JP2002362746A - Physical distribution information service system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a physical distribution information service system allowing the transmission of positional data in less throughput amount and at less communication cost. SOLUTION: The physical distribution information service system for transporting articles to be delivered according to transportation request from customers with a transporting vehicle while seizing the current position of the transporting vehicle with positional data being received at a center acquires the positional data from the transporting vehicle at certain intervals for GPS data with a GPS receiver and transmits the GPS data to the center in constant cycles. Furthermore, when the transporting vehicle arrives within a delivery destination recognizable radius straight distant to a delivery destination, data for completing loading and unloading is transmitted.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a physical distribution information service system, and more particularly, to a physical distribution information service system in which position information data for notifying the current position of a transport vehicle is transmitted at regular intervals.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art It is difficult for a carrier to know where he / she is currently running when he / she departs from an office when loading and delivering a package to a transport vehicle. Therefore, in recent years, a GPS receiver is mounted on a transport vehicle, the current position of the transport vehicle is calculated using a GPS satellite, and it is possible to grasp where the transport vehicle is traveling on a map. I have.

[0003]

In order to ascertain the current position of such a transportation vehicle, there is a case where polling from a business establishment is performed.
The receiver periodically receives a GPS signal from a GPS satellite, calculates a current position from the GPS signal, and transmits the current position data to the business site as position data. That is, the transport vehicle transmits the position signal from the GPS satellite to the office immediately after receiving the position signal.

[0004] For this reason, in the case of a transportation vehicle that receives GPS signals from GPS satellites in units of several seconds, it is transmitted every time a GPS signal is received from GPS satellites.
Communication costs are incurred each time, and in the case of a carrier who owns many transport vehicles, there is a problem that the communication costs become enormous. Further, if the transmission processing is performed every time a GPS signal is received from a GPS satellite, there is a problem that the processing amount increases.

An object of the present invention is to provide a physical distribution information service system capable of transmitting position data with a reduced processing amount and reduced communication cost.

[0006]

One feature of the present invention is that:
In transporting a delivery item by a transport vehicle based on a transport request from a customer while grasping the current position of the transport vehicle by receiving the position data, transmission of the position data from the transport vehicle is performed at a fixed interval of GPS data by a GPS receiver. The GPS data is acquired every time and transmitted when the GPS data has a fixed period.

When the straight line distance between the current position and the delivery destination of the transportation vehicle is within the delivery destination recognition radius, the cargo
When the loading / unloading is completed, the loading / unloading complete data is transmitted. If the ACK signal is not returned after transmitting the position data from the transport vehicle, it is recognized as a connection failure and retransmitted. To do.

When the straight-line distance of the transport vehicle to the delivery destination is within the delivery destination recognition radius, the loading / unloading is completed and the loading / unloading completion data is transmitted.

Another feature of the present invention is that, based on a contract with a transportation company, the number and types of transportation vehicles owned by the transportation company are grasped in advance at a center, and a plurality of vehicles are transported based on a transportation request from a customer. We will arrange transportation vehicles to transport the delivery items based on the type and size of the delivery items and their destinations.
Based on the plurality of delivery destinations, the delivery procedure and the shortest travel route are calculated to create a transportation schedule, and the estimated arrival time of each delivery destination is calculated based on the transportation schedule,
Transmit to the transportation company that owns the transportation vehicle, calculate the road condition of the road on which the transportation vehicle travels based on the transmission of the position data from the transportation vehicle, and predict the arrival time of each delivery destination based on the calculated road condition If there is a change in the original estimated arrival time at each delivery destination, the newly calculated estimated arrival time is transmitted to the shipping company, and the transportation vehicle from the transportation vehicle is pre-centered on each of the delivery destinations. Based on the transmission of the destination arrival data transmitted when the vehicle arrives within the set specified range, it is determined that the delivery to the destination has been completed.

[0010] The road condition of the traveling road of the transport vehicle calculated based on the transmission of the position data from the transport vehicle is as follows:
It is provided to other transportation vehicles as road information.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 shows an overall configuration for implementing a physical distribution information service system and a relation of transmission and reception of information. FIG. 2 shows a specific configuration of the physical distribution information service system shown in FIG. ing.

In FIG. 1, a service management company 40 provides a transportation service to a transportation user 30. In addition, the service management company 40 has a business contract with the carrier 10 for the transport information to be provided to the transport user 30.

The transport company 10 stores information for transportation (types and quantities of transport vehicles) in a service management company 40.
Send to A public line may be used as the sending method. Alternatively, a satellite may be used. Carrier 1 as an example
As a method for easily transmitting the information on the transportation from 0 to the service management company 40, the information on the transportation available from the carrier 10 is transmitted to the communication relay medium 5 such as a satellite using the line 2 and the information on the transportation is received. Communication relay medium 5
Via the line 3 to the service management company 40. The carrier 10 provides a transportation service by contract with a service management company 40. The service management company 40 uses the PC 3 of the transportation user 30
1. The transport company 10 arranges a transport service for delivering a transported item to a desired destination based on a transport request using a terminal device such as the portable terminal 32.

More specifically, as shown in FIG. 2, the carrier 10 is a carrier for carrying luggage, a taxi company for carrying people, a sightseeing tour company for carrying groups on sightseeing trips, or the like. is there. In addition, as shown in FIG.
Is, for example, a headquarters management department or a sales office that has jurisdiction over a certain area. This carrier 10
Has a management PC, and can communicate with the transport user 30 and the service management company 40 via the Internet. The transport company 10 usually has a plurality of transport vehicles 20 in the kitchen. The transport vehicle 20 has an in-vehicle device 21. The on-vehicle device 21 of the transport vehicle 20 has a configuration as shown in FIG. That is, the in-vehicle device 21
Has a CPU 22, and all operations are performed by the CPU 22. The transmission / reception device 23 is connected to the CPU 22 via a bus line. The transmission / reception device 23 receives data transmitted from the service management company 40 via the antenna 24. Also, the CPU 22 has an I / O via a bus line.
The I / O 25 has a display 26 for displaying data received from the service management company 40, a speed sensor, a vehicle speed sensor, a rainfall sensor, an illuminance sensor, an engine temperature sensor, an engine rotation sensor, Various sensors 27 such as an illumination / fog lamp lighting sensor and an indoor temperature sensor are connected. Further, a GPS receiver 28 is connected to the CPU 22 via a bus line, and the GPS receiver 28 can receive a position signal from the GPS satellite 7 from the antenna 29 using the GPS line 8. ing. In-vehicle terminals (CP
U) is configured such that a CF memory card 70 can be inserted. When the CF memory card 70 is used, a memory card reader is connected to the management PC of the carrier 10.

