JP2006277593A - Event information providing system, business vehicle device and vehicle information management center device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To give event information for enhancing the acquisition of users around the vehicle in a particular state to crew members in business vehicles. <P>SOLUTION: This business vehicle device transmits location information representing the current location of a self-vehicle and business state information representing the current business state to this vehicle information management center and displays received event information, and the vehicle information management center receives, updates and stores for management the location information and he business state information, retrieves various event information to be held within a business section from the Internet at a fixed cycle, extracts event names, venues and start/end date and hour for collected information to record them in a database means, retrieves the database means on the basis of the location information of the business vehicle in a managed particular business state and notification date and hour, extracts an event that is currently held in a region around the current location of the business vehicle and transmits a retrieval result of the event to the business vehicle device. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an event information providing system for facilitating acquisition of passengers for a business vehicle such as a taxi searching for passengers, and a business vehicle device and a vehicle information management center device used in this system.

  In order to make it easier to acquire passengers for taxis and other commercial vehicles that are traveling empty and searching for passengers, a database of passenger information such as passenger boarding / departure times, boarding / exiting locations, and dates is used as a history in the business domain. There is a customer information providing system for business vehicles that is provided to business vehicles as user acquisition information (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

JP 2001-188995 A

  Although the conventional system is configured as described above, it is intended for customers expected to be used based on the past passenger history, so if the amount of accumulated data increases, it is meaningful as provided information as it is . However, these systems do not deal with the state of attracting customers that change irregularly such as various events as provided information.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problem, and provides an event information providing system and an operating vehicle apparatus that provide event information for enhancing passenger acquisition around a vehicle in a specific state to crew members of the operating vehicle. And it aims at obtaining a vehicle information management center apparatus.

  An event information providing system according to the present invention includes a business vehicle device provided in a business vehicle, and a vehicle information management center device that exchanges information with the business vehicle device wirelessly. The business vehicle device receives a GPS receiver. Position information generating means for generating position information representing the current position of the host vehicle from the data, operating state information generating means for generating operating state information representing the current operating state of the host vehicle, and the generated position information and operating state The information is transmitted to the vehicle information management center apparatus together with the vehicle number and the notification date and time, and on the other hand, the wireless transmission / reception means for receiving the event information held in the surrounding area of the own vehicle transmitted from the vehicle information management center apparatus The vehicle information management center device includes display means for displaying event information and notifying a crew member. On the other hand, the base station means for transmitting the search result of the event information obtained by the apparatus to the corresponding business vehicle apparatus, and updating and holding the position information, the business state information, etc. received by the base station means Management status information management means to manage, database means to record and accumulate event information that has been searched and collected in advance, search for various event information held in the business area from the Internet at a fixed period, event name from the collected information, The venue location and start / end date and time are extracted and recorded in the database means, and the database means is searched based on the location information and notification date and time of the operating vehicle in a specific business state managed by the business condition information management means. The event currently being held in the area around the current position of the business vehicle is extracted, and the search result of the event is output to the base station means. Those having a search means.

  According to the present invention, various event information held around the current position of a business vehicle is automatically extracted and provided as passenger acquisition information to a crew member of a business vehicle such as a taxi searching for a passenger. The target event information can be easily obtained, so that the crew can move the sales car to a location where there is a highly available customer based on the provided event information and acquire the customer. (In the case of a taxi, there is an effect that the occupancy rate) can be improved.

Embodiment 1 FIG.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an event information providing system according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
In the figure, the event information providing system includes a business vehicle apparatus 10, a vehicle information management center apparatus 20, and the Internet 30.
The business vehicle apparatus 10 includes a GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver 11, a vehicle radio device 12, and a display device 13. In the vehicle radio device 12, the position information generation unit 120 is means for generating position information representing the current position of the host vehicle from the reception data of the GPS receiver 11. The business state information generation unit 121 is a unit that generates business state information representing a business state such as an actual vehicle or an empty vehicle of the host vehicle. The wireless transmission / reception unit 122 transmits the position information from the position information generation unit 120 and the business state information from the business state information generation unit 121 to the vehicle information management center device 20 together with the vehicle number and the notification date and time. This is means for receiving event information transmitted from the device 20. The display device interface unit 123 is means for outputting the received event information to the display device 13 for display.

