TWI640945B - Vehicle rental area providing method - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for providing a rental area of a vehicle is implemented by a server connected to a user end and a plurality of transmitting ends, each transmitting end transmitting an identification code and a vehicle position coordinate to the server, the method comprising: when When the server receives the request for the rental area including the geographical location data, the server obtains at least one candidate rental area information according to the geographical location data and the stored plurality of rental area information corresponding to the plurality of rental areas; The vehicle position coordinates of the vehicle corresponding to the identification code in the unleased state are marked on a coordinate plane corresponding to the rental areas; and the number of marks in the plane area corresponding to each candidate rental area is counted, and according to the statistics The number of tokens is obtained and transmitted to each of the candidate rental areas.

Description

Vehicle rental area providing method

The present invention relates to a method for renting a car, and more particularly to a method for providing a rental area of a vehicle.

In today’s busy and busy society, people’s busy work pressure is increasing, and because of the rising concept of environmental protection, more and more people choose to go to work by bicycle or take a ride to maintain health and release the pressure in daily life. The trend is to promote the construction and development of Ubike public bicycle equipment, bringing more convenient choices to people.

The existing Ubike public bicycle equipment uses electronic unmanned management to provide rental services for people's A-site rental car B-site returning in a site-like manner, and is set up between stations or station bases as a mass transit system. The final stage of the connection tool. However, Ubike public bicycle stations often have all the parking racks empty, and the user must wait for a long time until other users return the public bicycle to the parking rack to rent, causing the user to lose time without reason. To solve this problem only The Ubike public bicycle can be manually transported from an overloaded site to other nearby empty parking rack sites.

Moreover, according to statistics, on average, nearly 20% of public bicycles must be redeployed by manual means of transportation every day. Such public bicycles are over-concentrated in a certain area, and the excessive lack of a certain area not only consumes the resources of the management unit, but also Inconvenience caused by the user.

Therefore, there are still many shortcomings in the rental mechanism of public bicycles, and there is a need for further improvement.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is a vehicle rental area providing method for guiding a user to a rental area in which a vehicle is excessively rented to equalize the number of vehicles in each rental area.

Therefore, the method for providing a vehicle rental area according to the present invention is implemented by a server that is connected to a user terminal via a communication network and is respectively installed in 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 location coordinates of the vehicle information to the server end, the vehicle rental area providing method comprises 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, a plurality of rental area information corresponding to the plurality of rental areas, and a status flag of the rental status of the vehicle corresponding to each identification code, and each rental area information includes Corresponding to the rental location data of the rental 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 indicating the vehicle One of the second predetermined values in an unleased state.

The step (B) is when the server receives a lease area request that includes a geographic location data corresponding to a geographic location of the user terminal, and the server obtains the geographic location data according to the lease area request. And the rental location information corresponding to each of the rental area information, obtaining at least one candidate rental area information from the rental area information, wherein the candidate rental area corresponding to the rental location information in each candidate rental 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 rental 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 rental region.

The step (E) is: obtaining, by the server, a preferential manner corresponding to each candidate rental area according to at least the number of markers in the plane area corresponding to each candidate rental area, and transmitting corresponding to each candidate rental area. The candidate rental area 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 rental area according to the number of the at least one candidate rental area, and transmits the preferential manner to the usage end, and the user can display according to the usage end. Each of the candidate rental areas corresponds to the preferential manner, and freely selects any rental area rental vehicle to achieve a balance of vehicle resources in each candidate rental 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 rental area of a vehicle according to the present invention is implemented by a system including a server 1, a 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 to be noted that the server processing module 13 of the server 1 receives the plurality of rental area information transmitted from the management terminal 3 via the communication network 100 through the server communication module 11, and The rental 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 should be particularly noted that initially, since the vehicles 103 are all in the unleased state, the flag value of each status flag is preset to indicate the second predetermined value of the vehicle 103 in the unleased state. .

The user terminal 2 has a positioning capability and is equipped with a vehicle rental application 104 and is carried by a user 101 who is to rent 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 rental 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 rent one of the vehicles 103, the user 101 uses the user terminal 2 to transmit a rental area request containing a geographical location data corresponding to the geographic location of the user terminal 2 to the The servo terminal 1 acquires information about the area of the rentable vehicle 103 to the server terminal 1.

The management terminal 3 is controlled by a manager 102 for transmitting a plurality of rental area information corresponding to a plurality of rental 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 rental area information includes a rental location information corresponding to the rental area, and a deadline information indicating a usage period of the rental area, wherein the deadline information includes a first one indicating an activation time of the rental area The time data is enabled, and a deactivation time data indicating the deactivation time of one of the rental areas. It should be noted that the management terminal processing module 33 first generates the rental area information according to the input operation of the management terminal input module 32 through the management terminal 102, and then passes the management terminal communication module 31 to the same. The rental area information is transmitted to the server 1.

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.

