JPH09204598A - Vehicle allocation system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle allocation system capable of reducing the leads of the registration of a customer data base and maintenance. SOLUTION: A vehicle allocation base station 1 is provided with the customer data base 2 where the position information of customers is registered, a base station computer 3 for retrieving the customer data base 2 and a base station radio communication equipment 4 for transmitting the retrieved position information of the customer. Also, a vehicle 5 is provided with an on-vehicle radio communication equipment 6 for receiving the position information of the customer transmitted from the base station radio communication equipment 4, a map data base 7 where map information is registered and an on-vehicle computer 9 for outputting the map information of the map data base 7 and the position information of the customer to an on-vehicle display device 8, displaying a map at the on-vehicle display device 8 and displaying the position of the customer on the map. Vehicle allocation is performed by the customer data base 2 provided in the vehicle allocation base station 1 and the need of providing the customer data base in the respective vehicles 5 is eliminated.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a vehicle dispatch system that directs vehicles such as taxis and luggage carriers to customers.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When operating a vehicle such as a taxi or a luggage carrier, it is necessary to dispatch the vehicle to the customer in response to a request from the customer. For example, in the case of a taxi, when a customer requests a vehicle dispatch base station such as a garage by telephone to dispatch the vehicle, the vehicle dispatch base station gives an instruction to the vehicle driver by wireless communication to direct the vehicle to the customer's position. . In this case, when the driver of the vehicle does not know the customer's position, the vehicle is instructed by voice from the dispatch base station to guide the vehicle to the customer's position, but accurate guidance by voice is difficult,
There is a problem with the safety of driving as well as the inefficiency of work.

Therefore, in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 6-103320, a customer database in which the customer's location information is registered is installed in a vehicle, and the customer's location information is called from the customer database in response to wireless communication from a vehicle dispatch base station. A system has been provided that allows a customer's position to be displayed on a map on a vehicle-mounted display device. In this system, the driver of the vehicle can confirm the position of the customer on the map of the in-vehicle display device, and can easily reach the position of the customer while looking at the map.

[0004]

However, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No.
In the system of Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 103320, since a customer database is mounted on each vehicle such as a taxi, when registering a new customer in the customer database, it is necessary to register each customer in the customer database of each vehicle. In addition, when performing maintenance such as inspection of the customer database, it is necessary to maintain the customer database of each vehicle, which causes a problem that registration and maintenance of the customer database is heavy.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and it is possible to reduce the burden of registration and maintenance of the customer database, and in addition, even a driver without a sense of land can easily and accurately reach the customer's position. It is an object of the present invention to provide a vehicle dispatch system that can be reached.

[0006]

A vehicle dispatch system according to the present invention is a vehicle dispatch base station 1, a customer database 2 in which customer position information is registered, a base station computer 3 for searching the customer database 2, and a search. The base station wireless communication device 4 for transmitting the position information of the customer is provided, and the vehicle 5 has the in-vehicle wireless communication device 6 for receiving the position information of the customer transmitted from the base station wireless communication device 4, and the map information is registered. The map database 7 and the map information of the map database 7 and the received customer position information are output to the in-vehicle display device 8 to display the map on the in-vehicle display device 8 and the customer position is displayed on this map. An on-vehicle computer 9 is provided.

According to the invention of claim 2, the vehicle 5 is provided with a GPS.
GPS antenna 10 for receiving signals and the received GPS
A GPS receiver 11 for calculating the position information of the vehicle 5 based on the signal is provided, and the current position of the vehicle 5 is displayed on the map of the in-vehicle display device 8 based on the position information. To do. Further, the invention of claim 3 is characterized in that the vehicle 5 is provided with a route calculation means for calculating a route from the current position of the vehicle 5 to the customer's position.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below. A base station computer 3 is installed in a vehicle dispatch base station 1 formed in a garage of a taxi company. A recording device 15 such as a hard disk storing the customer database 2 and a base station display device 16 formed by a display such as a CRT are connected to the base station computer 3. The customer database 2 is for registering customer position information (for example, latitude / longitude), and this position information is registered and managed with a customer identification number (ID number). For example, the customer's telephone number can be used as the customer identification number. A base station wireless communication device 4 is further connected to the base station computer 3 via a modem 17. Therefore, the base station wireless communication device 4 can transmit an audio signal and also the information output from the base station computer 3. In FIG. 1, 2
Reference numeral 0 is an antenna of the base station wireless communication device 4.

