EP3593299A1

EP3593299A1 - User terminal and method for sending for a means of transport

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Publication number: EP3593299A1
Application number: EP18703767.6A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Marian Hilgers; Isabelle Fröhlich; Aaron Post; Daniel PALZER; Kathrin VÖLKER; Mark Lukas; Aurelia FRIEDLAND; Daniel Schulze
Original assignee: Volkswagen AG
Current assignee: Volkswagen AG
Priority date: 2017-03-06
Filing date: 2018-02-06
Publication date: 2020-01-15
Also published as: KR20190120281A; DE102017203613A1; US12002365B2; US20210082287A1; WO2018162159A1; KR102325142B1

Abstract

Disclosed is a user terminal, a means of transport, a server, a computer program product, a signal sequence and a method for sending for a means of transport (10). The method comprises the steps: - receiving user input entered using an actuation device (5) of a user terminal (3); in response thereto - sending a wireless message, - assigning the means of transport (10) to the user terminal (3) in response to the receipt of the wireless message; - determining - an expected arrival time and/or - interval until the arrival of the means of transport (10) at the user terminal (3), and - displaying a waiting time determined on the basis of the arrival time or interval by means of - a number of luminescent light means (6) predefined for the display of the waiting time and/or - a number, per time unit, of light means (6) to be activated or deactivated, and/or - a position of a luminescent light means (6) of the user terminal (3).

Description

description

User terminal and method for invoking a means of locomotion

The invention relates to a user terminal, a computer program product, a signal sequence and a method for summoning a means of locomotion. In particular, the present invention relates to a simple hardware for ordering means of locomotion, which can also be used by technically inexperienced persons as well as persons with cognitive and sensory restrictions who want to participate in road traffic.

Due to an ever increasing traffic density concepts have been given a boost, which is a common use of means of transportation through a variety

Users to the goal. Rental cars / rental cars, taxi providers, car-sharing pools and neighborhood vehicles increase the average life of each vehicle and thus reduce the traffic density, which conserves energy resources and the environment. Many of the above concepts use conventional smartphones on which appropriate applications ("apps") are to be installed to search, reserve, order, perform billing-related operations, make assessments of the means of transportation, and search for parking lots on which the vehicles can be accepted and returned later.

For a variety of potential users, smartphones are not appropriate end-user hardware. This is partly due to the sometimes expensive purchase as well as the expensive operation (data tariffs) of smartphones. On the other hand, for example, for visually impaired and elderly people displayed on the small displays information is difficult or impossible to see. In addition, the representation of information by numbers and letters requires a corresponding education, which is sometimes not available to fellow citizens from foreign-language foreign countries, for non-educational layers and children in pre-primary and primary school age. As a result, the traffic density according to the prior art is not lowered as much as possible.

DE 20 2016 004 260 U1 discloses a system for coordinating a plurality of vehicles which serve patient transport. To increase user comfort, will be

Transport parameters transmitted in digital form already when ordering and Vehicle parameter sets to ensure fulfillment of the purpose of the journey are aligned therewith.

DE 10 2015 209 190 A1 discloses a method for user-defined provision of a vehicle, in which a trajectory driven autonomously by a means of transportation within a parking facility (for example parking garage) is visualized on a smartphone display of a user. http://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/autoindustrie/autonom-fahren-google-sucht- partner-for-robot-car-in-auto-a-1009947.html reveals the idea to users ordering a car via smartphone -App to use the car like a taxi.

It is an object of the present invention to alleviate the above-mentioned disadvantages of the prior art.

The above object is achieved by a method for summoning a means of transport according to the invention. On the means of transportation, which as a car,

Transporter, truck, motorcycle, air and / or watercraft can be configured, will be referred to in the further course as "the first means of transportation"

To cause locomotion means, a user operates an actuator, e.g. A hardware according to the invention, which is also referred to below as a "first user terminal" The user terminal can indeed as a conventional smartphone

be designed. In particular, however, a hardware technology and software technology less complex and robust embodiment is preferred. In particular, a screen can be completely dispensed with, since the present invention enables a reduction of the optical communication between the user and the user terminal based on individual light signals. By the actuation of the actuator, which may be configured as a software or hardware button, a wireless message is sent by the user terminal, for example, this wireless message can be sent directly to the means of locomotion to be called terrestrial mobile communication, a Wi-Fi hotspot, etc. is interposed.

