TW201926161A - Method of providing bike return area for guiding the user to return the bike in use to a return area in lack of bikes - Google Patents

Abstract

A method of providing a bike return area is implemented by a server connected to a user end and a plurality of transmitting ends, wherein each transmitting end transmits an identification code and a bike position coordinate to the server. The method comprises the steps of: when receiving a return area request including a geographical location data, the server obtaining at least one candidate return area data according to the geographical location data and the stored plurality of return area data corresponding to the plurality of return areas; in a coordinate plane corresponding to the return areas, marking each bike position coordinate corresponding to the bike that is in an unleased state and corresponds to the identification code; and counting the number of marks in the plane area corresponding to each candidate return area, and obtaining and transmitting the promotion method of each candidate return area to the user end according to the counted number of marks.

Description

Vehicle return area providing method

The invention relates to a method for repaying a car, and in particular to a method for providing a return area of a vehicle.

Due to the crowded urban population and the global warming and the promotion of green sports and energy conservation and carbon reduction, Taiwan has begun to set up public vehicles without manual management between stations or stations, or around tourist attractions. The rental service provides a way for the general public or tourists to travel as a shorter distance. Among them, public bicycle rental services such as UBike and OBike are popular among the public.

There are many problems with the car return mechanism of UBike or OBike rental services on the market. First, UBike must return the vehicle to the pillars of the fixed site when returning the vehicle. When the user rides to the site and finds that there are no empty pillars, they can only wait until others rent the vehicle at the site. The vehicle can only be returned if an empty pillar is produced. In addition, although OBike is different from UBike's site-style in the returning mechanism, users can freely park in any location to complete the return of the vehicle, and will not be unable to stop because there is no empty pillar, but this is derived. The problem of parking is more intangible and adds more social costs.

However, whether the UBike or OBike's return mechanism will cause excessive concentration of vehicles in a certain area and excessive lack of a certain area, and the vehicle resources cannot be rationally allocated. At this time, the manager can only use the vehicle to carry the vehicle manually. Redistribution balances the vehicles in each area.

Therefore, the existing public bicycle returning mechanism needs to be improved to meet the needs of managers and users.

Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a vehicle return area providing method for guiding a user to return a vehicle in use to a return area lacking in the vehicle to equalize the number of vehicles in each return area.

Therefore, the vehicle returning area providing method of the present invention is implemented by a server, the server is connected to a user terminal via a communication network, and is respectively installed on a plurality of different long-distance wireless networks The transmitting end of the vehicle is connected, and each transmitting end is configured to periodically transmit, via the corresponding long-range wireless network, an identification code corresponding to the erected vehicle and a vehicle corresponding to the geographical location of the erected vehicle. The vehicle information of the position coordinate is sent to the servo end, and the method for providing the return area of the vehicle includes a step (A), a step (B), a step (C), a step (D), and a step (E).

The step (A) is to store, by the server end, a plurality of return area information corresponding to the plurality of return areas, and a status flag of the rental state of the vehicle corresponding to each identification code, and each return area information Included with a return location data corresponding to the return area, a flag value of the status flag is a first predetermined value indicating that the vehicle is in a rental state, and is different from the first predetermined value and indicates the The vehicle is in one of a second predetermined value of an unleased state.

The step (B) is when the server receives a return area request including a geographic location data corresponding to a geographic location of the user terminal, and the server obtains the geographic location data according to the return area request. And returning the location information corresponding to the return area information, obtaining at least one candidate return area information from the return area information, wherein the candidate return area corresponding to the return location data in each candidate return area information and the The distance between the geographical locations of the usage ends corresponding to the geographical location data is less than a first preset distance.

The step (C) is: by the server, according to the received vehicle flag corresponding to the rental state of the vehicle corresponding to the identification code, the second predetermined value of the vehicle information, each corresponding The vehicle position coordinates of the vehicle information corresponding to the vehicle in the unleased state corresponding to the identification code are marked in a coordinate plane corresponding to the return areas.

