JP2023144700A - On-demand traffic management device, method for managing on-demand traffic, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

To manage an operation in consideration of an operational situation.SOLUTION: An on-demand traffic management device includes: an in-vehicle device equipped in a traffic vehicle serving as a public transportation and an on-demand transportation; a terminal device for inputting a reservation of the traffic vehicle; a communication unit for performing data communications by a network; and a determination unit for generating on-demand operational plan information of the traffic vehicle which provides an on-demand transportation, according to reservation information including a boarding place, a boarding desired time, and a leaving place sent from the terminal device and received by the communication unit and on the basis of operational situation information of the traffic vehicle sent from the vehicle device and received by the communication unit, and sending the on-demand operational plan information to the traffic vehicle which provides the on-demand traffic by using the communication unit.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

Description

The present invention relates to an on-demand traffic management device, an on-demand traffic management method, and a program.

A taxi provides a public transportation service in which a taxi is hailed by a customer, picks up the customer, and transports the customer to the destination. In recent years, on-demand transportation services have also been provided, in which a taxi travels to the customer's boarding point when called from an app, picks up the customer, and then transports the customer to the destination.

Patent No. 6203443 Japanese Patent Application Publication No. 2020-135032

However, depending on the situation of the taxi, it may be inconvenient for the taxi to receive a request for on-demand transportation service and move to the passenger's boarding location. As described above, with the conventional technology, there are cases where it is not possible to perform operation management that takes the operation situation into consideration.

The present invention has been made in consideration of such circumstances, and an object thereof is to provide an on-demand traffic management device, an on-demand traffic management method, and a program that can perform traffic management that takes account of the operational status. be one of the.

The on-demand traffic management device, on-demand traffic management method, and program according to the present invention employ the following configuration.
(1): An on-demand traffic management device according to one aspect of the present invention includes an on-vehicle device mounted on a transportation vehicle that serves both public transportation and on-demand transportation, and a terminal device for inputting reservations for the transportation vehicle. , a communication unit that performs data communication via a network, and the on-vehicle device in accordance with the reservation information including the boarding location, desired boarding time, and drop-off location, which is transmitted by the terminal device and received by the communication unit. Generate on-demand operation plan information for the transportation vehicle that provides on-demand transportation based on the operation status information of the transportation vehicle that is transmitted and received by the communication section, and provide the on-demand transportation using the communication section. a determining unit that transmits the on-demand operation plan information to a traffic vehicle.

(2): In the aspect of (1) above, the operation status information is a status regarding whether or not the transportation vehicle is operating as public transportation, and the determining unit is configured to determine whether or not the transportation vehicle is operating as public transportation. The vehicle is not included in the on-demand operation plan information.

(3): In the aspect of (1) or (2) above, the operation status information includes position information of each traffic vehicle.

(4): In the aspect of (3) above, when the position information of the traffic vehicle indicates a predetermined waiting place, the determination unit does not include the traffic vehicle in the on-demand operation plan information.

(5): In the aspect of (3) or (4) above, the determining unit is configured to determine whether or not the traffic vehicle can be accepted as on-demand traffic, which is received by the communication unit from the in-vehicle device. The on-demand schedule information is generated based on the notification.

(6): In the aspect of (5) above, the on-demand availability notification has priority over the operation status regarding the location information.

(7): The on-demand traffic management method according to one aspect of the present invention includes an on-vehicle device mounted on a transportation vehicle that serves both public transportation and on-demand transportation, and a terminal device for inputting reservations for the transportation vehicle. , a communication step of communicating data via a network; and a communication step of transmitting data to the in-vehicle device in accordance with reservation information including a boarding location, a desired boarding time, and a drop-off location, which is transmitted by the terminal device and received by the communication step. generating on-demand operation plan information for the transportation vehicle that provides on-demand transportation based on the operation status information of the transportation vehicle transmitted by and received by the communication step, and providing the on-demand transportation by the communication step. transmitting the on-demand schedule information to a traffic vehicle that is to be operated.

(8): A program according to one aspect of the present invention includes, in a computer, an in-vehicle device installed in a transportation vehicle that serves both public transportation and on-demand transportation, and a terminal device that inputs a reservation for the transportation vehicle; The operating status of the transportation vehicle is transmitted by the in-vehicle device in accordance with the reservation information including the boarding location, desired boarding time, and drop-off location, which is transmitted by the terminal device through data communication via a network. Based on the information, on-demand operation plan information of the transportation vehicle providing on-demand transportation is generated, and the on-demand operation plan information is transmitted to the transportation vehicle providing on-demand transportation.