The service management company 40 has a processing device having a configuration as shown in FIG. That is, the processing device 41 has a CPU 42, and all operations are performed by the CPU 42. In this CPU 42,
Man-machine interface 43 via bus line
However, storage devices as various databases are connected via a bus line. The man-machine interface 43 performs processing (data writing, reading, and the like) of the processing device 41. Reference numeral 44 denotes an antenna for communicating with the PC 31 or the portable terminal 32 owned by the transport user 30 or the carrier 10 via the communication carrier 50. In the storage device, a database 45 of transport service members, a transporter and owned transport vehicle database 46, a delivery service area database 47 for each branch / office of the transporter, a probe information (road information) delivery destination surrounding environment information database 48, there is a delivery result (delivery progress) database 49.

3 to 6 show an embodiment of the physical distribution information service system shown in FIG. 3 to 6, the service management company 40 communicates with the carrier 10,
A business contract is concluded with the communication carrier 50 in order to use the public line, satellite, and the like of the communication carrier 50 for communication with the transportation vehicle 20 and communication with the transportation use member 30 (10).
0). Further, the service management company 40 makes a business contract with a carrier (a carrier, a taxi company, a tourist company, etc.) 10 for providing a transport service (102). Accordingly, the carrier 10 instructs the service management company 40 to provide the transport vehicles (truck, taxi passenger car,
(104). When data of transport vehicles (truck, taxi passenger car, bus, etc.) is provided from the transport company 10, the service management company 4
No. 0 receives (108) the position information of the transport vehicle transmitted from the in-vehicle equipment of each transport vehicle (truck, taxi passenger car, bus, etc.) at a fixed period via the communication carrier 50 (106) (108). The position status of each transport vehicle (truck, taxi passenger car, bus, etc.) is grasped based on the positional information of the transport vehicle transmitted from the on-board equipment of each transport vehicle (truck, taxi passenger car, bus, etc.) at regular intervals. (110).

The service management company 40 receives an application for a transport member from a person who wants to receive the transport service provided by the transport company 10 (112). Those who wish to receive this transportation service should be a trading company or retailer if the transportation service to be used is for shipping goods, a taxi company if the transportation service to be used is a taxi, or a group if the transportation service to be used is a group. If it is a trip, it is a tourist travel agency. When there is a member application of the transportation user, the service management company 40 records the necessary personal data of the member applicant, performs member registration processing of the transportation user, and obtains an authentication number (ID code number) as a member number. Is specified, and a card as a membership card (for example, an ID card or an IC card in which an IC chip is embedded in the card and the information can be input and the input information can be read) is created (114), and the transportation user Membership notification (for example,
An ID card is issued) (116). This card has been described as an IC card here. However, if the card is a medium that can store personal information and use information for identifying a member such as an ID card, an IC card, and a multi-card, and is a portable form, Anything is fine.

The transportation member 3 registered in this way
0 can apply for a transportation request to the service management company 40 at any time. In the application for the transportation request,
This is performed by using the PC 31 or the portable terminal 32 of the transportation use member 30 (118). When there is an application for a transport request from the transport member 30, the service management company 40 notifies the transport company 10 of the transport request application from the transport member 30 (120). The notification to the carrier 10 is actually made via the communication carrier 50. The notice of the transportation request application from the transportation use member 30 is transmitted to the service management company 40.
The carrier 10 received from the company transmits the transport data based on the transport request from the transport user 30 to the service management company 40 (122). The transmission to the service management company 40 is actually performed via the communication carrier 50. When the transport data is transmitted based on the transport request from the transport user 30, the service management company 40 arranges transport vehicles based on the transport data, loads the cargo on each transport vehicle,
Based on the road information, a transportation plan is made such as determination of the transportation route of each transportation vehicle to the destination (124). The transportation plan drafted by the service management company 40 is transmitted to the transportation company 10 and presented (126). The presented transportation plan drafted by the service management company 40 is examined by the carrier 10 and the carrier 10 sends an acknowledgment to the service management company 40 (12).
8). The presentation of the transportation plan drafted by the service management company 40 and the exchange of approval are actually performed via the communication carrier 50.

When the transport plan drafted by the service management company 40 is approved by the transport company 10, the respective transport plans are passed through the communication carrier 50 (13).
0), and transmitted to each transport vehicle 20 (132). In the transportation vehicle 20 that has received the transportation plan from the service management company 40, input of position data of each delivery destination,
The specific area of each delivery destination is input (134). The input of the location data of each destination is the latitude and longitude specifying the location of each destination, and the input of the specific area of each destination is the range specified by a circle centered on each destination. Input from the management company 40. The service management company 40 calculates the estimated arrival time of each transportation vehicle 20 at each delivery destination based on the planned transportation plan, and calculates the estimated arrival time of each transportation vehicle 20 at each delivery destination by a communication carrier. 50
(136), and then contact the carrier 10 (13).
8). When the service management company 40 receives notification of the estimated time of arrival at each delivery destination, the carrier 10 determines the estimated time of arrival at each delivery destination that has requested the transportation via the communication carrier 50 (140). Contact the member 30 (1
42).

Each transport vehicle 20 loaded with the objects to be delivered departs from the business office to each destination. From each of the transport vehicles 20, the GPS receiver 28 receives position signals from a plurality of GPS satellites at regular intervals via an antenna 29, calculates the vehicle position by the CPU 22, and stores the vehicle position in a memory built in the CPU 22. Keep it. At the same time, it is determined whether or not the position signal captured by the GPS receiver 28 has a fixed period. In the case of the fixed period, when a predetermined number of position data stored in the memory built in the CPU 22 is stored. Only the position data stored in the memory is transmitted to the service management company 40 from the antenna 24 via the communication carrier 50 using the transmission / reception device 23 of each transportation vehicle 20 (144) (1).
46). Upon receiving the position data from each of the transport vehicles 20 at regular intervals, the service management company 40 analyzes the position data transmitted from each of the transport vehicles 20 and calculates the road conditions (congestion, traffic prohibition, etc.). (14
8). The obtained road conditions are provided to each transport vehicle 20 as road information via the communication carrier 50 (150) (152).