The step (D) is, by the server, counting the number of markers in each of the planar regions of the coordinate plane corresponding to the at least one candidate return region.

The step (E) is: obtaining, by the server, a preferential manner corresponding to each candidate return area according to at least the number of marks in the plane area corresponding to each candidate return area, and transmitting corresponding to each candidate return area. The candidate returns the regional information and the preferential manner to the use end.

The effect of the present invention is that the server obtains the preferential manner corresponding to each candidate returning area according to the number of the at least one candidate returning area, and transmits the preferential manner to the using end, and the user can display according to the using end. The preferential manner corresponding to each candidate return area is free to select any return area to return the vehicle to achieve the balance of vehicle resources in each candidate return area.

Before the present invention is described in detail, it should be noted that in the following description, similar elements are denoted by the same reference numerals.

Referring to FIG. 1, a first embodiment of a method for providing a vehicle return area according to the present invention is implemented by a system including a server 1, a user terminal 2, a management terminal 3, and a plurality of transmitting terminals 4. The server 1 is connected to the user terminal 2 and the management terminal 3 via a communication network 100, and is connected to the transmitting terminals 4 of the plurality of vehicles 103 via a plurality of different long-range wireless networks.

The server 1 includes a server communication module 11 connected to the communication network 100, a server storage module 12, and a servo terminal for electrically connecting the server communication module 11 and the server storage module 12. Module 13. It is worth mentioning that the server processing module 13 of the server 1 receives the plurality of return area information transmitted from the management terminal 3 via the communication network 100 through the server communication module 11, and these The return area information is stored in the server storage module 12. In addition, the server storage module 12 of the server 1 also stores a status flag of the rental status of the vehicle 103 corresponding to each identification code, and a flag value of the status flag indicates that the vehicle 103 is indicated. A first predetermined value that is in a rented state, and one of a second predetermined value that is different from the first predetermined value and indicates that the vehicle 103 is in an unleased state. It is worth noting that, initially, the flag value of the status flag is preset to indicate the second predetermined value that the vehicle 103 is in the unleased state.

The user terminal 2 has a positioning capability and is equipped with a vehicle return application 104 and is carried by a user 101 who rents one of the vehicles 103. It is worth mentioning that the user terminal 2 includes a user terminal 21 connected to the communication network 100, a user storage module 22 storing the vehicle return application 104, and a user input module 23. And the use end communication module 21, the use end storage module 22 and the use end processing module 24 of the use end input module 23.

When the user 101 wants to return the rented vehicle 103, the user 101 uses the user terminal 2 to transmit a return area request including a geographic location data corresponding to the geographic location of the user terminal 2 to the server. 1. The information about the area of the returnable vehicle 103 is obtained from the servo terminal 1.

The management terminal 3 is controlled by a manager 102 for transmitting a plurality of return area information corresponding to a plurality of return areas to the server end 14. It is worth mentioning that the management terminal 3 includes a management terminal communication module 31 connected to the communication network 100, a management terminal input module 32, and an electrical connection between the management terminal communication module 31 and the management terminal input module. The management side of the group 32 processes the module 33.

Each return area information includes a return location data corresponding to the return area, and a time limit data indicating a service life of the return area, wherein the time limit data includes a first time indicating an activation time of the return area The time data is enabled, and a deactivation time data indicating the deactivation time of one of the return areas. It should be noted that the management processing module 33 first generates the return area information according to the input operation of the management unit 102 through the management terminal input module 32, and then passes the management terminal communication module 31. The return area information is transmitted to the server 1. It should be noted that the management processing module 33 can also freely set a penalty corresponding to an area other than the return area according to the administrator 102 input operation through the management input module 32, and set The penalty corresponding to the area outside the return area effectively directs the user 101 to park the vehicle in the return area.