The operation details of the components of the server 1, the user terminal 2, the management terminal 3, and the transmitters 4, which are described in the first embodiment of the vehicle rental area providing method of the present invention, will be described below. The first embodiment of the method includes a candidate rental area obtaining program, and a preferential method obtaining program, wherein the candidate rental area obtaining program includes a step 501, a step 502, a step 503, and a step 504, The preferential mode obtaining program includes a step 505, a step 506, a step 507, a step 508, and a step 509.

Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the system implements a candidate rental area obtaining program of the first embodiment of the vehicle rental area providing method of the present invention, and the candidate rental area obtaining program includes steps 501-504.

In step 501, the management processing module 33 generates the rental area information according to the input signal from the management input module 32, and transmits the rental area information to the management terminal 31 via the management terminal communication module 31. Servo terminal 1.

In step 502, when the server processing module 13 receives the rental area information via the server communication module 11, the server processing module 13 stores the rental area information to the server storage mode. Group 12.

In step 503, the user processing module 24 generates a rental area request including a geographic location data corresponding to the geographic location of the user terminal 2 according to an input signal from the user input module 23, and The consumer communication module 21 transmits the lease area request to the server 1.

In step 504, when the server processing module 13 receives the rental area request via the server communication module 11, the receiving time requested by the rental area, the geographical location data in the rental area request, And the rental location information corresponding to each of the rental area information, and obtaining at least one candidate rental area information from the rental area information. The distance between the candidate rental area corresponding to the rental location data and the geographic location of the usage end 2 corresponding to the geographical location data in each candidate rental area information is less than a first preset distance; The activation time indicated by the activation time data of the deadline data in a candidate rental area information is earlier than the reception time of receiving the rental area request, and the deactivation of the deadline data in each candidate rental area information The deactivation time indicated by the time data is later than the reception time of receiving the rental area request.

Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 3, the system implements a preferential mode obtaining program of the first embodiment of the vehicle rental area providing method of the present invention, and the preferential mode obtaining program includes steps 505-509.

In step 505, 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 rental areas.

In step 506, 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 rental region.

In step 507, the server processing module 13 counts the total number of identification codes of the identification codes of all the vehicle information from each transmitting terminal 4.

In step 508, the server processing module 13 divides the number of markers in the plane area corresponding to each candidate rental area by the total number of identification codes to obtain a vehicle density ratio corresponding to each candidate rental area, and then A preferential manner corresponding to each candidate rental area is obtained according to the vehicle intensive rate corresponding to each candidate rental area. It should be noted that, in the first embodiment, the preferential manner is obtained by dividing the number of markers in the planar area corresponding to each candidate rental area by the total number of identification codes, however, the server processing module 13 may also obtain the preferential manner corresponding to each candidate rental area according to the number of markers in the plane area corresponding to each candidate rental area. In addition, the preferential manner described in the step 508 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 508.

In step 509, the server processing module 13 generates a map indicating the location of the candidate rental area corresponding to the rental location data of each candidate rental area information, and the discount corresponding to each candidate rental area. The mode is marked on the map (see FIG. 4), and the map is transmitted to the user terminal 2 via the server communication module 11.

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

Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 5, the system implements a preferential mode obtaining program of the second embodiment of the vehicle rental area providing method of the present invention, and includes steps 605-611. Steps 605, 606, and 611 of the preferential mode obtaining program in the second embodiment are the same as steps 505, 506, and 509 of the preferential mode obtaining program in the first embodiment, and the same points are not described herein again. The different steps 607, 608, 609, and 610 are described in detail.

In step 607, for the rental location data in each candidate rental area, the server processing module 13 is configured according to the rental location data corresponding to the candidate rental area, and corresponding to the corresponding 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 rental areas is less than a second preset distance. When the server processing module 13 determines that there is at least one vehicle location coordinate corresponding to the vehicle information of the vehicle 103 corresponding to the identification code in the rental state, and the candidate rental area corresponding to the rental location data When the distance is less than the second preset distance, the process proceeds to step 608. When the server processing module 13 determines that there is no vehicle position coordinate corresponding to the vehicle information corresponding to the vehicle 103 corresponding to the identification code in the unleased state, the flow proceeds to step 609.

In step 608, the server processing module 13 counts the total number of vehicles of the vehicle 103 corresponding to the vehicle information corresponding to the vehicle information between the vehicle location coordinates and the candidate rental area being less than the second predetermined distance. As an estimated number of parking spaces for the candidate rental area.

In step 609, the server processing module 13 sets the estimated parking amount to zero.

In step 610, the server processing module 13 obtains a discount corresponding to each candidate rental area according to the number of markers in the plane area corresponding to each candidate rental area and the estimated parking quantity of each candidate rental area. the way.

It is worth mentioning that, when the user 101 determines a target rental area from the at least one candidate rental area, and selects a vehicle 103 to be rented to the target rental area, the user 101 can utilize the The terminal 2 transmits a rental request corresponding to the vehicle 103 to be rented and containing the identification code of the vehicle 103 to be rented to the server 1. When the server processing module 13 receives the rental request via the server communication module 11, the server processing module 13 uses the status flag corresponding to the identification code of the rental request. The flag value is updated to indicate the first predetermined value that the vehicle 103 is in the rental state, so that the status flag corresponding to the identification code of the rental request is stored in the server storage module 12.