Further, from the service management company 40, the traffic information around the delivery destination based on the transportation plan acquired by another method is transmitted via the communication carrier 50 (154) to each transportation vehicle 20.
(156). Further, the GPS receiver 28 receives position signals from a plurality of GPS satellites at regular intervals through an antenna 29, calculates the vehicle position by the CPU 22, and stores the calculated position in a memory built in the CPU 22, It is determined every time whether or not the position signal fetched at step 28 is a fixed period, and all the position data stored in the memory at each fixed period is transmitted from the antenna 24 using the transmitting / receiving device 23 of each transport vehicle 20 from the antenna 24. The information is transmitted to the service management company 40 via the person 50 (158) (160). The position data transmitted from each transport vehicle 20 is analyzed, the position status of each transport vehicle is grasped, and the road conditions (traffic congestion, traffic prohibition, etc.) are calculated (162). Based on the obtained road conditions, the service management company 40 calculates the expected arrival time of each transportation vehicle at each destination, and calculates the estimated arrival time of each transportation vehicle at each destination via the communication carrier 50 ( 164), and transmits it to the carrier 10 (166).

Further, the transportation user 20 sends the transportation vehicle 20
When the inquiry about the estimated arrival time is made to the carrier 10 via the communication carrier 50 (168) (17).
0), the carrier 10 notifies the scheduled time of arrival of the transport vehicle 20 that has been contacted by the service management company 40 to the transport member 30 via the communication carrier 50 (172) (174). In the transporting vehicle 20 traveling in this manner, a plurality of GPs are
A position signal from the S satellite is received via the antenna 29 and C
If it is determined that the vehicle position calculated by the PU 22 has entered a specific area determined within a range specified by a circle centered on each delivery destination set in advance, the vehicle has arrived at the specific area of the delivery destination. Is detected (176). Upon detecting that the transportation vehicle 20 has arrived at the specific area of the delivery destination, it is determined that the transportation vehicle 20 has arrived at the specific area of the delivery destination.
Using the transmitting / receiving device 23 of the transportation vehicle 20, the service management company 40 is contacted (180) from the antenna 24 via the communication carrier 50 (178). Upon receiving the notification that the transportation vehicle 20 has arrived at the specific area of the delivery destination, the service management company 40 notifies the fact that the transportation vehicle 20 has arrived at the specific area of the delivery destination via the communication carrier 50 (182). ,
Contact the carrier 10 (184).

In the service management company 40,
After the transportation vehicle 20 arrives at the specific area of the delivery destination, the estimated time of arrival at the destination is calculated (186). Then, the transportation vehicle 20 arriving at the specific area of the delivery destination is processed as if it has finished transporting to the delivery destination (188). Even after the vehicle 20 arrives at a specific destination area, the GPS receiver 28 receives position signals from a plurality of GPS satellites at regular intervals via the antenna 29 and calculates the vehicle position by the CPU 22. , Is stored in a memory built in the CPU 22, and it is determined whether or not the position signal fetched by the GPS receiver 28 has a fixed period for each fetch, and all of the position data stored in the memory for each fixed period is determined. Then, the data is transmitted from the antenna 24 to the service management company 40 via the communication carrier 50 using the transmitting / receiving device 23 of each transportation vehicle 20 (190) (192). Upon receiving the position data from the transport vehicle 20, the service management company 40 calculates the shortest transport route to the next destination and calculates the estimated time of arrival at the next destination (194). The shortest transport route to the next delivery destination calculated by the service management company 40 is notified to each transport vehicle 20 via the communication carrier 50 (196) (198). Further, the estimated time of arrival at the next delivery destination calculated by the service management company 40 is notified to the carrier 10 via the communication carrier 50 (200) (202).

The transportation member 20 sends the transportation vehicle 20
When the inquiry about the estimated arrival time is made to the carrier 10 via the communication carrier 50 (204) (20)
6) The carrier 10 notifies the scheduled time of arrival of the transport vehicle 20 to the next delivery destination, which has been notified by the service management company 40, to the transport member 30 via the communication carrier 50 (208). (210). In the transporting vehicle 20 traveling in this manner, the GPS receiver 28 receives position signals from a plurality of GPS satellites at regular intervals through the antenna 29, and the vehicle position calculated by the CPU 22 is the next preset vehicle position. If it is determined that the vehicle has entered the specific area determined by the area specified by the circle centered on the delivery destination,
It detects that the vehicle has arrived at the next specific area of the destination (212). When it is detected that the transportation vehicle 20 has arrived at the specific area of the next delivery destination, it is determined that the transportation vehicle 20 has arrived at the specific area of the next delivery destination by using the transmission / reception device 23 of the transportation vehicle 20 and the communication company 50 from the antenna 24. (214), the service management company 40 is contacted (21).
6). Upon receiving the notification that the transport vehicle 20 has arrived at the next specific area of the delivery destination, the service management company 40
Communicates that the transportation vehicle 20 has arrived at the specific area of the next delivery destination via the carrier 50 (218), and
Call 0 (220).

When the delivery is made in this manner, the service management company 40 stores the delivery result of the transport vehicle 20 as management data in the delivery result database 49 of the processing device 41 of the service management company 40 (222). Further, in the transport company 10 that has been notified that the transport vehicle 20 has arrived at the specific area of the delivery destination, the transport vehicle 20 that has arrived at the specific area of the next destination has finished transporting to the next destination. (224). By such repetition, the loaded luggage is delivered. When the delivery of all the loaded luggage is completed, the transporter 10 determines, if there is a pickup luggage that has been requested to be transported around the final destination of the transport vehicle 20, the delivery target that has received the transport request near the final destination. A request for collection of goods is made via the communication carrier 50 (22
6), to the service management company 40 (228). Upon receiving a request from the carrier 10 to pick up a delivery target that has been requested to be transported in the vicinity of the final delivery destination, the service management company 40 transmits the signal to the transmitting / receiving device from the antenna 24 via the communication company 50 (230). 23 and contact the transport vehicle 20 (232). When the items to be delivered are collected based on a request for collection from the service management company 40, the service management company 40 is sent to the service management company 40 via the communication company 50 from the antenna 24 using the transmission / reception device 23 of the transportation vehicle 20 (234). Transmit (236).

Similarly, when there is an application for a transportation request from the registered transportation user 30 to the service management company 40 using the PC 31 or the portable terminal 32 of the transportation user 30 (238), the service management company 40 Notifies the transportation company 10 of the transportation request application from the transportation use member 30 (240). The notification to the carrier 10 is actually made via the communication carrier 50. This transportation use member 3
The transport company 10 that has received the notification of the application for the transport request from the service management company 40 from the service management company 40 transmits the transport data based on the transport request from the transport user 30 to the service management company 4.
0 (242). The transmission to the service management company 40 is actually performed via the communication carrier 50. When the transport data is transmitted based on the transport request from the transport user 30, the service management company 40 arranges transport vehicles based on the transport data, loads each transport vehicle, and determines each transport based on road information. A transportation plan is made such as determination of the transportation route to the delivery destination of the vehicle (244). Thereafter, the same operation as described above is performed.