In addition, a server can also be interposed, which controls the communication between the user terminal or the user terminals and the respective one

Can promote means of locomotion or a variety of means of transport. Optionally, in particular subsequently, the called-up means of transportation is the User terminal assigned. In other words, the first means of transportation for the user of the user terminal can be reserved in the context of the method according to the invention. Here, a logical connection of the first means of locomotion with the first user terminal. This link is bound in particular to a single purpose of travel (picking up the user at his current position and bringing the user to his destination position) and can be resolved, in particular, once the travel order has been completed. With the assignment according to the invention, an expected arrival time of the means of locomotion is determined at the user terminal. This determination can be made in

different instances take place. For example, the o.g. Server determine the time until the arrival of the means of locomotion at the user terminal and a

Send corresponding information to the user terminal. Alternatively, the

User terminal the position of the means of transport are communicated, whereby the user terminal in knowledge of its own position and digital map material (optionally also on the basis of current traffic data) the expected arrival time of the

Can independently determine means of locomotion. Finally, that too

Means of locomotion, in particular arranged in the means of locomotion

Navigation system to determine the expected arrival time at the user terminal and send either directly to the user terminal and / or to the server, which in turn sends a corresponding time information to the user terminal. The time information may indicate an absolute time of day and, alternatively or additionally, a period of time (e.g., 15 minutes). In order to visualize the waiting time independently of its sensory or cognitive abilities to the user, a waiting time (also waiting time duration) determined on the basis of the arrival time or duration is displayed by means of a number of luminous illuminants predefined for the display of the waiting time. According to e.g. In the case of an hourglass, each luminous LED can stand for a certain period of time, so that the sum of the luminous illuminants illustrates the determined waiting time. Alternatively or additionally, the display of the waiting time can be made such that the number per unit time

auszuschaltender lamp is defined. For example, all available light sources provided for this purpose can first be switched on and linearly switched off in succession until the expiration of the expected waiting time. In other words, the waiting time is first evenly distributed to all bulbs and turned off after a first portion of the waiting time a first light source, after expiration of a second part of the waiting time a second light off, etc. Alternatively or additionally, a position of a luminous means of the user terminal be varied depending on the determined waiting time. This variant sometimes corresponds to an analog clock, whose pointer positions are symbolized by the bulb positions. Also can several positions of luminous lamps are varied depending on the determined waiting time. For example, a first position can be marked by a first luminous lamp and a second position by a second luminous lamp. The first position can be varied relative to the second position such that the two

Positions are only congruent or identical after expiry of the waiting period. Here, the first position can be fixed. Alternatively or additionally, both positions can be varied and "meet" at a predefined third position after expiry of the determined waiting time.

For example, both positions may have in opposite directions a linear or circular trajectory. In particular, the lighting means can not be arranged in a matrix-like manner with respect to one another and preferably can not be set up to display numbers and / or letters. Further, in particular, the lighting means may not be arranged to display predefined and / or optional shapes and / or symbols. For optically appealing design, a ramp-shaped control of the LEDs can ensure that smooth transitions between illuminated and non-illuminated areas of the light are generated. In this way, the waiting time can be displayed using the simplest hardware and almost no software and thus extremely robust. As a result, small children, retirees, and others can conveniently access means of transportation without having to carry a smartphone or decipher / understand information displayed on a display of a smartphone.

The dependent claims show preferred developments of the invention.

The means of locomotion can first be selected from a variety of means of transport, which have been logically linked in advance to the user terminal and / or a server. The server may be the server of a service provider / taxi company, etc.

Accordingly, the user terminal may also be linked to the server so that an identity of the owner of the user terminal as well as e.g. Payment modalities and contact details are stored on the server, without necessarily having to be deposited by means of the user terminal. Rather, those with the

User terminal has linked information required to fetch and carry the user, previously defined by means of a smartphone, a tablet, a personal computer or the like.

The means of locomotion may be selected in a conventional manner depending on the position of a plurality of means of locomotion in order to allow a shortest possible approach to the user and thus the shortest possible waiting time of the user. This increases the comfort of the user and reduces the emissions that arise for the user.