  The vehicle information management center device 20 includes a base station device 21 and an event information collection server 22. In the base station device 21, the wireless transmission / reception unit 211 receives position information, business state information, and the like sent from the vehicle wireless device 12 of the business vehicle device 10, and responds to a search result of event information obtained by the device. It is a means to transmit to the operating vehicle apparatus. The event information collection server interface unit 212 is means for exchanging data with the event information collection server 22 that the wireless transmission / reception unit 211 transmits / receives to / from the vehicle wireless device 12. In the event information collection server 22, the position / business state information management unit 221 is means for updating and maintaining the position information, business state information, and the like of each business vehicle received by the base station device 21. The database unit 223 is means for recording and accumulating event names, holding locations, and start / end dates and times extracted from event information searched and collected in advance. The search unit 222 searches for various event information held in the business area from the Internet 30 at regular intervals, extracts the event name, start / end date and time, and location from the collected information, and stores them in the database unit 223. In addition, the database unit 223 is searched based on the location information of the business vehicle in the specific business state managed by the location / business state information management unit 221 and the notification date and time, and the current location in the area around the current location of the target business vehicle. This is means for extracting a held event and outputting a search result of the event (information such as an event name, start / end date and time and a holding place) to the base station apparatus 21. Since the event scale estimation unit 224 is a function according to the second embodiment, it will be described later.

Next, the operation will be described.
In the business vehicle apparatus 10, the GPS receiver 11 receives GPS radio waves emitted from GPS satellites, and outputs the received data to the position information generation unit 120. The position information generation unit 120 calculates the current position of the host vehicle from the received signal, generates position information indicating the current position, and passes the position information to the business state information generation unit 121. The business state information generation unit 121 simultaneously generates business state information representing the current business state of the host vehicle. The wireless transmission / reception unit 122 associates the vehicle state and the notification date with the business state information and the position information, and transmits the information to the base station apparatus 21 side. For example, a taxi radio or an MCA (Multi Channel Access) radio is used for the radio line between the vehicle radio 11 and the base station apparatus 21. In the case of a taxi, the business status information is simply “empty vehicle” or “actual vehicle” indicating the customer's usage status, but even if it is an empty vehicle, it is waiting, resting, picking up, returning to office (forwarding) ), During breakdown, and may indicate the timing of passengers getting off and boarding, so it may be subdivided information.

  When the vehicle information management center device 20 receives the position information, the business state information, the vehicle number, and the notification date / time transmitted from the business vehicle device 10 by the wireless transmission / reception unit 211 of the base station device 21, the event information collection server interface unit 212 is To the location / business state information management unit 221 of the event information collection server 22 for management. A configuration example of a data table managed by the position / business state information management unit 221 is shown in FIG. In this example, vehicle number, business state, current position, and notification date / time data are associated with each other, and these data are updated and held every time they are received from each vehicle. The search unit 222 accesses a search site on the Internet 30 at a predetermined cycle, for example, once or twice a day, collects various event information within the company's sales area, and acquires event names from the collected event information. The location, start / end date and time, etc. are extracted and stored in the database unit 223. A data configuration example of the event information stored in the database unit 223 is shown in FIG.

In addition, the search unit 222 has a function of searching for data related to an event currently held in the peripheral area around the position of the business vehicle from the event information stored in the database unit 223. This will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.
When there is a vehicle whose business state is “empty” in the data table managed by the position / business state information management unit 221 (step ST11), the search unit 222 notifies the current position of the vehicle. The database unit 223 is searched using the date and time as a key (step ST12). That is, the event information stored in the database unit 223 is searched for an event held in the area around the current position of the specified vehicle, with the notification date and time being near the start date and time or the end date and time of the event. Next, if a target event is extracted, event information such as the event name, location, start / end date and time, etc., if not extracted, data such as “no event information” is displayed. Then, the vehicle radio device 12 is notified as a search result via the base station device 21 (step ST13).