Next, a member registration processing flow of the transportation user 30 who wishes to provide a transportation service based on an application for membership registration will be described with reference to FIG.

In the figure, a person who wishes to provide the transport service of the transport company 10 (transportation member 30) needs to register as a member with the service management company 40. In step 302, a person who wishes to register as a member of the service management company 40 (transportation member 30) calls the service management company 40 using terminal devices such as the PC 31 and the portable terminal 32. When a person who wants to register as a member calls the service management company 40 in step 302 (accesses), in step 304 the service management company 4
When a response of "0" is made, the menu is transmitted to the person who wishes to register as a member (the transportation member 30).

As a result, a message screen of "New member registration?" As shown in FIG. 17 is displayed on terminal devices such as the PC 31 and the portable terminal 32 on the side of the person who wishes to register as a member (transportation member 30). The person who wishes to register as a member (transportation member 30) displays "N" on the message screen shown in FIG.
When "O" is selected (clicked), this flow ends. In the message screen shown in FIG.
When "S" is selected (clicked), the service management company 40
A member who wishes to register as a member (transportation member 30) will apply for membership registration.

The application for member registration from the person who wishes to register as a member (the transportation member 30) to the service management company 40 is transmitted to the service management company 40. Upon receiving an application for membership registration from a person who wishes to register as a member (transportation member 30), the service management company 40 sends a request to the member who wishes to register as a member (transportation member 30) as shown in FIG. Input necessary information for member registration, user name (corporate name), address, date of birth (age), telephone number, contact information, business scale, other (frequency of use, bank account name), etc. Send screen display data. Then, the person who wishes to register as a member (transportation member 30) is referred to Step 30.
In step 6, the screen display data from the service management company 40 is received, and in step 308, input items necessary for member registration as shown in FIG. 18 transmitted from the service management company 40 are input. The input items necessary for the member registration are transmitted to the service management company 40 and registered as a transportation commission member in the service management company 40. That is, in the service management company 40, the member registration is input (the member number is given),
A member registration card 60 as shown in FIG. 11 is created. Further, on the service management company 40 side, input items necessary for member registration as a transport use member are stored in the transport service member database 45 shown in FIG. To the member who wishes to register as a member (transportation member 30)
D code is assigned. When the input items necessary for the member registration and the ID code are given as the transportation use member, the service management company 40 proceeds to step 31.
0, a person who wishes to register as a member (transportation member 3
In response to 0), as shown in Fig. 19, a member registration notification indicating that the member has been registered as a transportation use member states, "You have been registered as a member. Your membership number and ID code are as follows. Member number: xxxxxx ID code: △△△△△ ". A person who wishes to register as a member of a transportation service member upon receipt of the registration notice as a transportation service member from the service management company 40 (transportation member 30).
Transmits a report that the registration notice as a member has been received to the service management company 40, and ends the processing flow. When this series of operation flows is completed, the person who wishes to register as a member can use the transportation member 30 in the service management company 40.
Becomes

Next, a processing flow on the service management company 40 side based on the subscription application of the transportation service member to the service management company 40 of the transportation use member 30 will be described with reference to FIG.

In FIG. 10, when the transport member 30 wishes to register as a member (transport consignment member) who is provided with the transport service provided by the transport company 10, the person who wishes to register the transport member is PC 31, a portable terminal. The service management company 40 is called using a terminal device such as 32. Then, in step 402, the service management company 40 responds to the call from the transportation entrustment member applicant, and transmits a message screen of “new member registration?” As shown in FIG.
If the person who wishes to register as a member (transportation member 30) selects (clicks) "YES" on the message screen shown in FIG. 17, the service management company 40 proceeds to step 40.
In step 4, an application for a transportation consignment member of a person who uses various transportation services is received. In step 404, the application for a member of the transportation consignment of the person using the various transportation services is received. In step 406, the applicant for the member of the transportation consignment is requested to enter the necessary items for member registration as shown in FIG. The screen display data for inputting the user's name (corporate name), address, date of birth (age), telephone number, contact information, business scale, and other information (frequency of use, bank account name) is transmitted.

Thereafter, in step 408, when the necessary items for member registration as shown in FIG.
0 indicates that the service management company 40
It provides the contents of various transportation services provided by and the fee for receiving the services. And the service management company 4
In step 412, 0 assigns an ID code as a transport member and assigns an ID code to a person who wishes to register as a member (transport member 30). A member who enters the necessary items for member registration as a transportation use member and assigns an ID code to a person who wishes to register as a member (transportation member 30). And a membership card will be issued. Then, in step 414, the service management company 40 notifies the transportation consignment member applicant of the completion of registration of the transportation consignment member and a notification of the identification number (ID code).

At step 414, the notification of the completion of the registration of the transportation commission member and the notification of the identification number (ID code) are made to the applicant of the transportation commission member, and at step 416, the member registration card 60 as shown in FIG. After the creation, the transportation service member database 45 shown in FIG.
It stores the input items necessary for member registration as a member who uses the transportation and registers the member, and creates management data.
When the management data is created in step 416, the position information management data of the vehicle owned by the carrier is created in step 418. That is, the position data of each transport vehicle is aggregated based on the position information transmitted from the vehicle owned by the transport company. Then, in step 420, the service management company 40 creates a database of transport service members and a database of transport vehicles.

Next, the processing flow between the service management company 40 and the carrier 10 which provides the transportation service is shown in FIG.
This will be described with reference to FIG.

In the figure, the service management company 40 concludes a business contract for the transportation service with the carrier 10 in step 502. The carrier 10 that has concluded the business contract for the transportation service with the service management company 40 in step 502 has a plurality of branches (or offices), and determines the transportation area under the control of the branches (or offices). If so, all branches (or all offices)
Then, the transportation area under the jurisdiction of the branch (or office) is provided to the service management company 40. All of these branches (or
When the service management company 40 receives the provision of the transportation area under the jurisdiction of all the offices) and the branch (or the office), the service management company 40
In step 504, input processing is performed for all of these branches (or all business establishments) and the transportation area under the jurisdiction of the branch (or business establishment). All branches (or all offices)
Then, the input in the service management company 40 of the transport area under the jurisdiction of the branch (or business office) is performed in the delivery service area database 47 for each branch / business office of the carrier shown in FIG. In this step 504, when the input processing of all the branches (or all the establishments) and the transportation area under the control of the branch (or the establishment) is performed, the service management company 40 determines in step 506 that the carrier 10 The registration of all the transport vehicles to be performed is performed in the transport company and the owned transport vehicle database 46 shown in FIG.