In particular, in the event that the method described above is to support a plurality of different user positions, a

Position determination of the first user terminal to be prompted. This can be done, for example, by evaluating Wi-Fi hotspots, terrestrial mobile radio signals and / or satellite-based transmitted signals. Unless the user enters

Smartphone leads with itself, can determine the position for example by the

Smartphone done and a short distance radio link (Bluetooth, Bluetooth LE) the coordinates of the user to the means of transport, the server or first to the first user terminal are sent. In other words, the determined position (actual position) of the user terminal is transmitted in the form of a wireless message and used by the first means of locomotion as the starting point of the route to be traveled with the user. This does not exclude that in the user terminal, a data memory may be included, which defines a plurality of predefined start positions. About the different starting positions associated actuation pattern, the user can use the

Actuator transmit a respective starting place to the means of locomotion. For example, a simple keystroke can pick up at the home address

while a double-click initiates a pick-up at the kindergarten. A long pressure in turn can arrange a pick-up at the retirement home or other facility. In this way, different ways of defining a starting position for the route to be traveled can be selected.

In order to keep the user terminal as simple as possible in terms of hardware and to preclude operator errors, it can be provided that destinations can be written to a memory of the user terminal by means of a smartphone, a PC or a tablet. For this example, a wireless information exchange or an electrical

Connection can be made with the user terminal. One possibility for an electrical connection is a USB or Firewire port, which can be connected to a PC. In one of the foregoing manners, a period (e.g., a time of day, particularly a weekday) within which the user terminal is predefined for the arrival of a particular destination may also be determined. Is then determined automatically that the user terminal in the

is reached the predefined destination automatically without the first means of locomotion by the user a target position is to pretend. Rather, the first means of locomotion reads from a memory of

User terminal or from an Internet-based / server-based profile where to go. This has the advantage that the user (in particular a child / a pensioner / a mentally incapacitated passenger) can not approach a destination other than that defined by a responsible person (e.g., guardian, guardian). For example, the user terminal may provide the user without a

Target definition passed or attached to it. The guardian may have one

Smartphone, a PC, etc., on the server / in a cloud predefine the currently approaching target position, where he linked an identifier / profile of the user terminal with the new destination. Once the first means of locomotion reads the identifier from the user terminal, the means of transport at the server / the cloud can ask if a

updated target position has been predefined for the user terminal or whether a generally predefined destination based on a current time of day / a current date is to be approached. Similarly, times of day / days of the week, etc., may be predefined to which the user (e.g., sensory or cognitively impaired) is authorized to define his or her own destination positions or with the driver of the vehicle

negotiate.

A particularly robust, energy - saving and visually appealing design of the

User terminal allows the use of a plurality of LEDs as lighting, which are controlled to emit the light or to display the waiting time. In particular, the LEDs can be arranged in a linear, circular, following an oval shape, or the like. In particular, the LEDs can surround the actuating device, preferably enclose. In this way, a user can even in poor visibility

Locate and use the actuator without any problems. The plurality of LEDs can, for example, have an optical diffuser which makes it difficult or completely avoids the individual illuminant / LED to be recognizable.

In the event that changes in the route planning of the means of transportation or traffic flow changes in the approach to the user terminal, an update of the expected arrival time can be taken as an opportunity to adjust the time visualized by the user terminal waiting time (update). In other words, the number of currently lit illuminants or the per unit time

auszuschaltender lamp of the user terminal or the position of the currently lit illuminant depending on an updated expected waiting time to be adjusted. Optionally, the user can be informed about the update become. For example, a beep and / or a vibration pattern and / or a

Flashing signal and / or a color change indicator to indicate that the previously expected arrival time of the means of transport has changed due to current circumstances. In order not to alarm the user, the updated waiting time can be divided among the currently luminous remaining bulbs, in particular in the event that the waiting time is illustrated by a number per time unit auszuschaltender bulbs and the bright remaining light bulbs thus (yes after updated waiting time) and accelerated / or slows down until the expiration of the updated wait time. If, in the context of the present invention, switching off the lighting means until the expiry of the waiting time is of course obvious to the person skilled in the art that the waiting time to be expected can also be illustrated by the chronological successive switching on of the lighting means, so that after expiry of the waiting time All lamps provided for this purpose in principle by the user terminal according to the invention emit light. Corresponding objects are therefore also to be understood as encompassed by the subject matter of the appended claims.

