JP2003178395A - Boarding time reporting method and system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a person to know the arrival of a shuttle service most suitable for the arrival at a designation in a desired time, in a public traffic such as shuttle bus, and board it without a wasteful waiting time. <P>SOLUTION: A central system 2 receives the operation state from a shuttle bus 1 under operation, and predicts the operation of all shuttle services from this and the operation result accumulated in the past. A proper shuttle service is calculated every user by the operation prediction and the user data 52 preliminarily registered by a user, and the arrival thereof is reported to the user. The user acquires this information through a user terminal 4, and prepares to board it, whereby he can board the proper shuttle service without any wasteful waiting time. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method and system for predicting and notifying a time when a passenger should get on a transportation means such as a route bus whose operation status changes according to traffic congestion and other surrounding environment.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An example of a conventional public transportation management system is
It is described in JP-A-8-202992.

This conventional system is capable of grasping the current location, receives the current location information from the route bus having communication means with the central system, and determines the road condition from the accumulated data, A central system that has means for estimating the time required to reach each bus stop for each route bus, a means for notifying each bus stop of the required time information, and the latest operating status of the route bus by receiving information from the central system. It consists of a displayable stop.

[0004]

However, in the conventional system, in the situation where the user is at the stop, it is possible to know when the route bus arriving next arrives at the stop, but It was not possible to know which route bus to take to arrive at the stop in the desired time.

Therefore, when the user arrives at the stop, the next flight may not be able to arrive at the desired time, or a waiting time may occur before the flight arrives at the desired time.

[0006] The reason is that it is possible to know the arrival time of the route bus arriving next time and the arrival time at the stop where the user disembarks by going to the stop where the user gets on, but the user leaves the house. This is because it is not possible to identify the flight that arrives at the stop you want to get off at the desired time and leave the house according to the operating status of the flight.

The object of the present invention is to register when the user has to leave the house in order to arrive at the destination in time by registering the stop where the user gets off and the desired arrival time in advance. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method and system by which the user can easily know the timing when the user has to depart by notifying the terminal of the user.

[0008]

According to the present invention, each vehicle detects its current location, and the arrival time at each point of each vehicle is predicted based on the current location and operation record data of each vehicle. And a step of inputting a boarding point, a boarding point and a boarding time specified by the user, based on the boarding point, the boarding point and the boarding time and the arrival time at each point of each vehicle, at the boarding time. A boarding characterized in that it comprises a step of predicting a boarding time which is a time when a vehicle arriving at the getting-off point at the nearest time arrives at the boarding point, and a step of notifying the user of the boarding time. A time notification method is provided.

In the above boarding time notification method, the time closest to the boarding time may be selected from a time earlier than the boarding time.

In the above boarding time notification method, the boarding time may be notified at a time earlier than the boarding time specified by the user.

[0011]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Referring to FIG. 1, there is shown a public transportation management system as an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, the route bus 1 sequentially detects the current position by the current position detection means 11, and transmits the obtained information for identifying the route bus 1 and the detected current position to the central system 2 by the operation status transmission means 12. To do. In addition, although only one route bus 1 is illustrated in FIG. 1, it is actually all route buses in a certain business district, for example.

The central system 2 has an operation status receiving means 21.
By the information, the information which can identify the route bus 1 from the route bus 1 in operation and its current position are received, and the operation record data is generated based on the received contents. The operation record data is for each route, and is statistically processed by factors such as time zone, day of week, weekday / holiday, and whether it is 50 days.

In the central system 2, the operation status predicting means 23 predicts the arrival time at each transit stop or end point for each route bus based on the present location and the operation record data. Your current location is ever-changing, so
The predicted arrival time is also updated every moment. For example, when the required transit time for a certain section is longer than expected, the estimated arrival time is updated and delayed after passing the section.

The predicted arrival time of each route bus is transmitted by the operation prediction transmitting means 24 to each stop where each route bus stops.

From the predicted arrival time received by the operation prediction receiving means 31, the stop 3 predicts the arrival time of the next arriving flight and the next arriving flight, and the arrival of the flight to another stop. The estimated arrival time is displayed on the display means 32. Although only one stop is shown in the example of FIG. 1, there are actually many stops.

In addition, the central system 2 indicates how much ahead of the arrival time at the stop and the desired stop time at the stop, the stop at which the user inputs the user information setting means 25, or the time at which the bus stops. Whether the information should be notified earlier in time, or the information of the user terminal 4 which is the notification destination is stored in the user data 52 by the user information management means 26. The user information setting means 25 is, for example, a personal computer or a mobile terminal connected to the central system 2 via the Internet.

