JP2000285390A - Baggage delivery managing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a baggage delivery managing device capable of realizing destination display of each baggage and route guidance to the destination of the baggage for a traveling object such as a delivery vehicle which loads baggage collected at a baggage storage place and delivers the baggage to respective destinations being delivery destinations. SOLUTION: A controlling part 17 has functions as a baggage delivery managing means which manages baggage delivery state with baggage data held by each baggage loaded on a delivery vehicle (traveling object) 3 and baggage data held by each unloaded baggage, as an instruction data preparing means which prepares delivery instruction data including the latitude/longitude data of each delivery destination being the delivery destination of each baggage under the management of the baggage delivery managing means and as a data outputting means which transfers the delivery instruction data prepared by the instruction data preparing means to a navigation device 2 and makes the device 2 handle the destination display of each baggage and route guidance to the destination.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a package delivery management device for managing the delivery status of a package, and more particularly to a package delivery management device for loading packages collected at a baggage collection point and delivering the package to each destination. The present invention relates to a package delivery management device capable of displaying a destination for each package and guiding a route to the destination for a mobile body such as a delivery vehicle that performs delivery.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, home delivery services in the domestic transportation industry, for example, have been remarkably developed and are frequently performed in various parts of prefectures. Under such circumstances, it is extremely important to sequentially grasp the movement of the luggage of each delivery vehicle in order to smoothly operate the distribution system.

[0003] From this point of view, conventionally, for example, a package delivery management device 101 having a system configuration shown in a functional block diagram of FIG. 4 has been used. This package delivery management device 10
Reference numeral 1 denotes a handy keypad 113 serving also as a display 111 and an input device 112, a card I / O 114, a data card 115 used as a storage medium, and a control having a function as a control center for controlling these components and a data processing function. And a loading unit 117, and execute the loading process according to the process flow illustrated in FIG. 5 and execute the unloading process according to the process flow illustrated in FIG. Specifically, it is as follows.

[0004] The delivery person, when loading at the luggage depot,
As shown in the processing flow shown in FIG.
By operating the input device 112 of the handy numeric keypad 113 with reference to the delivery instruction data displayed on the display 111 of FIG. 3 (ST501), the luggage data (loading data) of each loaded luggage is operated. , A product name, quantity, etc. are input (ST502). Thereby, the control unit 11
7, the loading data is created (ST503), and the created loading data is recorded on the data card (storage medium) 115 via the card I / O 114 (ST50).
4).

When the package is delivered to the destination, by operating the input device 112 of the handy numeric key 113 as shown in the flow of processing shown in FIG. 6, the package data of each unloaded package (unloading data). , A product name, quantity, etc. are input (ST601). As a result, unloading data is created by control unit 117 (ST602), and the created unloading data is recorded on data card (storage medium) 115 via card I / O 114 (ST603).

[0006] When the delivery is completed, the delivery member operates the luggage delivery management device 1
By operating 01, the luggage delivery management device 101 automatically creates a daily work report on loaded and unloaded luggage based on data read from the data card (storage medium) 115.

[0007]

However, the conventional package delivery management device merely manages the movement of the package in an attempt to automatically create a workman's daily report upon completion of delivery. However, there is an inherent problem to be solved such as not having a function to actively support the package delivery business.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and includes a mobile body such as a delivery vehicle for carrying packages delivered to respective destinations on which the packages collected at the baggage collection site are loaded. It is an object of the present invention to provide a luggage delivery management device capable of realizing destination display for each package and route guidance to the destination.

[0009]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the invention of claim 1 is to load packages collected at a baggage collecting station and deliver the packages to respective destinations to be delivered. A luggage delivery management device that is mounted on a moving object to be performed and that has a system configuration linked to a navigation device that performs destination display and route guidance to the destination, wherein each luggage loaded in the moving object has A package delivery management means for managing the delivery status of the package based on the package data and the package data of each unloaded package, and a latitude corresponding to the destination of each package placed under the control of the package delivery management means Package data comprising: instruction data creating means for creating delivery instruction data including / longitude data; and data output means for passing the delivery instruction data created by the instruction data creating means to the navigation device. To destination display of the subject matter it is borne on the navigation device route guidance to the destination.

[0010] Here, the destination is, for example, the destination or destination of the package to be delivered. The destination is, for example, the location of a business office in each area where the package to be delivered is relayed. Generally, a plurality of packages are collectively wholesaled to this business office. The destination is the location of the final recipient of the package, and the final carrier of the package is individually delivered with the package carried out by the deliveryman from the business office.