Each transmitting end 4 periodically transmits an identification code corresponding to the erected vehicle 103 and a vehicle position coordinate corresponding to the geographical location of the erected vehicle 103 via the corresponding long-range wireless network. Vehicle information to the server 1. It is to be noted that, in the first embodiment, each transmitting end 4 includes a transmitting end communication module 41, a transmitting end positioning module 42 and an electrical connection connected to the corresponding long-distance wireless network. The transmitting end communication module 41 and the transmitting end processing module 43 of the transmitting end positioning module 42. Each of the transmitting end positioning modules 42 is configured to locate the geographical position of the vehicle 103 that is erected to generate the vehicle position coordinates, and transmit the vehicle position coordinates to the transmitting end processing module 43 electrically connected thereto, each transmitting The end processing module 43 receives the corresponding vehicle position coordinate, and generates vehicle information including the identification code and the vehicle position coordinate, and transmits the vehicle information to the servo end 1 via the transmitting end communication module 41 electrically connected thereto. . However, in other embodiments of the present invention, each of the vehicles 103 is provided with a transmitting end positioning module 42 electrically connected to the transmitting end 4 in addition to the transmitting end 4, and each transmitting end positioning module 42 is provided. The location of the vehicle 103 that is erected is located to generate and transmit the vehicle location coordinates to the transmitting end 4 that is electrically connected thereto. At this time, each transmitting end 4 includes the transmitting end communication module 41 and the transmitting end processing module 43 electrically connected to the transmitting end communication module 41, and does not include the transmitting end positioning module 42, and each transmitting end The processing module 43 receives the corresponding vehicle position coordinates, and generates vehicle information including the identification code and the vehicle position coordinates, and transmits the vehicle information to the servo end 1 via the transmitting end communication module 41 electrically connected thereto.

Hereinafter, the first embodiment of the vehicle returning area providing method of the present invention will be described to explain the operation details of the components of the server 1, the terminal 2, the management terminal 3, and the transmitting terminals 4, and the vehicle returning area. The first embodiment of the providing method includes a rental program, a candidate return area obtaining program, and a preferential method obtaining program, wherein the rental program includes a step 501, and a step 502, the candidate return area obtaining program includes a Step 503, a step 504, a step 505, and a step 506, the preferential mode obtaining program includes a step 507, a step 508, a step 509, a step 510, and a step 511.

Referring to Figures 1 and 2, the system implements the rental program of the first embodiment of the method for providing a vehicle return area of the present invention, the rental program including steps 501-502.

In step 501, the user-side processing module 24 generates an input signal from the user-side input module 23 and transmits one of the vehicles 103 via the user-side communication module 21 and includes the The rental request of the identification code is sent to the server 1.

In step 502, when the server processing module 13 receives the rental request via the server communication module 11, the server processing module 13 uses the status corresponding to the identification code of the rental request. The flag value of the flag is updated to indicate the first predetermined value that the vehicle 103 is in the rental state, and the status flag corresponding to the identification code storing the rental request is stored in the server storage module 12 .

Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 3, the system implements a candidate return area obtaining program of the first embodiment of the vehicle returning area providing method of the present invention, and the candidate returning area obtaining program includes steps 503-506.

In step 503, the management processing module 33 generates the return area information according to the input signal from the management input module 32, and transmits the return area information to the management terminal 31 via the management terminal communication module 31. Servo terminal 1.

In step 504, when the server processing module 13 receives the return area information via the server communication module 11, the server processing module 13 stores the return area information to the server storage mode. Group 12.

In step 505, the user processing module 24 generates a return area request including a geographic location data corresponding to the geographic location of the user terminal 2 based on the input signal from the user input module 23, and The user terminal communication module 21 transmits the return area request to the server terminal 1.

In step 506, when the server processing module 13 receives the return area request via the server communication module 11, the receiving time requested by the returning area, the geographical location data in the returning area request, And the returned location information corresponding to each of the returned area information, and at least one candidate return area information is obtained from the returned area information. The distance between the candidate return area corresponding to the returned location data in each candidate return area information and the geographic location of the use end 2 corresponding to the geographical location data is less than a first preset distance; and each The activation time indicated by the activation time data of the deadline data in a candidate return area information is earlier than the reception time of receiving the return area request, and the deactivation of the deadline data in each candidate return area information The deactivation time indicated by the time data is later than the reception time of receiving the return area request.

Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 4, the system implements a preferential mode obtaining program of the first embodiment of the vehicle returning area providing method of the present invention, and the preferential mode obtaining program includes steps 507-511.

In step 507, the server processing module 13 selects, according to the received vehicle flag corresponding to the rental status of the vehicle 103 corresponding to the identification code, the vehicle information of the second predetermined value. The vehicle position coordinates of the vehicle information corresponding to the vehicle 103 in the unleased state corresponding to the identification code are marked in a coordinate plane corresponding to the return areas.

In step 508, the server processing module 13 counts the number of markers in each of the planar regions of the coordinate plane corresponding to the at least one candidate return region.

In step 509, the server processing module 13 counts the total number of identification codes of the identification codes of all the vehicle information from each of the transmitting terminals 4.

In step 510, the server processing module 13 divides the number of markers in the plane region corresponding to each candidate return region by the total number of the identification codes to obtain a vehicle density ratio corresponding to each candidate return region, and then A preferential manner corresponding to each candidate return area is obtained according to the vehicle intensive rate corresponding to each candidate return area. It should be noted that, in the first embodiment, the preferential manner is obtained by dividing the number of markers in the plane area corresponding to each candidate return area by the total number of identification codes, however, the server processing module 13 may also obtain the preferential manner corresponding to each candidate return area according to the number of markers in the plane area corresponding to each candidate return area. In addition, the preferential manner described in the step 510 can also be added or adjusted by the general knowledge in the field, and is not limited by the calculation method described in the step 510.

In step 511, the server processing module 13 generates a map indicating the location of the candidate return area corresponding to the return location data of each candidate return area information, and the discount corresponding to each candidate return area. The mode is marked on the map (see FIG. 5), and the map is transmitted to the user terminal 2 via the server communication module 11.

The rental program and the candidate return area obtaining program in a second embodiment of the vehicle return area providing method of the present invention are the same as the rental program and the candidate return area obtaining program in the first embodiment, respectively, and the main difference is the preferential manner. Get the program.

Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 6, the system implements a preferential mode obtaining procedure of the second embodiment of the vehicle returning area providing method of the present invention, and includes steps 607-613. The steps 607, 608, and 613 of the preferential mode obtaining program in the second embodiment are the same as the steps 507, 508, and 511 of the preferential mode obtaining program in the first embodiment, and the same points are not described herein again. The different steps 609, 610, 611, and 612 are described in detail.

In step 609, for the return location data in each candidate return area, the server processing module 13 according to the returned location data corresponding to the candidate return area, and the received corresponding corresponding to the identification code The status flag of the rental status of the vehicle 103 is the vehicle information of the first predetermined value, and determining whether there is at least one vehicle position coordinate corresponding to the vehicle information of the vehicle 103 corresponding to the identification code in the rental state, and the The distance between the candidate return areas is less than a second preset distance.

In step 610, for the return location data in each candidate return area information, when the server processing module 13 determines that there is at least one vehicle information corresponding to the vehicle 103 corresponding to the identification code in the rental state. When the distance between the candidate returning area corresponding to the returned location data is less than the second preset distance, the distance between the at least one vehicle location coordinate and the candidate returning area is less than the second pre-count. A total number of vehicles of the vehicle 103 corresponding to the vehicle information of the distance is set as an estimated number of parking spaces of the candidate return area.

In step 611, for the return location data in each candidate return area information, when the server processing module 13 determines that there is no vehicle information corresponding to the at least one vehicle 103 corresponding to the identification code being in the unleased state. The vehicle position coordinate is set to zero.

In step 612, the server processing module 13 obtains a discount corresponding to each candidate return area according to the number of markers in the plane area corresponding to each candidate return area and the estimated parking quantity of each candidate return area. the way.