According to the aspects (1) to (4), (7), and (8), it is possible to perform operation management that takes the operation situation into consideration.

According to the aspects (5) and (6), operation management can be performed taking into consideration the judgment of the driver of the traffic vehicle and the like.

1 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration of an on-demand transportation system 1. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a functional configuration of an on-demand traffic management device 200. FIG. This is an example of operation status data 220B. This is an example of reservation information data 220C. 2 is a sequence diagram showing an example of the flow of processing executed by the reservation application 110 (terminal device 100), the on-demand traffic management device 200, and the vehicle M. FIG. It is a diagram showing the configuration of an on-demand traffic management device 200 according to a second embodiment. It is a diagram showing an example of on-demand traffic acceptance data 220D.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, embodiments of an on-demand traffic management device, an on-demand traffic management method, and a program of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

<First embodiment>
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration of an on-demand transportation system 1. As shown in FIG. The on-demand transportation system 1 provides on-demand transportation services. An on-demand transportation service is a transportation service provided in response to an on-demand reservation made by a predetermined user using an app or the like. The predetermined user is a user who has registered as a member, a user who has been given a predetermined authority, or the like.

The on-demand transportation system 1 includes, for example, an in-vehicle communication device 10 mounted on one or more vehicles M (vehicles M-1 to M-3... in the figure), and a terminal device 100 (terminal device 100 in the figure). -1 to 100-3...) and an on-demand traffic management device 200. The in-vehicle communication device 10, the terminal device 100, and the on-demand traffic management device 200 communicate with each other via the network NW1, for example. The network NW1 includes, for example, a cellular network, a Wi-Fi network, Bluetooth (registered trademark), the Internet, a WAN (Wide Area Network), a LAN, a public line, a provider device, a private line, a wireless base station, and the like.

[Terminal device]
The terminal device 100 is a terminal device held by a user who uses the on-demand transportation service. The terminal device 100 is a terminal device that can be carried by a user, such as a smartphone, a tablet terminal, or a personal computer. The terminal device 100 is realized, for example, by a processor such as a CPU (Central Processing Unit) executing a program (software) stored in a storage device. Some or all of the functions executed by the terminal device 100 may be realized by hardware such as LSI (Large Scale Integration), ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit), FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array), etc. It may also be realized by cooperation of software and hardware.

On the terminal device 100, an application program or a browser for using the on-demand transportation service provided by the on-demand transportation system 1 is activated, and supports the services described below. The following description assumes that the terminal device 100 is a smartphone and that an application program (reservation application 110) is used in processing related to on-demand transportation services. The reservation application 110 communicates with the on-demand traffic management device 200 in accordance with the operation of the user U, and transmits the reservation request of the user U to the on-demand traffic management device 200 and uses information received from the on-demand traffic management device 200. send push notifications based on The reservation request includes the boarding location, desired boarding time, and arrival location desired by the user U as reservation information.

In the example of FIG. 1, users U1, U2, and U3 each carry terminal devices 100-1, 100-2, and 100-3, and the terminal devices 100-1, 100-2, and 100-3 each carry a reservation application 110. -1, 110-2, and 110-3 are installed.

[vehicle]
Vehicle M is, for example, a taxi that provides public transportation services and on-demand transportation services. Public transportation services are transportation services provided by traditional taxis, which include, for example, picking up customers at taxi stands or along the way and transporting them to their destinations. Public transportation services may include arriving at a customer's pick-up point at a predetermined time based on a telephone reservation, picking up the customer, and transporting the customer to the destination. On-demand transportation services do not involve traveling to a customer's pickup location at a predetermined time based on a telephone reservation, picking up the customer, and transporting the customer to the destination.

The vehicle M is, for example, a vehicle with four or more wheels on which the user U can ride, but it may also be a motorcycle or other vehicle. The vehicle M includes a driving force output device, a brake device, a steering device, a control device, and an on-board communication device 10 for providing on-demand transportation. The in-vehicle communication device 10 includes, for example, a communication section, a processing section, a display section, an input section, and the like. The communication unit is a communication interface that communicates with the on-demand traffic management device 200. The processing section generates a signal to be displayed on the display section based on the information acquired by the communication section. The display section displays reservation information, which will be described later. The input unit obtains input information. The vehicle M also includes a device that acquires its own location information.