The latitude / longitude data includes a postal code,
This is data in which the latitude / longitude is associated with each destination, address, etc. on a one-to-one basis.

According to the present invention, delivery instruction data including latitude / longitude data for each delivery destination is created by the instruction data creating means, and the delivery instruction data created by the instruction data creating means is output to the data output means. Therefore, the luggage delivery business can be supported by assigning the navigation device to display the destination for each package and guide the route to the destination. High efficiency can be expected.

[0013] In the invention of claim 2, the package delivery management means records the respective package data on a storage medium, and automatically creates a daily report of a delivery member based on the package data recorded on the storage medium. And

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the package delivery management means records all the package data of the package loaded on the moving body and the package unloaded from the moving body on the storage medium, and stores the recorded package data. Since the daily report of the delivery staff is automatically created using the data, the burden on the delivery staff can be remarkably reduced, and the effect of preventing the erroneous description of the daily report can be expected.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, the instruction data creating means extracts the latitude / longitude data using a destination data table every time a delivery instruction is selected.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the instruction data creation means stores the destination data table for each package placed under the control of the package delivery management means each time a delivery instruction is selected. To extract the latitude / longitude data using
Therefore, the latitude /
As a result, the delivery instruction data including the longitude data can be created accurately and in real time, it is possible to expect a dramatic increase in the efficiency of the package delivery business.

[0017]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Hereinafter, an embodiment of a package delivery management device according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing a system configuration of an embodiment of a package delivery management device according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG.
Is a system configuration interlocked with an in-vehicle navigation device 2 that displays a destination and guides a route to a destination. It is mounted on a delivery vehicle (mobile) 3 that delivers to destinations such as destinations.

Here, the destination is, for example, the location of a business office in each area where the package to be delivered is relayed. Generally, a plurality of packages are wholesaled to this business office in a lump. The destination is the location of the final recipient of the package,
The luggage carried out by the courier from the business office is individually delivered to the final recipient of the luggage.

The luggage delivery management device 1 includes a handy numeric key 13 serving also as a display 11 and an input device 12, and a card I.
/ O14 and data card 15 used as a storage medium
, A communication port 16, a control unit 17, and a destination data table 18 provided in a predetermined storage area.

The control unit 17 has a control center function of the whole system and a function as a package delivery management means.
It has a function as instruction data creation means and a function as data output means.

Here, the details of the above-mentioned functions will be described below. The function as the package delivery management means includes the package data of each package loaded on the delivery vehicle 3 and each package unloaded. This function manages the delivery status of packages based on the package data.

The function as the instruction data creating means is that each time a delivery instruction is selected by the handy keypad 13, each package placed under the control of the package delivery management means (each loaded package) ), The delivery instruction data including the latitude / longitude data for each delivery destination is stored in the destination data table 1.
8 refers to the function to create. Note that the latitude / longitude data is data in which the latitude / longitude is associated with each postal code, destination, address, and the like on a one-to-one basis.

The function as the data output means is to transmit the delivery instruction data created by the instruction data creating means via the communication port 16 to the in-vehicle navigation device 2.
The function to pass to.

Next, the operation of the luggage delivery management device 1 will be described by taking as an example the case of unloading luggage to a destination.

The package delivery management device 1 executes the loading process according to the processing flow shown in FIG. 2, and executes the unloading process according to the processing flow shown in FIG. Specifically, it is as follows.

At the time of loading at the luggage storage, the delivery staff operates the input device 12 of the handy numeric key 13 as shown in the flow of processing in FIG. 2 to hold each loaded luggage. As the package data (loading data), a product name, a quantity, and the like are input (ST201).

Thus, the loading data is created by the control unit 17 (ST202), and the created loading data is recorded on the data card 15 via the card I / O 14, and can be read out by the control unit 17 as appropriate. (ST2
03).

Next, the input device 1 of the handy key 13
Each time a delivery instruction is selected in step 2, the delivery including the latitude / longitude data for each delivery destination is performed for each package (each loaded package) placed under the control of the package delivery management means. Instruction data is created using the destination data table 18 (ST204).

When the delivery instruction data is created in this way,
A delivery instruction is displayed on the display 11 of the handy keypad 13 (ST205), and at the same time, the delivery instruction data is passed to the in-vehicle navigation device 2 through the communication port 16, and the in-vehicle navigation device 2 sends each delivery destination. The destinations are displayed collectively (ST206).

When the delivery instruction is selected by operating the input device 12 of the handy key 13 while referring to the destinations displayed in a lump (ST207), the selected information is transmitted to the in-vehicle navigation via the communication port 16. The information is passed to the device 2, and the in-vehicle navigation device 2 performs route guidance display to the selected destination (ST208).