In summary, the vehicle rental area providing method of the present invention, by counting the total number of vehicles in the unleased state in each candidate rental area information that is less than the first preset distance of the location of the user terminal 2, Calculating, according to information such as the total number of vehicles in the rental state and the total number of all vehicles in each of the candidate rental areas, and calculating the preferential manner corresponding to each candidate rental area near the location where the user terminal 2 is located, Through the preferential method, the user 101 can clearly understand and select the car rental area that is most advantageous and convenient for himself, and therefore, the car rental area providing method dynamically adjusts the discount corresponding to each rental area. In this way, the user 101 is attracted to rent a car in a rented area with a large number of vehicles at a low price, or the price of a rented area with a small number of vehicles is increased to prompt the user 101 to rent a car in another rental area, thereby effectively allocating vehicle resources and reducing manual loading. Adjust vehicle resource costs. In addition, the manager 102 can also specify the range of all rentable vehicle areas and the time limit for renting vehicles through the information of each rental vehicle area set by itself, and additionally add additional time for temporary events. The temporary rental area and its rental time limit facilitate the user 101 to rent the vehicle 103. 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 Rental App
501~509 steps
605~611 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 rental area of the present invention; 2 is a flowchart for explaining the candidate rental area obtaining program of the first embodiment; FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the preferential mode obtaining program of the first embodiment; FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing a user performing a A display screen of the rental application; and FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating the preferential mode obtaining procedure of the second embodiment of the method for providing the rental area of the vehicle of the present invention.

Claims (8)

A method for providing a rental area of a vehicle 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 Vehicle information to the server, the method for providing a rental area of the vehicle includes the following steps: (A) storing, by the server, a plurality of rental area information corresponding to a plurality of rental areas, and a vehicle corresponding to each identification code a status flag of the rental status, each rental area information includes a rental location data corresponding to the rental 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 a request for a rental area corresponding to the geographical location data of the geographic location of the user terminal, wherein the location information corresponding to the geographic location information and the rental area information of the rental area request by the server is Obtaining at least one candidate rental area information from the rental area information, wherein the candidate rental area corresponding to the rental location information in each candidate rental area information and the geographical location of the usage 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 rental areas; (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 rental region; and (E) Obtaining, by the server, a preferential manner corresponding to each candidate rental area according to the number of the marks in the plane area corresponding to each candidate rental area, and transmitting the candidate rental area information corresponding to each candidate rental area and the Offer method to the use side. The method for providing a vehicle rental 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 rental area information to the server, wherein in step (A) When the server receives the lease area information sent by the management terminal, the server stores the lease area information to the server. The vehicle rental 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 rental 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 rental area according to not only the number of markers in the plane area corresponding to each candidate rental area but also the total number of the identification codes. . The vehicle rental 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 rental area by the total number of the identification codes, respectively. Obtaining a vehicle intensive rate corresponding to each candidate rental area, and obtaining the preferential manner corresponding to each candidate rental area according to the vehicle intensive rate corresponding to each candidate rental area. The vehicle rental area providing method according to claim 1, wherein: in the step (A), each rental area information further includes a deadline information indicating a use period of the rental area, wherein the deadline information includes an indication An activation time data of an activation time of one of the rental areas, and a deactivation time data indicating a deactivation time of the rental area; and in step (B), each candidate obtained by the server The activation time indicated by the activation time data of the term information in the rental area information is earlier than a receiving time of receiving the rental area request, and the deactivation time data of the term data in each candidate rental area information The indicated deactivation time is later than the reception time of receiving the rental area request. The vehicle rental 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 rental area a preferential manner corresponding to each candidate rental area; and (E-2), by the server, generating a map indicating the location of the candidate rental area corresponding to the rental location information of each candidate rental area information, The discount method corresponding to each candidate rental area is marked on the map, and the map is transmitted to the use end. The vehicle rental area providing method according to claim 1, further comprising the following steps before the step (E): (G) by the server, for the rental location information in each candidate rental area, according to the candidate rental The location information corresponding to the area and the received vehicle flag corresponding to the rental status of the vehicle corresponding to the identification code are the vehicle information of the first predetermined value, and determining whether at least one of the identifications is present The vehicle location coordinates of the vehicle information corresponding to the code in the rental state, and the distance between the candidate rental area and the candidate rental area is less than a second preset distance; (H) by the server, for each candidate rental area information The rental 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 rental area corresponding to the rental location data is less than And the second preset distance, the distance between the at least one location coordinate of the vehicle and the candidate rental 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 rental area; and wherein, in step (E), the server is not only based on the plane area corresponding to each candidate rental area The number of tokens is also obtained according to the estimated number of parking spaces of each candidate rental area, and the preferential manner corresponding to each candidate rental area is obtained.