When the vehicle M receives the reservation information from the on-demand traffic management device 200, the driver of the vehicle M goes to the boarding location included in the reservation information. Vehicle M transmits the operating status of vehicle M to on-demand traffic management device 200. The operation status is, for example, a status regarding whether or not the vehicle M is operating as public transportation. The operation status is, for example, position information of the vehicle M. Further, the vehicle M may transmit information regarding whether the vehicle M is a real vehicle, that is, whether or not it carries a passenger, to the on-demand traffic management device 200.

[Vehicle management device]
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the functional configuration of the on-demand traffic management device 200. The on-demand traffic management device 200 includes, for example, a communication section 202, an operation status recording section 204, a reservation information recording section 206, a dispatched vehicle determining section 208, and a storage section 220. The storage unit 220 stores map data 220A, operation status data 220B, and reservation information data 220C. The operation status recording section 204, the reservation information recording section 206, and the dispatched vehicle determining section 208 are realized, for example, by a processor such as a CPU executing a program (software) stored in a storage device. Some or all of these functional units may be realized by hardware such as LSI, ASIC, or FPGA, or may be realized by cooperation between software and hardware.

The communication unit 202 is a communication interface for communicating with other devices via the network NW1. The communication unit 202 obtains, for example, a reservation request transmitted by the terminal device 100. The reservation request is a request regarding the use of on-demand transportation. Furthermore, the communication unit 202 notifies the reservation application 110 that the reservation has been completed.

The communication unit 202 acquires the operating status of the vehicle M transmitted by the vehicle M, for example. Furthermore, the communication unit 202 transmits reservation information to a vehicle M determined by a dispatched vehicle determining unit 208, which will be described later. Note that the notification of reservation completion that the communication unit 202 gives to the reservation application 110 may include information regarding the vehicle M that transmitted the reservation information.

The operation status recording unit 204 records the operation status of the vehicle M. When the operation status is related to whether the vehicle M is operating as public transportation, the operation status recording unit 204 records the status regarding whether each vehicle M is operating as public transportation as operation status data 220B. do. FIG. 3 is an example of the operation status data 220B. An example of the operation status data 220B shown in FIG. 3 indicates that vehicle M-1 is operating as public transportation, and vehicle M-2 is operating as on-demand transportation.

For example, when the operating status is location information of the vehicle M, the operating status recording unit 204 records the operating status regarding whether each vehicle M is operating as public transportation based on the map data 220A and the location information of the vehicle M. It is recorded as situation data 220B. The map data 220A includes, for example, position information of a taxi stand. The operation status recording unit 204 records in the operation status data 220B that the vehicle M is operating as public transportation when the position of the vehicle M is within a predetermined range from the position of the taxi stand.

The map data 220A may include location information of places where congestion is likely to occur, such as station rotaries. Furthermore, the map data A may include data on the location of traffic jams received in real time via the communication unit 202. The operation status recording unit 204 may record in the operation status data 220B that the vehicle M is operating as public transportation when the location of the vehicle M is included in a place where congestion is likely to occur or a location where congestion occurs. .

The reservation information recording unit 206 records the reservation information of the reservation request acquired by the communication unit 202 in the storage unit 220 as reservation information data 220C. FIG. 4 is an example of the reservation information data 220C. The reservation information data includes the ID of the user who sent the reservation request, boarding location, desired boarding time, and destination.

The dispatched vehicle determining unit 208 determines the vehicle M to which reservation information is to be transmitted based on the operation status data 220B. The dispatched vehicle determining unit 208 determines, for example, among the vehicles M whose operation status is on-demand traffic in the operation status data 220B, the vehicle M closest to the boarding place of the reservation information is the vehicle M that transmits the reservation request. In addition, the vehicle M to which the reservation request is to be sent may be determined using various known methods.

For example, when the operation status data is data regarding whether or not vehicle M is operating as public transportation, the dispatched vehicle determining unit 208 does not send a reservation request to vehicle M that is operating as public transportation. You can do it like this.

Further, the operation status data may include position information of each vehicle M. When the location information of the vehicle M indicates a predetermined position (for example, a waiting area), the dispatched vehicle determining unit 208 may not transmit a reservation request to the vehicle M.