On the other hand, a vehicle 5 such as a taxi is equipped with an in-vehicle computer 9, and an in-vehicle wireless communication device 6 is connected to the in-vehicle computer 6 via a modem 18. Therefore, the in-vehicle wireless communication device 6 can receive the audio signal transmitted from the base station wireless communication device 4 and
Information transmitted from the base station computer 3 can be received by the in-vehicle wireless communication device 6 and input to the in-vehicle computer 9. A recording device 19 such as a hard disk storing the map database 7 and an in-vehicle display device 8 formed of a display such as a CRT or LCD are connected to the in-vehicle computer 9. The map database 7 is created, for example, by registering map information in which a map is digitalized in pixel units in vector mode. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 21 is an antenna of the in-vehicle wireless communication device 6.

The vehicle-mounted computer 6 has a GPS
The receiver 11 is connected, and the GPS antenna 10 connected to the GPS receiver 11 is attached to the ceiling or the like of the vehicle 5. The GPS antenna 10 is a GPS (Global).
It is for receiving a GPS signal transmitted from a communication satellite for Positioning System), and the GPS signal received by the GPS antenna 10 is input to the GPS receiver 11, and the GPS signal of the vehicle 5 is received based on this GPS signal. The position information (latitude / longitude information) can be detected.

Next, vehicle allocation using the system formed as described above will be described by taking a taxi as an example. When a customer requests a vehicle to be dispatched by telephone, first the dispatch base station 1
The customer identification number is input to the base station computer 3, the customer database 2 is searched based on the identification number, the customer position information (latitude / longitude) is output to the base station computer 3, and the customer position The information is displayed on the base station display device 16. The dispatch operator selects a vehicle 5 suitable for dispatch based on the customer's position information displayed on the base station display device 16, and as shown in FIG.
Call the in-vehicle wireless device 6 of the vehicle 5 to issue a vehicle dispatch command with a voice signal, and output the customer's position information from the base station computer 3 to the base station wireless communication device 4 via the modem 17, The position information is transmitted from the base station wireless communication device 4.

On the other hand, the customer position information transmitted from the base station wireless communication device 4 is received by the in-vehicle wireless communication device 6 of the vehicle 5 which has received the vehicle dispatch instruction, and is input to the in-vehicle computer 9 via the modem 18. Further, in this vehicle 5, the current position information of the vehicle 5 based on the GPS signal is the GPS receiver 11
Is input to the in-vehicle computer 9. When the customer's position information is input to the vehicle-mounted computer 9, the optimum map information is selected from the map database 7 based on the customer's position information and the current position information of the vehicle 5. That is, a map area in which both the position of the customer and the current position of the vehicle 5 can be simultaneously displayed on the in-vehicle display device 8 and the map information of the scale ratio thereof are selected from the map database 7, and this map is displayed on the in-vehicle display device 8. It is like this. Furthermore, the position information of the customer and the current position information of the vehicle 5 input to the in-vehicle computer 9 are combined with this map information, and the position of the customer is displayed on the map displayed on the in-vehicle display device 8 as shown in FIG. a and the current position b of the vehicle 5 are displayed.

Therefore, the driver of the vehicle 5 is equipped with the in-vehicle display device 8
It is possible to visually confirm the customer's position a on the map and to easily reach the customer's position while looking at the map. Moreover, since the current position b of the vehicle 5 is also displayed on the map of the on-vehicle display device 8, the route from the current position b of the vehicle 5 to the customer's position a can be easily confirmed on the map of the on-vehicle display device 8. Therefore, even an inexperienced driver who does not have a sense of land can reach the customer's position without making a mistake on the road.