The update of the expected time of arrival or duration is - as described above - usually associated with a significant signaling overhead, which claims the energy resources of the user terminal according to the invention and possibly provided for this purpose data plan of the user. In order to minimize the cost of the update, it is proposed, in particular, to update the expected arrival time in predefined time slots. Alternatively or additionally, an event-based update of the expected time of arrival / duration can take place. For example, after a predefined percentage of the originally determined waiting time has expired, a request can be sent to the server or the entity determining the time of arrival. Alternatively or additionally, a fixed, predefined period of time can be determined before the expiry of the determined waiting time, and a request for updating the expected time of arrival or duration can be sent in response thereto. In response to receiving the request, the

Means or the server initiate a new route calculation or determine an otherwise updated expected arrival time and send to the user terminal. In this way, the user with low energy and

Data communication costs informed about the always current, expected arrival time / waiting time.

The method according to the invention for distinguishing such means of locomotion and user terminals, which are in spatial proximity, is particularly advantageously possible be used to each other. One example shows a possible embodiment of the method according to the invention as follows: First of all, a first user terminal is used as described above in order to bring about a first means of locomotion. In addition, a second user terminal is used to invoke a second means of locomotion. The second user terminal can also send a wireless message directly to a second

Transport means and / or to a predefined server (e.g., the server described above) in response to which the second means of transportation is the second

User terminal is assigned. In order to make the transportation means distinguishable for the waiting users, a second color information which differs from the first color information is also assigned to the second transportation means and the second user terminal. As described above, now is the second

Moving means for emitting light causes, which by the second

Color information is defined. The second user terminal is also caused to emit light whose color is defined by the second color information and the light color emitted by the second means of movement is substantially identical. Depending on the number of potential users, the use of the available color space will possibly complicate the distinguishability of the colors of the first color information and the second color information. Optionally, therefore, a respective position information of the first user terminal and the second user terminal can be compared with each other. If the positions of the two user terminals deviate sufficiently from one another (for example, the users are in different streets or even in different streets)

different neighborhoods are arranged), no confusion of each

approaching means of transport, even if identical colors are used. However, in response to a predefined spatial relationship (proximity) between the two user terminals, the second color information may be selected such that a predefined minimum color distance to the first color information is maintained. For example, different primary colors through the first and the second

Color information is thus defined, whereby there is no likelihood of confusion in the event that the first user and the second user wait side by side (for example, at the exit of a fair, kindergarten, or the like) for their respective means of transportation. The

avoided likelihood of confusion can lead several times to an improvement in the service. On the one hand, it can be ensured that a first transportation means brought about by a first user at a first time is not erroneously boarded by a second user, who had ordered his second means of transportation only at a later second time. On the other hand, any pre-defined

Desired configuration of the means of transport better to the needs of each waiting Be matched user. For example, if a kindergarten child requires a booster seat or a child seat, which is not carried by another means of transportation, a confusion of the approaching vehicles by the user can thwart the purpose of the trip. By a sufficient color distance (at least under a condition of a spatial proximity of the first user and the second user), therefore, the service of the means of transport or their operator can be made fairer and more comfortable.

In order to enable identification of the approaching first means of locomotion by the user as early as possible and barrier-free, a first color information can be assigned to the first user terminal and the first means of locomotion assigned to it. For example, a wireless message can be sent to the first means of transport, in which the first color information is contained. This can be done by the user terminal or by a server. Accordingly, a

Wireless message to the first user terminal (e.g., by the server or the

Means of locomotion) in which the first color information is contained. By emitting light of a color corresponding color of the

Users use a user terminal to determine which approaching

Moving means associated with him or his user terminal. For this purpose, the user can first see the light emitted by the user terminal and then search the environment for the means of transport, which emits light of the same color. In particular, the user can hold the user terminal in the direction of the approaching means of transportation in order to be able to compare the color tones particularly well with one another. Neither letters have to be deciphered nor understood in order to identify the means of locomotion, e.g. using a number plate to identify. Especially in the dark, the light emitted by the means of locomotion can be easily recognized from a distance, so that the user can possibly change the side of the road in order to ascend as early as possible. If the term "light of a predefined color" is used in the context of the present invention, this also includes a predefined temporal color gradient, a predefined temporal intensity profile and / or a predefined spatial