  Here, there are several methods for extracting events held in the area around the current position of the vehicle in step ST12. One of them is to calculate the distance between the location on the map data (location on the map processing based on the address) and the current position of the vehicle in the database of FIG. This is a method of extracting as a target event when it is equal to or less than a threshold (for example, 1 kilometer). Further, a plurality of position data representing an area having a radius of 1 kilometer, for example, centered on the position on the map data of “event holding place” in the database of FIG. There is a method of associating with a “location” and extracting it as a target event when position data that matches the current position of the vehicle (approximate depending on the amount of data) exists. As another method, when an event whose vehicle notification date / time matches the start / end date / time of the event is detected from the database, the surrounding area of the “location” is generated in the same position data as above, and You may make it collate the position data which corresponds with the present position of a vehicle from inside.

  Next, in the business vehicle apparatus 10, the search result of the event information sent from the vehicle information management center apparatus 20 is received by the wireless transmission / reception unit 122 and sent to the display device 13 through the display device interface unit 123 and displayed. Therefore, the crew can know the information of the event around the own vehicle from the display device 13, and can lead to the acquisition of passengers. The display device 13 may notify the crew member by voice. Further, the location of the event information obtained as a search result may be specified and displayed on a navigation map.

  As described above, according to the first embodiment, the position information of the host vehicle and the current sales state of the host vehicle are transmitted from the business vehicle apparatus 10 to the vehicle information management center apparatus together with the vehicle number and the notification date and time. The center device 20 receives position information, business status information, etc. received from the business vehicle device, updates, maintains and manages it, searches various event information held in the business area from the Internet at regular intervals, and collects information The event name, location and start / end date / time are extracted from the database and stored in the database. Also, the database is created based on the location information and notification date / time of the operating vehicle in the specific operating state that is maintained and managed. Search, extract the event currently held in the area around the current position of the business vehicle, and transmit the search result of the event to the business vehicle device 10 , And to inform the vehicle of the operating vehicle device 10 receives the event information being held in the peripheral zone, crew displays the event information received. Therefore, event information held in the area surrounding the target vehicle can be automatically obtained, and the crew can move the sales vehicle to a location with a highly available customer based on the provided event information and use it. It is possible to improve customer acquisition (in the case of taxis, the occupancy rate).

Embodiment 2. FIG.
Taxi companies often operate using a large number of vehicles, and obtain and manage business status information about the timing of passengers getting on and off from each vehicle. Therefore, in the second embodiment, it will be described that the event scale is estimated based on the business information and can be used. The event size estimation unit 224 in FIG. 1 estimates the event size based on the business status information of the position / business status information management unit 221 and the search result by the search unit 222, and associates the event size with the event name to the database unit. 223 is means for writing.

The event scale estimation operation is performed according to the flowchart shown in FIG.
The event scale estimation unit 224 acquires and holds the current position (alighting position) and the notification date / time (alighting date / time) of the vehicle whose business state is “get off” from the position / business condition information management unit 221 (step ST21). . Next, when the obtained getting-off position is within a certain range, the getting-off time is within a certain time, and the number of vehicles that have notified “getting off” exceeds a certain value, it is determined that an event is held (step ST22). ). Then, using the search unit 222, the database unit 223 is searched using the vehicle getting-off position determined to be holding an event and the current time (determination time) as keys (step ST23). Here, when the event information scheduled to be held near the current position and near the current time is obtained as a search result (step ST24), the event size estimation unit 224 determines the event size from the number of vehicles that have notified “get off”. 3 is written and accumulated in the “event scale” column corresponding to the corresponding event in the table shown in FIG. 3 of the database unit 223 (step ST25). As the estimated event scale, for example, the number of customers calculated based on past performance data of similar events and the number of getting off in a certain time used for determination are used.