Further, road information such as intersection position information, road congestion information, one-way road information, and presence / absence information of toll roads are added to the map database 7, and the vehicle-mounted computer 9 is operated based on the road information. 5. Displaying the optimum route on the map of the in-vehicle display device 8 by providing a program (route calculating means) for calculating the shortest possible route from the current position b to the customer position a. Thus, the vehicle 5 can be automatically guided to the customer's position a.

Although the vehicle 5 can be dispatched in accordance with the customer's request as described above, the customer database 2 used for vehicle dispatch is provided in the dispatch base station 1, and each vehicle 5 is provided with the customer database 2. There is no need. Therefore,
When registering a new customer in the customer database 2, all that is required is to register in the customer database 2 of the dispatch base station 1,
Further, maintenance such as inspection of the customer database 2 is performed only by maintaining the customer database 2 of the dispatch base station 1, and the burden of registration and maintenance of the customer database 2 can be reduced.

[0016]

As described above, the present invention can be applied to a dispatch base station,
A customer database in which customer location information is registered, a base station computer that searches the customer database, and a base station wireless communication device that transmits the searched customer location information are provided, and transmitted to the vehicle from the base station wireless communication device. The in-vehicle wireless communication device that receives the received customer's position information, the map database in which the map information is registered, and the map information in the map database and the received customer position information are output to the in-vehicle display device, and the Since an in-vehicle computer that displays a map and displays the customer's position on this map is provided, the customer's position information retrieved from the customer database of the dispatch base station is transferred from the base station wireless communication device to the vehicle's in-vehicle wireless communication device. To display the customer's position on the map of the in-vehicle display device and easily reach the customer's position while looking at the map of the in-vehicle display device. In addition, it is possible to deliver vehicles by using the customer database provided in the dispatch base station, and it is not necessary to provide a customer database for each vehicle. When registering a new customer in the customer database, In addition to registering in the customer database of the dispatch base station, maintenance such as inspection of the customer database only needs to be maintained in the customer database of the dispatch base station, which reduces the burden of registration and maintenance of the customer database. is there.

In addition, the GP which receives the GPS signal on the vehicle
Since the S antenna and the GPS receiver that calculates the position information of the vehicle based on the received GPS signal are provided, and the current position of the vehicle is displayed on the map of the in-vehicle display device based on this position information, You can easily check the route from the current position of the vehicle to the customer's position on the map of the in-vehicle display device, and even an inexperienced driver who does not have a sense of land can reach the customer's position without making a mistake. Is something that can be done.

Further, since the vehicle is provided with the route calculating means for calculating the route from the current position of the vehicle to the customer's position, the route calculating means displays the optimum route on the map of the vehicle-mounted display device. It is possible to automatically guide the vehicle to the customer's position.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an example of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a base station and a vehicle in the above.

FIG. 3 is a front view showing the in-vehicle display device of the above.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Vehicle allocation base station 2 Customer database 3 Base station computer 4 Base station wireless communication device 5 Vehicle 6 In-vehicle wireless communication device 7 Map database 8 In-vehicle display device 9 In-vehicle computer 10 GPS antenna 11 GPS receiver

Front page continued (72) Inventor Yoshitaka Tezuka 1048 Kadoma, Kadoma-shi, Osaka Matsushita Electric Works Co., Ltd.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A delivery base station is provided with a customer database in which customer location information is registered, a base station computer for searching the customer database, and a base station wireless communication device for transmitting the location information of the searched customer, The vehicle has a vehicle-mounted wireless communication device that receives the position information of the customer transmitted from the base station wireless communication device, a map database that registers map information, and the map information of the map database and the received position information of the customer that are mounted on the vehicle. A vehicle dispatch system, comprising: an on-vehicle computer that outputs the information to a display device to display a map on the in-vehicle display device and displays a customer's position on the map. 2. A vehicle is provided with a GPS antenna for receiving a GPS signal and a GPS receiver for calculating position information of the vehicle based on the received GPS signal, and on a map of an in-vehicle display device based on the position information. 2. The vehicle dispatch system according to claim 1, wherein the current position of the vehicle is displayed on the display. 3. The vehicle dispatch system according to claim 2, wherein the vehicle is provided with route calculation means for calculating a route from the current position of the vehicle to the position of the customer.