Understand light distribution pattern, which can be reproduced by both the user terminal of the user and the means of transport accordingly. It goes without saying that the light emitted for identification as a function of the color information can be or supplement that which is emitted by the user terminal according to the invention in order to illustrate the waiting time. According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a user terminal which can be used in a method as described above. The user terminal can be designed as a smartphone, handheld transmitter, or the like. In particular, a robust, low-volume and inexpensive hardware configuration is to be selected, which comprises an actuating device, a position-determining device, a

Transceiver device and an evaluation unit (for example, a microcontroller, a

programmable processor, etc.). In addition, light sources are provided which can emit light of a predefinable color. The evaluation unit is arranged to accept a user input in connection with the actuating device (for example a push button). By the user input the user of the

User terminal according to the invention the desire to summon a means of transportation from a predefined pool of means of transport. The transceiver (e.g., including an antenna) is arranged to transmit a wireless message to invoke a first vehicle in response to the user input associated with the position detector. The wireless message can be sent, for example, to a server which handles the switching between the user terminal and the means of locomotion. In addition, the transceiver device is set up, a confirmation of an assignment of the first means of transportation to the first

User terminal and optionally a first color information to receive / receive. In this way, it is acknowledged that the first means of transportation the call of the first

User terminal follows and no other passengers operated.

The user terminal according to the invention is set up to determine an expected arrival time or duration until the arrival of the means of locomotion at the user terminal. For this purpose, the user terminal can autonomously compare its own position and a current position of the means of transportation with one another and determine the expected arrival time (for example in conjunction with digital map material and / or traffic flow analysis data). This process may alternatively or additionally take place on a server and / or in the expected means of transportation. Alternatively or additionally, the

User terminal be configured to receive a wireless message (from the means of transport and / or from the server) and from this to determine the expected arrival time or duration until the arrival of the means of transport. Depending on the current time of day, the waiting time for the user can now be determined

Illustrating according to the invention a corresponding number of luminous bulbs is used in the user terminal. In other words, the predefined number

Illuminant electrically controlled. Alternatively or additionally, the waiting time can be determined by a number of lighting means to be switched off per time unit (for example, starting from a control all the illuminants provided for this purpose) or a number of luminous means to be switched on per unit time (starting from a state in which all luminous means provided for this purpose are switched off). Alternatively or additionally, a predefined position of a single luminous means or of a predefined (in particular immutable) group of luminous means corresponding to a pointer of a clock can be used to indicate the waiting time.

Depending on the received color information, the lighting means may also be arranged to emit light whose color is defined by the color information, whereby an optical association between the user terminal and the means of locomotion takes place. In summary, the user terminal is set up in response to the sending of a wireless message to a driving service characterizing a time information to be assigned a waiting time from the driver and the waiting time until the arrival of the

To indicate means of locomotion by a predefined time behavior of individually controlled LEDs. If the same color information is communicated to the assigned transportation means, the user terminal according to the invention can be used in conjunction with the

Means of transport realize the same features, combinations of features and advantages as described in connection with the o.g. Procedures have been performed.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, a computer program product is proposed which has instructions which, when executed on an evaluation unit of a user terminal according to the second-named aspect of the invention, cause the evaluation unit to carry out the steps of a method according to the first-mentioned aspect of the invention. The computer program product may be a CD, a DVD, a flash memory, a ROM / RAM, a Blu-ray Disc, etc.

According to a sixth aspect of the invention, a signal sequence is proposed, which

Represents instructions which, if they are on an evaluation of a

User terminal are carried out according to the second-mentioned aspect of the invention, cause the evaluation, the steps of a method according to the former

Invention aspect perform. In this way, the provision of the

Protective devices according to the invention also provided protection in the event that the data storage required for their permanent storage outside the scope of the appended claims. Further advantages, features and feature combinations of the present invention will become apparent from the following embodiments and the accompanying drawings. Show it:

1 is a schematic representation of a scenario in which two

Embodiments of a user terminal according to the invention for summoning two embodiments according to the invention

Means using an embodiment of a server according to the invention in one embodiment of a

inventive method can be used; a partially cutaway view of an embodiment of the invention user terminal;

FIGS. 3 to 10 different operating states of lighting means of an exemplary embodiment of a user terminal according to the invention for illustrating a waiting time or an expiry of the waiting time; and

1 1 is a flowchart illustrating steps of an embodiment of a method according to the invention.

