a predetermined period of time (for example 5 min, 10 min, 15 min). If there is no binding booking or rejection during this period, the booking offer will become invalid.
- the central server advantageously continues to determine, until the time t 0 + ⁇ 1, whether in the search area rentable vehicle is available. If such a second rentable vehicle is determined, the procedure is analogous.
- the vehicle is available to the user.
- the proposed method allows the start of booking, in the form of a temporal condition, the first position, which indicates the location at which a vehicle is to be rented, and the search circle to freely specify the first position.
- the procedure makes this possible without reducing the general availability of the vehicle fleet or blocking vehicles for too long.
- the predetermined first position is the current position of the mobile device.
- the mobile device has a position detection system, eg a GPS Galileo, GLONASS receiver.
- the first position and a correspondingly updated region around the first position are repeated, for example every minute, every 2, 5, 10 minutes is transmitted to the central server.
- the first position is basically set equal to the current position of the mobile device until a position or address in the road network is specified as the first position.
- An advantageous further development of the method is distinguished by the fact that the central server predicts whether an appurtenable vehicle is available when the condition occurs in the search area and, if so, the central server transmits the information concerning the rentable vehicle to the mobile device for issuing a booking offer.
- the transmission of the booking offer to the mobile device can already take place before the occurrence of the condition.
- the prediction of the availability of an attachable vehicle in the search area by the central server is advantageously carried out on the basis of statistics on historical data on the availability of a rentable vehicle in the search area under the predetermined condition.
- This data is provided to the central server for this purpose.
- the historical data advantageously make it possible to evaluate the availability of a rentable vehicle in the search area as a function of given days of the week, time of day. seasons, holidays, special events (sporting events, fairs, carnival parades, etc.), and / or local weather in the search area.
- This development of the method enables high availability of the fleet vehicles and a pre-booking option with a high reliability.
- a system comprising a central server, rentable vehicles, and at least one mobile device, the central server being adapted and arranged to communicate with the rentable vehicles and the mobile device, and wherein the rentable vehicles operate in a road network and at least forward their current positions to the central server.
- the system is characterized in that the mobile device for setting a first position in the road traffic network, a search area around the first position, and a future condition is executed and set up, the mobile device continues to transmit the first position, the Search area and the condition is executed and set up to the central server, the central server is designed and set up to determine if a rentable vehicle is available in the search area and if applicable, the rentable vehicle if the condition applies for the duration of a predetermined period At1 Transmit information to the mobile device, and the mobile device is finally designed and arranged to create and issue a booking offer based on the submitted information.
- Fig. 1 is a schematic process flow of a proposed method
- Fig. 2 is a schematic structure of a proposed system.
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic process flow of a proposed method for operating a system
- a central server which is designed and set up for data exchange with rentable vehicles and mobile devices (eg smartphones), wherein the rentable vehicles are operated in a road network and at least their current ones Transfer items to the central server.
- the vehicles are for this purpose equipped with a position detection unit, in this case a G PS system.
- a user on a mobile device has a first address (city, street, house number) in the road network, a radius of 500 m defining a search area around the first position, and a future condition ,
- a first address city, street, house number
- a radius of 500 m defining a search area around the first position
- the mobile device has a corresponding car sharing app.
- the Car-Sharing-App serves the input and output of information, to carry out the corresponding information processing, as well as the corresponding communication with the central server.
- the mobile device also has a position detection unit (GPS).
- a second step 102 the first position entered by the user, the search area and the condition are transmitted to the central server via mobile Internet.
- a determination is made by the central server for the duration of a predetermined period At1 1 hour as to whether an appurtenable vehicle is available in the search area.
- the central server has the position information of the individual rentable vehicles available. If a rentable vehicle is determined in the search area, information relating to the rentable vehicle is transmitted to the mobile device.
- a fourth step 104 the mobile device, ie the application running thereon (English, for "application software"), prepares a booking quotation on the basis of the transmitted information and outputs it on a display of the mobile device : Position or address of the rented vehicle, displayed as a position in a map section displayed on the display, the vehicle type, the number of seats of the rentable vehicle, the rental price, the tank filling status, the maintenance status, the booking code, the walking distance from the current position of the mobile device to the rentable vehicle, for example, in m / km, or in walking distance.
- a fifth step 105 the user makes a binding acceptance of the booking offer by means of a corresponding input to the mobile device.
- this booking confirmation is transmitted from the mobile device to the central server, which then in turn transmits an activation code to the mobile device in a seventh step 107.
- the activation code can, for example, consist of characters (numbers / letters / other characters) or be an optical code, for example a bar code or matrix code, which is used to open and activate the respective rentable vehicle.
- the transmission of the activation code to the mobile device is coupled to an effective payment of a rental fee.
- FIG. 2 shows a schematic structure of a proposed system comprising a central server 201, rentable motor vehicles 202, 202a and at least one mobile device 203.
- the central server 201 is designed and set up for data exchange with the rentable vehicles 202, 202a and the mobile device 203.
- the central server 201, the vehicles 202, 202a and the mobile device 203 have a radio communication interface.
- the vehicles 202, 202a are operated in a road traffic network 204.
- the rentable vehicles 202, 202a and the mobile device 203 arranged schematically in the section of the road traffic network shown in FIG. 2 are arranged at their respective current positions in the section of the road traffic network.
- the vehicles 202, 202a determine their respective current position and transmit it to the central server 201 with a respective vehicle identifier.
- the mobile device 203 is configured and set up to input a first position 206 in the road traffic network, a search area 205 around the first position 206, and a future condition.
- the first position indicates the position desired by the user to take over a rentable vehicle in the road network.
- the condition here is a future date.
- the mobile device 203 for automatically transmitting the first position 206, the predetermined search area 205 and the predetermined condition to the central server 201 is executed and set up.
- the central server 201 is also designed and configured to determine, if the condition applies, for the duration of a predefined period ⁇ 1, whether an attachable vehicle 202a is available in the search area 205.
- FIG. 2 shows the situation when the condition is met.
- the vehicle 202a is recognizably located within the search area 205.
- the central server 201 recognizes this and transmits the information to the rentable vehicle 202a to the mobile device 203.
- the mobile device 203 is further configured and arranged to create and issue a booking offer based on the transmitted information.
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