When all the transport vehicles owned by the transport company 10 are registered in step 506, the service management company 40 proceeds to step 508, where the transport consignment member (transport use member) 20 is provided with each branch ( Or, a delivery fee is set for the transportation area under the jurisdiction of the business establishment. When the delivery charge is set in this step 508, the service management company 40 proceeds to step 510.
In step (1), the use management data of the transport area controlled by each branch (or business office) provided by the transport consignment member (transport user) 20 is created. And this step 5
When the usage management data of the transportation area is created in 10, the service management company 40 creates a database of the transportation company 10 in step 512 as shown in FIG.

As described above, the position data of all the transport vehicles 20 owned by the transport company and the transport company 10 registered in the own transport vehicle database 46 shown in FIG. 8 is grasped by the position data transmitted from the transport vehicle 20. You.

Next, a processing flow of a method of transmitting the position data of the transport vehicle 20 will be described with reference to FIG.

In the figure, in step 602, the transportation vehicle 20 receives position signals from a plurality of GPS satellites by the GPS receiver 28 of the vehicle-mounted device 21 via the antenna 29 at regular intervals (for example, every 1 second). Then, the latitude / longitude data indicating the current position of the transportation vehicle 20 is calculated. When the position data from the GPS satellite is acquired in step 602, in step 604,
The transportation vehicle 20 indicates the current position of the transportation vehicle 20 when the GPS receiver 28 of the on-vehicle device 21 receives position signals from a plurality of GPS satellites at regular intervals (for example, every second) via the antenna 29. Based on the latitude / longitude data, it is determined whether or not the transport vehicle 20 has entered a specific area which is a range specified by a circle centered on the delivery destination. That is, it is determined whether or not the straight-line distance from the position of the transport vehicle 20 to the destination, which is the destination, is smaller than the radial distance of a range specified by a circle centering on the destination. The specific area of the delivery destination is, for example, a radius of 1 k around the delivery destination.
A range close to the delivery destination is set in a range around the delivery destination such as m. If it is determined in step 604 that the transport vehicle 20 has entered the specific area, the process proceeds to step 612.

If it is determined in step 604 that the transport vehicle 20 is not in the specific area, in step 606, the GPS receiver 2 of the vehicle-mounted device 21 is determined.
8 receives the position signals from the plurality of GPS satellites via the antenna 29 at regular intervals (for example, every second), and outputs the latitude / longitude data indicating the current position of the transport vehicle 20 to the in-vehicle device 21 of the transport vehicle 20 Of the CPU 22. When the latitude / longitude data indicating the current position of the transport vehicle 20 is fetched and stored in step 606, it is determined in step 608 whether or not the position data fetched from the GPS satellite has reached a predetermined period. If it is determined in step 608 that the position data acquired from the GPS satellites has not reached the predetermined period, the process waits until the position data acquired from the GPS satellites reaches the predetermined period.

If it is determined in step 608 that the position data acquired from the GPS satellite has reached a predetermined cycle, the CPU 2 proceeds to step 610.
2 is stored in a memory incorporated in the transportation vehicle 2
It is determined whether the latitude / longitude data indicating the current position of 0 is a predetermined number of position data. This step 6
If it is determined in step 10 that the latitude / longitude data indicating the current position of the transport vehicle 20 stored in the memory built in the CPU 22 does not reach the predetermined number of position data, the process returns to step 602. Also, this step 610
In step 612, when it is determined that the latitude / longitude data indicating the current position of the transportation vehicle 20 stored in the memory built in the CPU 22 has a predetermined number of position data, the position of the transportation vehicle 20 is determined in step 612. The data is transmitted to the service management company 40 as data.

When the position data of the transport vehicle 20 is transmitted to the service management company 40 in step 612, a response signal (step 614) indicating that the position data signal has been received from the service management company 40 in response to the transmission of the position data signal. ACK signal) is returned. If there is no response signal (ACK signal) from the service management company 40, the connection has failed, and if there is a response signal (ACK signal) from the service management company 40, it means that the connection has been established. Therefore, in the case of a connection failure without a response signal (ACK signal) from the service management company 40, there is no problem with the position data itself transmitted from the transport vehicle 20.
If it is determined that the response signal (ACK signal) from the service management company 40 has not been received, in step 616, the position data of the transport vehicle 20 is transmitted to the service management company 40 again. Thereafter, in step 618, a response signal (A) indicating that the position data signal has been received from the service management company 40 in response to the retransmission of the position data signal.
CK signal) is returned. If it is determined in step 618 that the position data signal has not been received from the service management company 40 in response to the retransmission of the position data signal, the processing flow ends.

In step 618, a response signal (ACK signal) indicating that the position data signal has been received from service management company 40 in response to the retransmission of the position data signal.
If it is determined that a response signal (ACK signal) indicating that the position data signal has been received from the service management company 40 in response to the transmission of the position data signal in step 614, the process returns to step 620. The transmitting / receiving device 2 of the on-vehicle device 21 of the transportation vehicle 20
3, the road information data is stored in the probe information data storage area of the probe information / delivery destination surrounding environment information database 48 of the processing device 41 of the service management company 40 based on the position data transmitted from the antenna 24. When the road information data is stored in the probe information data storage area in step 620, a probe information (road information) database is created in step 622.

Next, a processing flow on the transportation user 30 side for a request for transportation by the transportation user 30 to the service management company 40 will be described with reference to FIG.

In the figure, the transport user 30 requests the transport to the service management company 40 using the PC 31 or the portable terminal 32 in step 702. When the transportation user 30 is a trading company, a store, or the like, the transportation request is transportation of the product. In addition, this transport user 30
However, in the case of customer service such as clubs, the request for transportation is
Carriage of customers in the hospitality business. In addition, this transport user 30
However, in the case of a travel agency, the request for transportation is the transportation of a group customer. As described above, the contents of the transportation request differ depending on the transportation purpose of the transportation user 30. Therefore, here, a description will be given of an example of delivery of a product requested by a trading company or a company that sells a specific item to a customer.