Fig. 1 shows a schoolchild 1 as the first user, which is an autonomously mobile

To use means of locomotion 10 for the arrival of his dwelling 17 as a destination and a retiree 2 as a second user, a wheelchair suitable manned

The schoolchild 1 has a smartphone 15 coupled by means of Bluetooth with a inventively configured user terminal 3, wherein the smartphone 15 is capable of the current position of the schoolchild. 1 schoolchildren 1 1 would like to call a retirement home 18 as a destination with the help of a satellite 13 to determine. About the coupling and the user terminal 3 via the current position 16 of

Schoolchild 1 informs. In order to summon the autonomously moving means of locomotion 10, the schoolchild 1 presses a button 5 as an actuating device of the user terminal 3, in response to which this sends a wireless message via a transmitting tower 8 to a server 7, which is provided by the operator of the means of locomotion 10, 11, 12 , The server 7 determines that the means of locomotion 10 is the schoolchild 1 closest and designed to fulfill the driving task suitable. In addition, the server 7 determines on which route the means of locomotion 10 will travel to the schoolchild 1 and which travel time this is to be estimated. Optionally this can also be done on current

Traffic data / traffic flow data is accessed. The determined travel time is then via a wireless message from the server via the transmission tower 8 to the

User terminal 3 of the schoolchild 1 sent, which generates in response thereto by driving individual LEDs of the bulb 6, a display that represents the waiting time. For example, in this case a decreasing number of luminous lamps according to FIGS. 3 to 6 is used to signal the schoolchild 1 when it has to reappear at the position 16 at the latest (again) and has to move to the means of locomotion 10. Shortly thereafter, the server 7 receives from the user terminal 4 of the pensioner 2 the request to send a patient transport vehicle 1 1, wherein the user terminal 4, the current position of the pensioner 2 independently (by means of a not shown

Position determining means) using the satellite 13 and has included a corresponding information in the wireless message to the server 7. Also for the patient transport vehicle 1 1, a suitable route and an expected time of arrival by the server 7 is calculated as a function of digital map material and optionally using traffic data / traffic flow data, and via the transmitter mast 8

User terminal 4 of the retiree 2 sent. By means of individual LEDs within the

Illuminant 6 is then the pensioner 2 by changing positions of two LEDs according to FIGS. 7 to 10 illustrates when the ambulance 1 1 will arrive at retiree 2.

The server 7 also determines the predefined spatial proximity between the schoolchild 1 and the retiree 2, concludes that there is a likelihood of confusion in the event that the approaching vehicles 10, 1 1 get similar color information and looks for a color information for the ambulance 1 1 which differs sufficiently clearly from the color information sent to the automated traveling vehicle 10. Correspondingly receives the automated traveling means of transport 10 via an antenna 19 as a transceiver, the driving order and the color information, in response to soft an electronic control unit 14 as an evaluation causes a beacon 23 as a light source, when approaching the schoolchild 1 to 100m the beacon 23 depending on the Color information for

Emitting colored light into the environment of the vehicle 10. The user terminal 3 receives an expected arrival time of the locomotion means 10 at the position 16 and the identical color information in response to which a lighting means 6 surrounding the pushbutton 5 shines in a color corresponding to the color information. Subsequently, the user terminal 4 receives an expected arrival time of Patient transport vehicle 1 1 and the patient transport vehicle 1 1 sent color information.

Finally, it is found that the ambulance has approached 1 1 to about 100m of the position 16 of the retiree 2 and after passing through a building 9 is an optical axis to retiree 2, in response to what the beacon 23 emits light with a color, which is defined by the received color information. The same applies to the light source 6 of the user terminal 4, whereby the pensioner 2 the

approaching ambulance 1 1 can identify as determined by itself and can also distinguish from the also approachable automated driving means 10. Also, the light ring 6 of the user terminal 4 shows by a decreasing number of LEDs driven the decreasing time to expected arrival time.