FIG. 5 is a sequence diagram showing an example of the flow of processing executed by the reservation application 110 (terminal device 100), the on-demand traffic management device 200, and the vehicle M. First, vehicle M transmits the operating status to on-demand traffic management device 200 (step S10). The operation status recording unit 204 of the on-demand traffic management device 200 records the received operation status (step S12).

The reservation application 110 transmits a reservation request to the on-demand traffic management device 200 in response to the user's operation (step S16). The dispatched vehicle determining unit 208 of the on-demand traffic management device 200 decides the vehicle to be dispatched (step S18). Thereafter, the communication unit 202 transmits the reservation information to the vehicle M determined by the allocated vehicle determination unit 208 (step S20), and notifies the reservation application 110 of the completion of the reservation (step S22).

According to the first embodiment described above, the on-demand traffic management device 200 receives reservation information including the boarding location, desired boarding time, and drop-off location transmitted from the terminal device 100, and determining a vehicle M that provides on-demand transportation based on the situation, and transmitting the reservation information corresponding to the determined transportation vehicle to the transportation vehicle by a method other than a telephone call, whereby the on-demand transportation is Vehicles that provide demand transportation can be determined, and vehicles can be allocated more efficiently.

<Second embodiment>
FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the configuration of an on-demand traffic management device 200 according to the second embodiment. The on-demand traffic management device 200 according to the second embodiment includes an acceptance data creation unit 210 in addition to the on-demand traffic management device 200 according to the first embodiment.
The acceptance data creation unit 210 creates on-demand traffic acceptance data 220D based on the operation status data 220B. The on-demand transportation acceptance data 220D is data indicating whether each vehicle M can accept reservations for on-demand transportation. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of on-demand traffic acceptance data 220D. For example, a vehicle M whose operation status is public transportation in the operation status data 220B is not acceptable in the on-demand transportation acceptance data 220D. For example, for a vehicle M whose operation status is on-demand traffic in the operation status data 220B, the acceptance status is acceptable in the on-demand traffic acceptance data 220D.

The dispatched vehicle determining unit 208 according to the second embodiment determines the vehicle M to which reservation information is to be transmitted based on the on-demand traffic acceptance data 220D. The dispatched vehicle determining unit 208 determines, for example, the vehicle M closest to the boarding location of the reservation information, among the vehicles M whose acceptance status is acceptable in the on-demand traffic acceptance data 220D, as the vehicle M that transmits the reservation request.

The acceptance data creation unit 210 creates on-demand traffic acceptance data 220D based on the operation status data 220B and other information.

Vehicle M may transmit an acceptance permission notification indicating whether or not on-demand traffic can be accepted to on-demand traffic management device 200. For example, when the driver of the vehicle M operates the in-vehicle communication device 10, an acceptance notification is sent to the on-demand traffic management device 200. The acceptance data creation unit 210 of the on-demand traffic management device 200 may create the on-demand traffic acceptance data 220D based on the acceptance notification received from the vehicle M. Further, the acceptance data creation unit 210 of the on-demand traffic management device 200 may create the on-demand traffic acceptance data 220D by giving priority to either the operation status data 220B or the notification of acceptance. For example, the acceptance data creation unit 210 prioritizes acceptance notifications, and if a notification indicating non-acceptance is received from a vehicle M, even if the operating status of the vehicle M is on-demand traffic, may not be accepted. Further, if the acceptance data creation unit 210 has received a notification from the vehicle M indicating that the vehicle is acceptable, even if the operating status of the vehicle M is public transportation, the acceptability data creation unit 210 may set the acceptance status as acceptable.

The acceptance data creation unit 210 may create the on-demand traffic acceptance data 220D based on whether the vehicle M is a real vehicle, that is, whether it carries passengers. For example, when the vehicle M is an actual vehicle, the acceptability data creation unit 210 may determine whether the vehicle M is acceptable for on-demand traffic.

Further, the acceptability data creation unit 210 may determine whether or not the vehicle M determined by the allocated vehicle determining unit 208 to transmit the reservation information is not acceptable. At this time, the acceptability data creation unit 210 may determine whether the vehicle M is acceptable or not when the vehicle M becomes an actual vehicle and then becomes empty.