For this reason, the delivery member can reach the destination by driving the delivery vehicle 3 according to the route guidance display to the destination on the on-vehicle navigation device 2.

When the delivery vehicle 3 arrives at the destination, a delivery instruction display relating to the destination of the package is made on the display 11 of the handy key 13 and / or the on-vehicle navigation device 2 as shown in the flow of processing shown in FIG. (ST301).

When the package is delivered to the destination, the user operates the input device 12 of the handy keypad 13 to obtain the package data (unloading data) of each unloaded package.
A product name, quantity, and the like are input (ST302).

As a result, unloading data is created by the control unit 17 (ST303), and the created unloading data is transferred to the data card (storage medium) 1 via the card I / O 14.
5 (ST304).

When the delivery is completed, the delivery member operates the luggage delivery management device 1
By operating, the package delivery management device 1
Based on the data read from the storage medium, a daily work report relating to the unloaded cargo is automatically created.

As described above, according to the luggage delivery management device 1 of the present invention, a delivery vehicle or the like that carries the luggage accumulated at the luggage accumulation place and delivers the luggage to each destination serving as a delivery destination is provided. By providing the navigation device with the destination display for each package and the route guidance to the destination for the mobile object, it is possible to support the package delivery business, and as a result, the efficiency of the package delivery business will be dramatically improved You can expect.

Further, according to the package delivery management device 1 of the present invention, the control unit 17 records all the package data of the package loaded on the mobile unit and the package unloaded from the mobile unit on the storage medium, Since the daily work report of the delivery staff is automatically created using the recorded package data, the burden on the delivery staff can be remarkably reduced, and the effect of preventing erroneous descriptions in the daily report is also expected. can do.

Moreover, the package delivery management device 1 according to the present invention
According to the method, the control unit 17 extracts the latitude / longitude data associated with each package from the destination data table every time the delivery instruction is selected. Therefore, the latitude / longitude of each delivery destination is accordingly determined. As a result, delivery instruction data including data can be created accurately and in real time, it is possible to expect a dramatic increase in the efficiency of package delivery operations.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, but may be modified in any other manner by appropriately modifying the technical idea described in the claims without departing from the scope of the invention. Can be implemented.

That is, for example, in the present embodiment, the operation has been described by taking as an example the case of unloading a package to a destination, but it is needless to say that the present invention is also applicable to the case of unloading a package to a destination.

[0043]

As described above in detail, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the destination display for each package and the route guidance to the destination are assigned to the navigation device to support the package delivery business. As a result, it is expected that the efficiency of the package delivery business will be dramatically improved.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, in addition to remarkably reducing the burden on the delivery staff, the effect of preventing erroneous descriptions in the daily report can be expected.

According to the third aspect of the invention, the delivery instruction data including the latitude / longitude data for each destination of each loaded package can be created accurately and in real time. It has an extremely excellent effect that a dramatic increase in efficiency can be expected.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing a system configuration of a package delivery management device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a flow of a loading process in the package delivery management device of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a flow of an unloading process in the package delivery management device of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a functional block diagram illustrating a system configuration of a conventional package delivery management device.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a flow of a loading process in a conventional package delivery management device.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a flow of an unloading process in the conventional package delivery management device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 luggage delivery management device 2 in-vehicle navigation device 3 delivery vehicle (mobile) 11 display 12 input device 13 handy keypad 14 card I / O 15 data card (storage medium) 16 communication port 17 control unit 18 destination data table

Claims (3)

[Claims] The present invention is mounted on a moving body for carrying packages delivered to respective destinations to be loaded with the packages collected at the baggage collection station, and displays destinations and guides routes to the destinations. A luggage delivery management device having a system configuration linked to a navigation device to perform, wherein the luggage delivery status is determined by the luggage data of each luggage loaded on the moving object and the luggage data of each unloaded luggage. Package delivery management means for managing; command data creation means for creating delivery command data including latitude / longitude data corresponding to the destination of each package placed under the control of the package delivery management means; Data output means for passing the delivery instruction data created by the creation means to the navigation device, and displaying the destination for each package and guiding the route to the destination to the navigation device. Package delivery management apparatus according to claim possible to only have. 2. The package delivery management means records each of the package data on a storage medium, and automatically creates a daily report of a delivery member based on the package data recorded on the storage medium. The package delivery management device according to 1. 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the instruction data creating unit extracts the latitude / longitude data using a destination data table every time a delivery instruction is selected. The package delivery management device according to claim 1.