An eyelet 24 allows easy and secure attachment of the user terminal 3 on the keychain, on a belt loop, or the like, of the user in question to ensure that the user the user terminal 3 can not lose. The user terminal 3 can therefore be designed as a key fob. A push button 5 as an actuating device is surrounded by a light ring 6, the diffuser is proportionately cut free to show behind it, in a circular ring shape linearly arranged LEDs 6a. The LEDs 6a are controlled by means of a programmable processor 20 as an evaluation unit, as soon as the user terminal 3 has been assigned a means of locomotion. Corresponding information can be determined by the programmable processor 20 via an antenna 22 for terrestrial mobile communication or for receiving Wi-Fi signals. A GPS antenna 21 is provided as a position detection device and also connected to the programmable processor 20 in terms of information technology. Due to the simple hardware which dispenses with a conventional display, an energy store (not shown) of the user terminal 3 can be particularly small and can be charged quickly (for example, inductively). The user terminal 3 can be programmed via a USB socket 25, whereby an authorized user picks up destinations and destinations

(especially depending on weekday and / or daytime windows) for the

User terminal 3 can predefine. Of course, a corresponding programming can also take place via the antenna 22.

3 to 6 show a first embodiment of a user terminal 3 in the form of a key fob, the hardware of which discussed in connection with Fig. 2 Embodiment corresponds substantially. In Fig. 3, all light emitting diodes (not shown) of the bulb 6 are driven, so that the arranged around the push button 5 ring is fully illuminated. The number of LEDs switched on can statically illustrate the waiting time, whereby a completely illuminated ring can stand, for example, for a waiting time of, for example, an hour, a half hour or a quarter of an hour. The Fign. 4 to 6 show the embodiment shown in Fig. 3, wherein the lighting means 6 is only partially switched on (decreasing with increasing figure order number). The respective configurations shown can either be used to represent the transmitted / determined waiting time or represent a respective state, which occurs with increasing expiry of the waiting time.

The Fign. FIGS. 7 to 10 show another embodiment for operating a

User terminal 3 according to the invention, in which the illuminant 6 surrounding the pushbutton 5 develops two luminous positions (see FIGS. 8 and 9) which subsequently overlap / merge with the user facing towards the user (FIG. 10) in order to illustrate the course of the determined waiting time ,

Fig. 1 1 shows steps of an embodiment of a method according to the invention for summoning a first means of locomotion. In step 100, a user input by means of an actuator of a user terminal according to the invention

received, with which the user orders a means of transportation to a predefined position. The position may be determined, for example, based on a time of day or defined by the current position of the user terminal. In response, in step 200, a position determination of the first user terminal is made to determine the starting point of the user's travel for the vehicle. For this purpose, the user terminal a wireless communication connection with the smartphone of the

Build user, which includes a tracking module for satellite-based positioning. In step 300, the determined position is encoded in data form and sent in step 400 in connection with a wireless message to a server of a mobility service provider. In step 500, a means of locomotion is defined for a user defined

Suited purpose, selected and assigned the means of transport to the user terminal. In step 600, an expected arrival time or a time until the arrival of the means of locomotion at the user terminal is subsequently determined. For this purpose, the server digital map material, the positions of the means of transport and the

User terminal and optionally also traffic data / traffic flow data. In step 700, the expected time of arrival or duration is communicated to the user terminal. Again, a wireless communication connection can be used and the

Time / duration, for example, under the intermediation of a terrestrial

Mobile communication network / be sent via WLAN to the user terminal. Finally, in step 800, a waiting time determined on the basis of the arrival time or duration on which the user must adjust until the arrival of the means of transportation is indicated by means of a number of luminous bulbs predefined for the display of the waiting time. In other words, first of all, the entirety of the lamps included in the user terminal is made luminous and is gradually cut off linearly until the lapse of the waiting time, whereby an hourglass-like behavior without a need for the user to read the clock or letters / numbers , results. In step 900, it is determined that the expected time of arrival has been reached. Since no / short-distance (radio) communication signal from the means of locomotion has been received at the user terminal at this time, it is determined in step 900 in the user terminal that needs for

Update of the expected time of arrival of the means of transport. In step 1000, therefore, a request to receive an updated expected time of arrival is sent by the user terminal. In response to receiving the request, at step 1 100 the expected arrival time is updated in the server and an updated expected arrival time is communicated to the user terminal in response to the updated arrival time at step 1200. In step 1300, in response, the number of currently lit illuminants is adjusted such that the sum of the currently lit ones