  As described above, according to the second embodiment, it is determined that an event is being held based on the number of vehicles that have been notified of alighting position, date and time of getting off from each business vehicle, and “getting off”. Number of vehicles that have been searched for from the database for events scheduled to be held near and at the current time based on the vehicle's drop-off position determined to be present and the current time. When notifying the search result of the event information, the business vehicle apparatus is notified and displayed at the same time. Therefore, the crew of the vehicle that has received the notification can determine the travel route according to the event scale.

Embodiment 3 FIG.
In the second embodiment, when it is determined that an event is held, an event scheduled to be held is searched from the database unit 223 in the vicinity of the getting-off position and near the current time. Data obtained from Relatively large events are posted on the Internet site, but urgently planned events may not be posted when targeting small and specific customers. Even in such a case, based on the information from each business vehicle, the “Get events” where the getting-off position obtained is within a certain range, the getting-off time is within a certain time, and the number of vehicles that have been notified of “getting off” exceeds a certain value. “Yes” is obtained. Therefore, as a result of searching the database unit 223 using the search unit 222, when the corresponding event does not exist, the event size estimation unit 224 sets a temporary event name, for example, “event X” as the event name. Estimate the size of the event. The temporary event name, the event scale, and the representative getting-off position assigned to the venue (the getting-off position of any vehicle that has been notified) are recorded and stored in the database unit 223. Then, this data is used as a search result of the event information of the first embodiment so that it can be notified to the business vehicle. In this way, even if the event name and holding time are not specified, the possibility of customer acquisition can be provided. If necessary, the vehicle that got off or boarded at that position may be inquired wirelessly, and the situation obtained from the customer or the site may be acquired and updated to reliable data.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the event information provision system by each embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the structural example of the data table of the positional information and business condition information which concern on Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the structural example of the database of the event information which concerns on Embodiment 1 and Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the search operation | movement of the event information which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows event scale estimation operation | movement based on Embodiment 2 of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Sales vehicle apparatus, 11 GPS receiver, 12 Vehicle radio, 13 Display apparatus, 20 Vehicle information management center apparatus, 21 Base station apparatus, 22 Event information collection server, 30 Internet, 120 Location information generation part, 121 Sales state information Generation unit, 122 Wireless transmission / reception unit, 123 Display device interface unit, 211 Wireless transmission / reception unit, 212 Event information collection server interface unit, 221 Location / business state information management unit, 222 Search unit, 223 Database unit, 224 Event scale estimation unit

Claims (9)