In this step 702, the transport user 3
0 makes a request for transportation to the service management company 40, in step 704, the transportation user 30
The delivery destination information is specified, and in step 706,
Enter the information of the transport target and the delivery destination. When the information of the transport target and the delivery destination are input in step 706, the transport user 30 specifies the delivery conditions of the transport target for which the transport is requested in step 708. The delivery conditions include designation of handling of the transport target, delivery date and time, and the like. The handling conditions of the object to be transported include, for example, caution for broken products such as glassware and pottery, cooling of raw materials, and prohibition of stacking. The delivery date and time is, for example, must arrive by △ / ○, designated at 10:00 the next day, and the second Saturday. In the delivery of the transport object based on the transport request, the charge differs depending on the delivery destination, the delivery date and time, and the handling condition specification of the transport object requested by the transport user 30. Therefore, the service management company 40 A delivery fee corresponding to the delivery conditions is calculated, and the delivery fee is charged to the transport user 30 for each transport object. When the delivery fee is charged from the service management company 40, the transportation user 30 proceeds to step 710
The charge of the delivery fee presented from the service management company 40 is received. In step 710, upon receiving the delivery fee bill presented by the service management company 40, the transportation user 30 receives in step 712 the establishment of a transportation contract for the transport object from the service management company 40, and in step 714 , Service management company 40
Payment of the transportation fee charged by.

Next, the processing on the service management company 40 side after receiving a transportation request from the transportation user 30 will be described with reference to the processing flow shown in FIGS.

In the figure, when a plurality of transport users 30 who wish to carry and deliver a package individually apply for a transport request, when a service management company 40 is called from the PC 31 or the portable terminal 32 of the transport user 30, The service management company 40 transmits to the transportation user 30 a message screen of “Is it an application for transportation consignment” as shown in FIG. In the message screen shown in FIG.
If the user selects (clicks) "YES", the transportation use member 30 applies to the service management company 40 for a transportation request. In the message screen shown in FIG. 20, the transport user 30 selects "YES" (clicks).
By doing so, first, in step 802, the service management company 40 individually receives an application for a transportation request from a large number of transportation users 30 who want to transport and deliver a package. Upon receiving the application for the transportation request in step 802, the service management company 40 proceeds to step 804
In step (1), each transport user 30 who has applied for a transport request is inquired about a transport target, a delivery destination, and delivery conditions. In response to the inquiry about the transport object, the delivery destination, and the delivery condition from the service management company 40, when the information on the transport object, the delivery destination, and the delivery condition is presented from each transport user 30, the service management company 40 In step 806, the information of the transport object, the delivery destination, and the delivery conditions presented by the respective transport users 30 are received. When the service management company 40 receives the information on the transported object, the delivery destination, and the delivery condition presented by the transport user 30 in step 806, the service management company 40 proceeds to step 808. Regarding the object, the branch of the carrier shown in FIG.
Based on the delivery service area stored in the delivery service area database 47 for each business office, as shown in FIG. 21, sorting of transport objects is performed for each delivery area based on each piece of delivery destination information. Then, this step 808
When sorting the transported objects for each delivery area in
In step 810, the service management company 40 drafts a transportation plan related to the delivery of the transported objects sorted for each delivery area. As shown in FIG. 22, the transportation plan is determined for each transportation vehicle (1t) with respect to the transportation object.
A car, a 2t car, a 4t car, a light van, etc.) is specified, and which transport object is loaded with which transport object (vehicle allocation) is specified. Further, as shown in FIG. 23, for each transport vehicle, the loaded transport objects are delivered in what delivery destination order, and when each transport vehicle departs and on which transport route, as shown in FIG. Planning.

When a transportation plan is made in step 810, the service management company 40 proceeds to step 812.
In step (1), the planned transportation plan is transferred to the carrier 10 that owns the transportation vehicle responsible for the delivery of the transportation object by the communication carrier 50.
To send over. The transport company 10 that has received the transmission of the planned transportation plan notifies the service management company 40 of the approval of the transportation plan if there is no problem in the transportation plan.
When the transportation company 10 is notified of the consent of the transportation plan, the service management company 40 obtains the consent of the transportation plan from the transportation company 10 in step 814. Then, the service management company 40 calculates the estimated time of arrival of each transport vehicle at each destination, and calculates the result at step 816.
, The information is transmitted to the carrier 10. In calculating the estimated time of arrival of each transportation vehicle at each destination,
Each piece of road information (traffic congestion information, road surface information, traversable vehicle information, transit time information, etc.) stored in the probe information (road information) and delivery destination surrounding environment information database 48 of the service management company 40 shown in FIG. This is done using the result of comprehensive analysis of weather information. When the estimated time of arrival of each transportation vehicle at each delivery destination is transmitted to the carrier 10 in this step 816, the service management company 40 transmits each transportation vehicle to each transportation vehicle based on the planned transportation plan in step 818. A delivery slip which lists a transport object loaded by the transport vehicle, a delivery destination of the transport object, a delivery condition of the transport object, a transport route, and the like is transmitted. Each of the transport vehicles 20 that has received the delivery slips delivers according to the delivery slips.

In this step 818, each transport vehicle 2
When the delivery slip is transmitted to the delivery vehicles 0 and each transport vehicle 20 starts delivery according to the delivery slip, the service management company 40 receives the position information transmitted from each transport vehicle 20 at regular intervals in step 820. The position information transmitted from each transportation vehicle 20 at a fixed period is stored in the probe information (road information) / delivery destination surrounding environment information database 48 of the service management company 40 shown in FIG. In step 820, when the position information transmitted from each transport vehicle 20 at regular intervals is received, the service management company 4
In step 822, on the basis of the position information received from each transport vehicle 20, 0 is analyzed for road information on which each transport vehicle 20 travels for each reception. This step 8
After analyzing the road information on which each transportation vehicle 20 travels at 22, the service management company 40 calculates the shortest route to the delivery destination of each transportation vehicle 20 based on the analyzed position information at step 824, This is transmitted to each transport vehicle 20. Therefore, a list showing the travel route is given to each transport vehicle 20 at the start of transport, but traveling on the originally planned delivery route based on the road conditions does not always enable the delivery at the earliest. In each case, calculating the delivery route according to the road condition is the shortest route to the delivery destination.