In summary, the vehicle returning area providing method of the present invention, by counting the total number of vehicles in the unleased state in each candidate returning area information that is smaller than the first preset distance from the position of the using end 2, Each candidate return area is smaller than the second preset distance and the total number of vehicles in the rented state, and the total number of all vehicles, and the like, and the preferential manner corresponding to each candidate return area near the location of the used end 2 is calculated. Through the preferential method, the user 101 can clearly understand and select the vehicle returning area that is most advantageous and convenient for himself, and therefore, the vehicle returning area providing method dynamically adjusts the corresponding corresponding area of each returning area. The preferential method is to attract the user 101 to stop in the returning area with less vehicles, or to increase the returning price of the vehicle, so that the user 101 can stop in other returning areas, thereby effectively allocating vehicle resources and reducing labor. Carrying and adjusting the vehicle resource cost, in addition, the manager 102 can also set each return vehicle area by itself. Information, stipulates the scope of all returnable vehicle areas and the time limit for returning the vehicle, not only to prevent the user 101 from parking at the location where the parking should not be stopped, but also to additionally add a temporary return area when there is a temporary large-scale event. Instead of returning the time limit, the user 101 is conveniently returned to the vehicle 103 to prevent social costs from increasing unintentionally. Therefore, the object of the present invention can be achieved.

However, the above is only the embodiment of the present invention, and the scope of the invention is not limited thereto, and all the simple equivalent changes and modifications according to the scope of the patent application and the patent specification of the present invention are still Within the scope of the invention patent.

1‧‧‧Server

11‧‧‧Server communication module

12‧‧‧Server storage module

13‧‧‧Server processing module

2‧‧‧Use side

21‧‧‧Using the end communication module

22‧‧‧Using end storage module

23‧‧‧Using the input module

24‧‧‧Using the end processing module

3‧‧‧Manager

31‧‧‧Management Communication Module

32‧‧‧Management input module

33‧‧‧Management Processing Module

4‧‧‧Send

41‧‧‧Send communication module

42‧‧‧Send positioning module

43‧‧‧Send processing module

100‧‧‧Communication network

101‧‧‧Users

102‧‧‧Manager

103‧‧‧ Vehicles

104‧‧‧Vehicle return application

501~511‧‧‧Steps

607~613‧‧‧Steps

Other features and advantages of the present invention will be apparent from the embodiments of the present invention, wherein: Figure 1 is a block diagram illustrating a system of a first embodiment of a method for providing a vehicle return area of the present invention; 2 is a flowchart illustrating the rental program of the first embodiment; FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating the candidate return region obtaining program of the first embodiment; FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating the first embodiment FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing a display screen of a return application executed by a user terminal; and FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a preferential manner of a second embodiment of the vehicle returning area providing method of the present invention. Get the program.

Claims (8)