Illuminant again illustrates the expected waiting time. In other words, the number of luminous luminous means is chosen such that a time unit which is symbolized by a respective luminous luminous means multiplied by the number of luminous luminous means yields the current waiting time.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

school Children

pensioner

, 4 user terminal

push-button

light ring

a LEDs

server

transmission tower

building

0 Automated mobile means of transport1 ambulance

2 means of transportation

3 satellite

4 electronic control unit

5 smartphone

6 current position schoolchild / pensioner

7 dwelling

8 retirement home

9 GPS antenna

0 programmable processor

1 GPS antenna

2 antenna

3 beacon

4 eyelet

5 USB socket

00-1500 process steps

Claims

claims

A method of summoning a vehicle (10) comprising the steps

Receiving (100) a user input by means of an actuator (5) of a user terminal (3) in response thereto

Sending (400) a wireless message,

Associating (500) the means of locomotion (10) to the user terminal (3) in response to receipt of the wireless message,

- Determine (600) one

- expected time of arrival and / or

- Duration until the arrival of the means of transport (10)

User terminal (3), and

Displaying (800) a waiting time determined on the basis of the arrival time or duration by means of a pre-defined for the display of the waiting time

- Number of luminous bulbs (6) and / or

- number per time unit on or off switching lamp (6) and / or

- Position of a luminous illuminant (6) of the user terminal (3).

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the means of locomotion (10) from a plurality of means of locomotion (10, 1 1, 12) is selected, which are logically linked in advance with a server (7).

3. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein the actuating device (5) is a configured in hardware order button.

4. The method according to any one of the preceding claims further comprising

Causing (200) a position determination of the user terminal (3),

especially in communication with a smartphone (15), and

Encoding (300) the determined position in the wireless message to define a starting location for a travel with the means of locomotion (10).

5. The method according to any one of the preceding claims further comprising

Communicating (700) the expected time of arrival or duration to the user terminal

(3).

6. The method according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the lighting means (6) comprise a plurality of LEDs (6a), which in particular have a linienformige and / or no straight-line arrangement to each other.

7. The method according to any one of the preceding claims further comprising

Update (1 100) the expected time of arrival and depending on the updated

arrival time

Customize (1300)

- The number of currently lit illuminant (6) or

- Switched on and off per unit time lighting means (6) of the user terminal

(3).

8. The method according to any one of the preceding claims further comprising the steps

Determine (900) that the expected time of arrival - in particular, except for a predefined one

Deviation - or the duration and / or the waiting time - in particular to a predefined deviation - has elapsed and in response to it

Send (1200) an updated expected time of arrival or duration to the

User terminal (3).

9. The method of claim 8 further comprising the step

Sending (1000) a request to receive an updated expected time of arrival by the user terminal (3).

10. User terminal comprising

an actuating device (5),

a transceiver device (22),

an evaluation unit (20) and

Illuminant (6), wherein

the evaluation unit (20) is set up to accept a user input in connection with the actuating device (5),

the transceiver device (22) is arranged in response thereto

send a wireless message to invoke a means of locomotion (10), and

an acknowledgment of an association of the means of locomotion (10) with the user terminal (3) and a message relating to

- an expected time of arrival and / or - Duration until arrival

of the means of locomotion (10) at the user terminal (3), and depending on the arrival time or duration

the lighting means (6) is set up, a waiting time determined on the basis of the arrival time or duration by means of a pre-defined for the display of the waiting time

Number of luminous bulbs (6) and / or

Number of lighting units (6) to be switched on or off per unit of time and / or

Position of a luminous bulb (6)

display.

1 1. user terminal, which is set up as a user terminal (3) in one

Method according to one of the preceding claims 1 to 9 to be used.

12. Computer program product comprising instructions which, when executed on an evaluation unit (20) of a user terminal (3) according to claim 10 or 1, cause the evaluation unit (20) to carry out the steps of a method according to one of claims 1 to 9.

13. Signal sequence representing instructions which, when executed on an evaluation unit (20) of a user terminal (3) according to claim 10 or 1 1, the

Have evaluation unit (20) to perform the steps of a method according to any one of claims 1 to 9.