The message preparing means 27, for each user, is the stop at which the passenger is getting off, the desired stop time and the boarding stop, and the arrival time at each stop of each route bus predicted from the current position and operation record data of each route bus. Based on
The boarding time, which is the time when the route bus arriving at the drop-off stop arrives at the boarding stop closest to the drop-off time, is calculated. The time closest to the exit time may be selected before or after the exit time, or may be selected earlier than the exit time. Further, this designation may be input from the user information setting means 25.

The message preparing means 27 also calculates the notification time based on the boarding time and the preceding time. Since the arrival time is updated every moment, the boarding time and the notification time are also updated every moment.

Further, the message notifying means 28 sends a message to the user terminal 4 when the notification time comes. The message includes a boarding stop, a boarding time, an alighting stop, and a boarding time. The user terminal 4 is, for example,
A personal computer, a mobile terminal, or the like connected to the central system via the Internet. The user information setting means 25 and the user terminal 4 may be the same or different.

When the user terminal 4 receives the message from the central system 2, the user terminal 4 transmits the message to the user by means of the display function 42 through a screen or voice.

Next, the operation of the central system 2 shown in FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIG.

The central system 2 sequentially receives information specifying the route bus and the current location from the route bus (step 10).
1).

The received current location is recorded as an operation record (step 102).

Next, based on the operation record data created up to now, the future operation status of all the flights currently in operation is predicted (step 103).

The predicted operation status is transmitted to each stop (step 104).

In addition, using the registered user data,
A message is transmitted to the user terminal on a schedule based on the registration information (step 106).

Further, user information is received from the user (step 110) and stored in the user data 52 (step 111).

[Other Embodiments] In the central system 2, the message is sent to the user's terminal 4 at the time to send the message to the user, but the user's terminal 4 has a calculation function. The central system 2 may transmit the operation prediction data to the user terminal each time the operation prediction data is updated according to the operation status.

At this time, a user information database is provided in the user terminal 4 so that an appropriate flight can be calculated based on the stop, the desired arrival time, and the stop that the user has registered in advance, which is registered there. By doing so, it may be possible to display the number of minutes after the arrival of the flight and to notify by a means such as sound according to a preset notification schedule.

Further, the user information setting means 25 is provided in the route bus 1, the bus stop 3 and the user terminal 4, each of which is provided with an information transmitting means, and the central system 2 is provided with a receiving system. You may improve convenience.

[0032]

As described above, according to the present invention,
The following effects are exhibited.

The first effect is that the user can know the optimum flight to get on at the desired stop by the desired time.

The reason is that the optimum flight is calculated for the user from the information registered by the user in the central system and the operation status which is successively updated.

The second effect is that it is possible to know by interruption the time at which some kind of preparation must be started, for example, the time to leave the house in order to board an appropriate flight.

The reason is that the central system transmits a message to the user's terminal at an appropriate timing set in advance, and the terminal receiving the message transmits the message to the user by a voice output function or the like.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 route bus 2 Central system 3 stops 4 user terminals 5 storage devices 11 Current location detection means 12 Operation status transmission means 21 Operation status receiving means 22 Operation record accumulation means 23 Operation status prediction means 24 Operation prediction transmission means 25 User information setting means 26 User information management means 27 Message preparation means 28 Message notification means 31 Operation prediction receiving means 32 Operation prediction display means 41 Message receiving means 42 Message display means 51 Operation record data 52 User data

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A step of detecting the current position of each vehicle, a step of predicting the arrival time at each point of each vehicle based on the current position and operation record data of each vehicle, a boarding point designated by a user, Inputting an alighting point and an alighting time, and arriving at the alighting point at a time closest to the alighting time based on the boarding point, the alighting point and the alighting time, and the arrival time of each vehicle at each point A boarding time notification method comprising: a step of predicting a boarding time, which is a time when a vehicle arrives at the boarding point; and a step of notifying the user of the boarding time. 2. The boarding time notification method according to claim 1, wherein the time closest to the boarding time is selected from a time earlier than the boarding time. 3. The boarding time notification method according to claim 1, wherein the boarding time is notified at a time earlier than the boarding time designated by the user. 4. A means for each vehicle to detect its current location, a means for predicting the arrival time at each location of each vehicle based on the current location and operation record data of each vehicle, and a boarding location specified by the user, Means for inputting an alighting point and an alighting time, and arriving at the alighting point at a time closest to the alighting time based on the alighting point, the alighting point and the alighting time, and the arrival time at each point of each vehicle A boarding time notification system comprising: means for predicting a boarding time, which is a time at which a vehicle arrives at the boarding point; and means for notifying the user of the boarding time. 5. The boarding time notification system according to claim 4, wherein the time closest to the boarding time is selected from a time earlier than the boarding time. 6. The boarding time notification system according to claim 4, wherein the boarding time notification system notifies the boarding time at a time earlier than the boarding time designated by the user.