When the shortest route to each transport vehicle 20 is transmitted to each transport vehicle 20 based on the location information obtained by analyzing the shortest route to the delivery destination of each transport vehicle 20 based on the location information analyzed in step 824, In step 826, the service management company 40 transmits the analyzed position information to each transport vehicle 20 traveling on the corresponding road.
To provide. When the delivery route is changed or the originally planned delivery destination is changed in this way, FIG.
A selection screen as shown in A of FIG. A in FIG.
When "delivery change instruction" is selected in accordance with the screen display shown in FIG. 24, a delivery change list screen as shown in FIG. 24B is displayed. A delivery destination for which delivery is to be changed is selected from the delivery change list screen shown in FIG. 24B (display of black and white inversion, hatching, etc. on the screen).
OK (press the "OK" button). Then, as shown in FIG. 24C, the detailed data of the changed delivery destination is displayed, and the detailed data is transmitted. The screen shown in FIG. 24C shows a case where the delivery destination has been changed. However, when the delivery route has been changed, the changed delivery destination is used instead of the detailed data of the changed delivery destination. Transmit the map data indicating the route.

Based on the position information received from each transport vehicle 20, the service management company 40 determines from the result of analysis of the road information on which each transport vehicle 20 travels each time it is received that each transport vehicle 20 arrives at the delivery destination. Calculate the scheduled time. Then, the service management company 40 proceeds to step 828
In the above, the calculated estimated time of arrival of each transportation vehicle 20 at the delivery destination is compared with the estimated time of arrival of each transportation vehicle 20 at the delivery destination calculated at the start of delivery (at the time of departure of each transportation vehicle 20), It is determined whether or not there is a change in the estimated time of arrival of each transport vehicle 20 at the delivery destination calculated at the start of delivery (when each transport vehicle 20 departs).

In this step 828, each transport vehicle 20 calculated at the start of delivery (at the time of departure of each transport vehicle 20)
If it is determined that there is a change in the estimated time of arrival at
In step 830, the service management company 40 transmits the changed estimated arrival time of each transport vehicle 20 to the delivery destination to the transport company 10. In this step 830, the changed estimated time of arrival of each transport vehicle 20 at the delivery destination is transmitted to the carrier 10 or each calculated at the start of delivery (at the time of departure of each transport vehicle 20) in step 828. If it is determined that there is no change in the scheduled arrival time of the transportation vehicles 20 at the delivery destination, the management is performed based on the estimated arrival times of the respective transportation vehicles 20 at the destination.

Thereafter, when the transport vehicle 20 travels and arrives at a specific area set by a circle centered on the destination, the transport vehicle 20 informs that the transport vehicle 20 has arrived at the specific area of the destination. A signal to be notified (specifically, a position information signal) is transmitted to the service management company 40. When a signal indicating that the vehicle has arrived at a specific destination area is transmitted from the transport vehicle 20, the service management company 4
In step 832, 0 receives a signal transmitted from the transportation vehicle 20, which indicates that the vehicle has arrived at a specific destination area. In step 832, when the signal transmitted from the transport vehicle 20 indicating that the vehicle has arrived at the specified destination area is received, the service management company 40
In, based on the position information received from the transportation vehicle 20, the estimated arrival time at the delivery destination of the transportation vehicle 20 is calculated from the analysis result of the road information on which the transportation vehicle 20 travels. Then, the service management company 40 determines in step 834
, The estimated time of arrival of the transportation vehicle 20 at the delivery destination is transmitted to the carrier 10. This step 834
After transmitting the estimated time of arrival to the delivery destination of the transportation vehicle 20, the transportation vehicle 20 travels and arrives at the destination. From the transportation vehicle 20, it is notified that the transportation vehicle 20 has arrived at the destination. A notification signal (specifically, a position information signal) is transmitted to the service management company 40. When a signal (specifically, a position information signal) indicating that the vehicle has arrived at the delivery destination transmitted from the transport vehicle 20 is transmitted, the service management company 40 determines in step 836 that the transport vehicle 20 It detects that it has arrived. When detecting that the transport vehicle 20 has arrived at the destination in step 836, the service management company 40 determines in step 838 that the loading and unloading of the package has been completed at the destination.

If it is determined in step 838 that the loading / unloading of the package is completed at the delivery destination, it is determined in step 840 whether there is a new delivery request around the delivery destination where delivery has been completed. If it is determined in step 840 that there is no new delivery request for the delivery vehicle 20 around the delivery destination where delivery has been completed, the process proceeds to step 850. If it is determined in step 840 that there is a new delivery request near the delivery destination for which delivery has been completed, step 8
At 42, the delivery vehicle 20 is instructed to go to the delivery request destination and load the delivery request (new pickup). The instruction data for instructing new delivery to the delivery vehicle 20 is periodically transmitted from the carrier 10 to the service management company 40 via the communication carrier 50 regardless of whether there is an instruction for new collection. And this carrier 1
The new collection data (new collection destination list) transmitted from 0 is periodically transmitted from the service management company 40 to the delivery vehicle 20 via the communication carrier 50.

The instruction to pick up the delivery of the new request destination in step 842 is made by transmitting an instruction display screen as shown in FIG. When an instruction display screen as shown in FIG. 25A is transmitted in this step 842, the delivery person selects "new collection instruction" on the instruction display screen as shown in FIG. Check if there is an instruction for pickup. That is, when the delivery member selects “new pickup instruction” on the instruction display screen as shown in FIG.
A new pickup destination list screen as shown in FIG. The new collection destination list screen displays a customer (transportation user) ID, a customer address, a desired collection time, a collected package, and the like. The new pickup destination list screen as shown in FIG. 25B is a screen in which all the requests for delivery from the transport user (customer) 30 to the carrier 10 are periodically collected and all requests are displayed.
Therefore, the delivery request from the transport user (customer) 30 displayed on the new pickup destination list screen as shown in FIG. 25B includes a request not related to the delivery vehicle 20.

A new pickup destination list screen as shown in FIG. 25B is displayed, and in step 842, the delivery vehicle 20 is sent to the delivery request destination to load the delivery request material (new pickup). When instructed, the service management company 40 selects a new pickup destination located at the shortest position on the delivery vehicle 20 from the new pickup destination list shown in FIG. Instructions. That is, after a new pickup destination list screen as shown in FIG. 25B is displayed, for example, FIG.
When a pickup instruction is given to the second transportation user (customer) 30 shown in FIG. 25B, a new pickup destination in the second collection B shown in FIG. The data display of the person (customer) 30 is inverted as shown in FIG. The display of the new pickup destination data is shown in FIG.
By inverting the delivery vehicle 20 as shown in FIG.