A method for providing a vehicle return area is implemented by a server connected to a user via a communication network and sent to a plurality of different vehicles via a plurality of different long-distance wireless networks End connection, each transmitting end is configured to periodically transmit, via the corresponding long-range wireless network, an identification code corresponding to the erected vehicle and a vehicle position coordinate corresponding to the geographic location of the erected vehicle The vehicle information is sent to the server, and the method for providing the return area of the vehicle includes the following steps: (A) storing, by the server, a plurality of return area information corresponding to the plurality of return areas, and a vehicle corresponding to each identification code a status flag of the lease status, each return area information includes a return location data corresponding to the return area, and a flag value of the status flag is a first predetermined value indicating that the vehicle is in a rental state, And one of a second predetermined value that is different from the first predetermined value and indicates that the vehicle is in an unleased state; (B) when the server receives an inclusion When the returning area request corresponding to the geographic location data of the geographic location of the user terminal is used, the server may, according to the geographic location data in the returning area request and the returned location information corresponding to the returned regional information, Obtaining at least one candidate return area information from the return area information, wherein the candidate return area corresponding to the return location data in each candidate return area information and the geographical location of the use end corresponding to the geographical location data The distance is less than a first predetermined distance; (C) by the server, the state flag corresponding to the rental state of the vehicle corresponding to the identification code corresponding to the vehicle is the second predetermined value Information, the vehicle position coordinates corresponding to the vehicle information corresponding to the vehicle corresponding to the identification code in the unleased state are marked in a coordinate plane corresponding to the return area; (D) by the servo end, statistics At least one of the number of markers in each of the planar regions of the coordinate plane corresponding to the at least one candidate return region; and (E) Obtaining, by the server, a preferential manner corresponding to each candidate returning area according to at least the number of the markings in the planar area corresponding to each candidate returning area, and transmitting the candidate returning area information corresponding to each candidate returning area and the Offer method to the use side. The method for providing a vehicle return area according to claim 1, wherein the server is connected to a management terminal via the communication network, and the management terminal is configured to transmit the return area information to the server, wherein in step (A) When the server receives the return area information sent by the management terminal, the server stores the return area information to the server. The vehicle return area providing method according to claim 1, wherein in the step (A), when the server receives a rental request corresponding to one of the vehicles and including the identification code, the servo Updating the flag value of the status flag corresponding to the identification code of the rental request to the first predetermined value indicating that the vehicle is in the rental state, to store the identification code of the rental request The corresponding status flag. The method for providing a vehicle return area according to claim 1, further comprising the following steps before the step (E): (F) by the server, counting an identification code of all vehicle information from each transmitting end The total number of codes; and, in the step (E), the server obtains the preferential manner corresponding to each candidate return area according to not only the number of markers in the plane area corresponding to each candidate return area but also the total number of the identification codes. . The vehicle return area providing method according to claim 4, wherein in the step (E), the server first divides the number of marks in the plane area corresponding to each candidate return area by the total number of the identification codes, respectively. Obtaining a vehicle density ratio corresponding to each candidate return area, and obtaining the preferential manner corresponding to each candidate return area according to the vehicle density ratio corresponding to each candidate return area. The vehicle return area providing method according to claim 1, wherein: in the step (A), each return area information further includes a deadline data indicating a use period of the return area, wherein the deadline information includes an indication An activation time data of an activation time of the return area, and a deactivation time data indicating a deactivation time of the return area; and in step (B), each candidate obtained by the server The activation time indicated by the activation time data of the deadline data in the return area information is earlier than a reception time of receiving the return area request, and the deactivation time data of the deadline data in each candidate return area information The indicated deactivation time is later than the reception time of receiving the return zone request. The vehicle return area providing method according to claim 1, wherein the step (E) comprises the following steps: (E-1) obtaining, by the server end, at least according to the number of marks in the plane area corresponding to each candidate return area. a preferential manner corresponding to each candidate return area; and (E-2), by the server, generating a map indicating the location of the candidate return area corresponding to the return location data of each candidate return area information, The preferential manner corresponding to each candidate return area is marked on the map, and the map is transmitted to the use end. The method for providing a vehicle return area according to claim 1, further comprising the following steps before the step (E): (G) returning, by the server, the return location data in each candidate return area according to the candidate The return location data corresponding to the area, and the received vehicle flag corresponding to the rental state of the vehicle corresponding to the identification code is the vehicle information of the first predetermined value, and determining whether at least one corresponding has the identification The vehicle position coordinate of the vehicle information corresponding to the code in the rental state, and the distance between the candidate return area and the candidate return area is less than a second preset distance; (H) by the server, for each candidate return area information Returning location data, when it is determined that there is at least one vehicle location coordinate corresponding to the vehicle information corresponding to the vehicle in the rental state corresponding to the identification code, the distance between the candidate returning regions corresponding to the returned location data is less than And the second preset distance, the distance between the at least one vehicle location coordinate and the candidate return area is less than the second preset distance a total number of vehicles of the vehicle corresponding to the vehicle information, as an estimated parking amount of the candidate return area; and, in step (E), the server is not only according to the plane area corresponding to each candidate return area The number of tokens is also obtained according to the estimated number of parking spaces of each candidate returning area, and the preferential manner corresponding to each candidate returning area is obtained.