A business vehicle device provided in the business vehicle, and a vehicle information management center device for exchanging information wirelessly with the business vehicle device,
The business vehicle device is:
Position information generating means for generating position information representing the current position of the host vehicle from the received data of the GPS receiver;
Business state information generating means for generating business state information representing the current business state of the vehicle;
The generated location information and business status information are transmitted to the vehicle information management center device together with the vehicle number and the notification date and time, while the event information held in the surrounding area of the own vehicle transmitted from the vehicle information management center device Wireless transmitting and receiving means for receiving
It has a display means to display the received event information and inform the crew,
The vehicle information management center device includes:
Base station means for receiving position information, business state information and the like transmitted from the business vehicle device, while transmitting a search result of event information obtained by the device to a corresponding business vehicle device;
Business status information management means for updating, maintaining and managing the position information, business status information, etc. received by this base station means,
Database means for recording and accumulating pre-searched and collected event information;
Search for various event information held in the business area from the Internet at regular intervals, extract the event name, location and start / end date and time from the collected information, record it in the database means, and manage business status information Search the database means based on the location information and notification date and time of the business vehicle in a specific business state managed by the means, to extract the event currently held in the area around the current location of the business vehicle, An event information providing system comprising search means for outputting a search result of the event to the base station means.   The search means calculates the distance between the position on the map data of the event location in the database means and the current position of the vehicle, and if the distance is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold, the event is the current position of the sales vehicle. 2. The event information providing system according to claim 1, wherein the event information is extracted as an event currently held in the surrounding area. When the business vehicle is a taxi, the vehicle information management center device obtains and holds the exit position and date / time of the business vehicle whose business status is "Get off" from the position / business status information management unit, and the exit location is constant. If it is within the range, the getting-off date / time is within a certain time, and the number of vehicles that have reported “getting off” exceeds a certain value, it is determined that an event is held, and it is determined that an event is held using the search means. The database means is searched based on the unveiling position of the vehicle and the current time, the events scheduled to be held in the vicinity of the unloading position and near the current time are extracted, and the extracted event is based on the number of vehicles that are notified of “getting off” Event size estimating means for writing and storing the estimated event size in the database means,
3. The event information providing system according to claim 1, wherein the search means notifies the event size at the same time when outputting the search result of the event information to the base station means.   The event size estimation means uses the search means to retrieve the provisional event name if the event scheduled to be held cannot be extracted when the database means is searched based on the getting-off position of the vehicle determined to be held and the current time. 4. The event information providing system according to claim 3, wherein the scale of the event is estimated by setting, and a temporary event name, a representative getting-off position as a holding place, and a scale of the event are recorded and stored in a database means. In a business vehicle device that is mounted on a business vehicle and wirelessly exchanges information with a vehicle information management center device,
Position information generating means for generating position information representing the current position of the host vehicle from the received data of the GPS receiver;
Business state information generating means for generating business state information representing the current business state of the vehicle;
The generated position information and business status information are transmitted to the vehicle information management center device together with the vehicle number and the notification date and time, and are held in the surrounding area of the own vehicle obtained and transmitted by the vehicle information management center device. Wireless transmission / reception means for receiving event information;
A business vehicle apparatus comprising display means for displaying received event information and notifying a crew member. In a vehicle information management center device that wirelessly exchanges information with a business vehicle device mounted on a business vehicle,
Base station means for receiving the position information, the business state information, the vehicle number and the notification date and time transmitted from the business vehicle device, and transmitting the search result of the event information obtained by the device to the corresponding business vehicle device; ,
Business status information management means for updating, maintaining and managing the position information, business status information, etc. received by this base station means,
Database means for recording and accumulating pre-searched and collected event information;
Search for various event information held in the business area from the Internet at regular intervals, extract the event name, location and start / end date and time from the collected information, record it in the database, and business status information management means The database means is searched based on the location information and notification date and time of a business vehicle in a specific business state managed in the above, and an event currently held in the area around the current location of the business vehicle is extracted. A vehicle information management center apparatus comprising search means for outputting an event search result to the base station means.   The search means calculates the distance between the position on the map data of the event location in the database means and the current position of the vehicle, and if the distance is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold, the event is the current position of the sales vehicle. 7. The vehicle information management center device according to claim 6, wherein the vehicle information management center device is extracted as an event currently held in a surrounding area. A vehicle information management center device when the business vehicle is a taxi,
Get and hold the get-off position and date / time of the business vehicle whose business status is `` get off '' from the position / sales status information management unit, the get-off position is within a certain range, and the get-off date is within a certain time, and When the number of vehicles notified of “getting off” exceeds a certain value, it is determined that an event is held, and database means is used based on the position and current time when the vehicle is determined to be holding an event using the search means. The event that is scheduled to be held near the position of getting off and near the current time is extracted, the size of the extracted event is estimated based on the number of vehicles that are notified of “getting off”, and the estimated event size is stored in the database. An event size estimation means for writing and accumulating means;
The vehicle information management center apparatus according to claim 6 or 7, wherein the search means notifies the event scale at the same time when outputting the search result of the event information to the base station means. The event size estimation means uses the search means to retrieve the provisional event name if the event scheduled to be held cannot be extracted when the database means is searched based on the getting-off position of the vehicle determined to be held and the current time. 9. The vehicle information management center apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the scale of the event is estimated by setting, and a temporary event name, a representative drop-off position as a holding place, and a scale of the event are recorded and stored in the database means.

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