According to the second embodiment described above, the on-demand traffic management device 200 includes the acceptability data creation section 210. The acceptability data creation unit 210 generates on-demand traffic acceptability indicating whether or not the vehicle M can accept on-demand traffic based on the operation status data 220B and, for example, whether or not an acceptability notification has been received from the vehicle M. Create data 220D. The dispatched vehicle determining unit 208 determines the vehicle M to which reservation information is to be transmitted based on the on-demand traffic acceptance data 220D. Thereby, the vehicle M to which the reservation information is to be transmitted can be determined based also on the information received from the vehicle M, and the vehicle M to which the reservation information is to be transmitted can be determined more flexibly.

Vehicle M may be a vehicle that performs automatic driving. Vehicle M may perform automatic driving based on the boarding location and desired boarding time included in the received reservation information and arrive at the boarding location at the relevant time.

The embodiment described above can be expressed as follows.
a storage device that stores the program;
comprising a hardware processor;
By the hardware processor executing a program stored in the storage device,
Connected via a network to a transportation vehicle that serves both public transportation and on-demand transportation, and a terminal device for inputting reservations for the transportation vehicle,
Receive reservation information including the boarding location, desired boarding time, and drop-off location transmitted from the terminal device;
receiving the operating status of the traffic vehicle transmitted from the traffic vehicle;
determining the transportation vehicle to provide on-demand transportation based on the operating status of each transportation vehicle;
A vehicle management device configured to transmit the reservation information corresponding to the determined traffic vehicle to the traffic vehicle by a method other than a telephone call.

Although the mode for implementing the present invention has been described above using embodiments, the present invention is not limited to these embodiments in any way, and various modifications and substitutions can be made without departing from the gist of the present invention. can be added.

1 On-demand transportation system 100 Terminal device 110 Reservation application 200 On-demand traffic management device 202 Communication section 204 Operation status recording section 206 Reservation information recording section 208 Dispatch vehicle determination section 210 Acceptability data creation section 220 Storage section

Claims (8)

An on-vehicle device installed in a transportation vehicle that serves both public transportation and on-demand transportation, a terminal device that inputs reservations for the transportation vehicle, and a communication unit that performs data communication via a network;
of the transportation vehicle in accordance with the reservation information including the boarding location, desired boarding time, and alighting location, which was transmitted by the terminal device and received by the communication unit, and which was transmitted by the in-vehicle device and received by the communication unit. Generating on-demand operation plan information for the transportation vehicle that provides on-demand transportation based on the operation status information, and transmitting the on-demand operation plan information to the transportation vehicle that provides on-demand transportation using the communication unit. a decision section to
On-demand traffic management device equipped with The operation status information is a status regarding whether or not the transportation vehicle is operating as public transportation;
The determining unit does not include the transportation vehicle operating as public transportation in the on-demand operation plan information.
The on-demand traffic management device according to claim 1. The operation status information includes position information of each traffic vehicle.
The on-demand traffic management device according to claim 1 or 2. When the location information of the transportation vehicle indicates a predetermined waiting location, the determining unit does not include the transportation vehicle in the on-demand operation plan information.
The on-demand traffic management device according to claim 3. The determining unit generates the on-demand operation plan information based on an on-demand availability notification indicating whether or not the traffic vehicle can be accepted as on-demand traffic, which is received by the communication unit from the in-vehicle device.
The on-demand traffic management device according to claim 3 or 4. The on-demand availability notification has priority over the operation status regarding the location information,
The on-demand traffic management device according to claim 5. a communication step of communicating data via a network with an on-vehicle device mounted on a transportation vehicle that serves both public transportation and on-demand transportation, and a terminal device for inputting reservations for the transportation vehicle;
The traffic information transmitted by the in-vehicle device and received by the communication step in accordance with the reservation information including the boarding location, desired boarding time, and drop-off location, which was transmitted by the terminal device and received by the communication step. Generating on-demand operation plan information for the transportation vehicle that provides on-demand transportation based on vehicle operation status information, and transmitting the on-demand operation plan information to the transportation vehicle that provides on-demand transportation through the communication step. a decision step to
An on-demand traffic management method having to the computer,
communicating data via a network with an on-vehicle device mounted on a transportation vehicle that serves both public transportation and on-demand transportation, and a terminal device for inputting reservations for the transportation vehicle;
On-demand transportation is provided in accordance with the reservation information including the boarding location, desired boarding time, and drop-off location transmitted by the terminal device, and based on the operation status information of the transportation vehicle transmitted by the in-vehicle device. A program that generates on-demand operation plan information for the transportation vehicle that provides the on-demand transportation, and causes the transportation vehicle that provides the on-demand transportation to transmit the on-demand operation plan information.

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