In step 844, when a new collection destination located at the shortest position as the new collection destination is selected and a new collection instruction is issued, in step 846, the new collection destination is inverted in the new collection destination list shown in FIG. 25C. FIG. 25 shows the detailed information of the new pickup destination and the map data indicating the selected new pickup destination.
As shown in FIG. The detailed information of the new pickup destination data is information that is specially presented to the delivery person of the delivery vehicle 20 (for example, a pickup is determined after seeing the delivery request of the transport user 30). , Not delivered. As a result, the delivery staff on board the delivery vehicle 20 obtains a detailed map of the customer ID (name) of the new collection destination, the customer address, the desired collection time, and the collection package (collection target). Upon receiving the detailed information on the standard collection destination and the transmission of the map data, the delivery vehicle 20 moves to a new collection destination. Then, when the delivery vehicle 20 arrives at the new pickup destination and receives the collected package (object to be collected) (loading of the delivery request), the end is transmitted from the delivery vehicle 20 to the service management company 40, and the service management company At 40, it is known that the collection of the new package has been completed.

When the map data indicating the new collection destination selected in step 846 is presented, it is determined in step 848 whether the collection of the new collection destination that has presented the map data and instructed the collection is completed. I do. Then, in this step 848, the process waits until the collection of the new collection destination ends. If it is determined in step 848 that the collection of the new collection destination has been completed, step 850 is performed.
, It is determined whether or not all the deliveries of the delivery list that the delivery vehicle 20 initially delivered is responsible for have been completed. If it is determined in step 850 that all the deliveries of the originally delivered delivery list have not been completed, the process returns to step 820. If it is determined in step 850 that all the deliveries of the originally delivered delivery list have been completed, the flow ends.

These processes are common to all exchanges with the transport vehicles 20 running for delivery.

[0062]

As described above, according to the physical distribution information service system of the present invention, the transmission of the position information data for notifying the current position of the transported vehicle is performed at regular intervals, the processing amount is reduced, and the communication cost is reduced. It is possible to transmit the position data with the reduction.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an overall configuration for implementing a physical distribution information service system and information transmission / reception relationships.

FIG. 2 is a system configuration diagram showing a specific aspect relationship of the entire configuration shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of a physical distribution information service system showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram of a distribution information service system showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram of a physical distribution information service system showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a configuration diagram of a physical distribution information service system showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a configuration diagram of on-vehicle equipment of a transportation vehicle owned by a transportation company.

FIG. 8 is a configuration diagram of a processing device of a service management company.

FIG. 9 is a processing flowchart in the case of performing a member registration of a transportation use member.

FIG. 10 is a processing flowchart on the service management company side when carrying out member registration of a transportation use member.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a member registration card of a transportation use member.

FIG. 12 is a processing flowchart on the service management company side when a business contract is concluded with a carrier.

FIG. 13 is a transmission processing flowchart on the vehicle-mounted device side when transmitting position information from the vehicle-mounted device of the transport vehicle owned by the carrier.

FIG. 14 is a processing flowchart of a transportation request to a service management company of a transportation use member.

FIG. 15 is a processing flowchart on the service management company side until delivery is completed when a transportation request is received from a transportation user.

FIG. 16 is a flowchart of a process performed by the service management company until delivery is completed when a transportation request is received from a transportation user;

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing a message screen when a transportation use member registers as a member.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing an input processing screen for personal information of a transportation use member.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing a message screen of a member registration notification of a transportation use member.

FIG. 20 is a view showing a message screen for inquiring whether a transportation request is made by a transportation use member.

FIG. 21 is a diagram illustrating a system configuration in which a service management company sorts objects to be transported for each delivery area.

FIG. 22 is a diagram showing a dispatch state of each transport vehicle of a transport company in a service management company.

FIG. 23 is a diagram showing a transportation plan prepared for each transportation vehicle in the service management company.

FIG. 24 is a diagram showing an instruction screen for transmitting new pickup instruction information.

FIG. 25 is a diagram showing an instruction screen for transmitting delivery change instruction information.

[Explanation of symbols]

 7 …………… GPS satellite 10 ………………… Carrier 20 ………………… Carrier vehicle 30 ………… 40 Service management company 50 Communication carrier

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Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A logistics information service system for transporting a delivery based on a transportation request from a customer while grasping the current position of the transportation vehicle by receiving position data at a center by the transportation vehicle, wherein Wherein the position data is acquired at regular intervals of GPS data by a GPS receiver, and the GPS data is transmitted to the center at regular intervals. 2. A logistics information service system for transporting a delivery item based on a transport request from a customer while grasping the current position of the transport vehicle by receiving the position data at a center by the transport vehicle. When the linear distance to the delivery destination is within the delivery destination recognition radius,
A logistics information service system wherein current position data indicating that the transportation vehicle has arrived within a delivery destination recognition radius in a straight distance is transmitted to a center. 3. In the physical distribution information service system according to claim 2, in transmitting the position data from the transport vehicle, if no ACK signal is returned after transmitting the position data, it is recognized that the connection has failed. A logistics information service system characterized by resending. 4. A logistics information service system for transporting a delivery based on a transport request from a customer while ascertaining the current position of the transport vehicle by receiving the position data by the transport vehicle, wherein the transport vehicle is located in a straight line up to the delivery destination. A logistics information service system characterized in that when the distance is within the delivery destination recognition radius, the loading / unloading is completed and the loading / unloading completion data is transmitted to the center. 5. Based on a contract with a transportation company, the number and type of transportation vehicles owned by the transportation company are grasped in advance, and the types and sizes of a plurality of delivery items to be transported based on a transportation request from a customer are determined. Arrange a transportation vehicle that transports the delivery item based on the delivery destination, calculate a delivery procedure and a shortest travel route based on the plurality of delivery destinations, create a transportation schedule, and based on the transportation schedule, The estimated arrival time of the delivery destination is calculated, transmitted to the transportation company that owns the transportation vehicle, the road condition of the traveling road of the transportation vehicle is calculated based on the transmission of the position data from the transportation vehicle, and the calculated road is calculated. Predicting and calculating the arrival time of each delivery destination based on the situation, if there is a change in the original estimated arrival time at each of the destinations, transmit the newly calculated estimated arrival time to the shipping company, When the delivery vehicle from the delivery vehicle arrives within a predetermined range centered on each of the delivery destinations, and the delivery to the delivery destination is completed based on the transmission of the delivery destination arrival data, the processing is performed. A logistics information service system characterized by: 6. The physical distribution information service system according to claim 5, wherein the road condition of the traveling road of the transportation vehicle calculated based on the transmission of the position data from the transportation vehicle is transmitted to other transportation vehicles as road information. A logistics information service system that is designed to be provided.