WO2010020832A1 - Système pour fournir des informations liées à la survenue d’un arrêt d’un véhicule - Google Patents

Système pour fournir des informations liées à la survenue d’un arrêt d’un véhicule Download PDF

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WO2010020832A1
WO2010020832A1 PCT/IB2008/002978 IB2008002978W WO2010020832A1 WO 2010020832 A1 WO2010020832 A1 WO 2010020832A1 IB 2008002978 W IB2008002978 W IB 2008002978W WO 2010020832 A1 WO2010020832 A1 WO 2010020832A1
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Bernard Favre
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60Q—ARRANGEMENT OF SIGNALLING OR LIGHTING DEVICES, THE MOUNTING OR SUPPORTING THEREOF OR CIRCUITS THEREFOR, FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60Q1/00—Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor
    • B60Q1/26—Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor the devices being primarily intended to indicate the vehicle, or parts thereof, or to give signals, to other traffic
    • B60Q1/50—Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor the devices being primarily intended to indicate the vehicle, or parts thereof, or to give signals, to other traffic for indicating other intentions or conditions, e.g. request for waiting or overtaking
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60Q—ARRANGEMENT OF SIGNALLING OR LIGHTING DEVICES, THE MOUNTING OR SUPPORTING THEREOF OR CIRCUITS THEREFOR, FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60Q1/00—Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor
    • B60Q1/26—Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor the devices being primarily intended to indicate the vehicle, or parts thereof, or to give signals, to other traffic
    • B60Q1/50—Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor the devices being primarily intended to indicate the vehicle, or parts thereof, or to give signals, to other traffic for indicating other intentions or conditions, e.g. request for waiting or overtaking
    • B60Q1/503—Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor the devices being primarily intended to indicate the vehicle, or parts thereof, or to give signals, to other traffic for indicating other intentions or conditions, e.g. request for waiting or overtaking using luminous text or symbol displays in or on the vehicle, e.g. static text
    • B60Q1/5035—Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor the devices being primarily intended to indicate the vehicle, or parts thereof, or to give signals, to other traffic for indicating other intentions or conditions, e.g. request for waiting or overtaking using luminous text or symbol displays in or on the vehicle, e.g. static text electronic displays
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60Q—ARRANGEMENT OF SIGNALLING OR LIGHTING DEVICES, THE MOUNTING OR SUPPORTING THEREOF OR CIRCUITS THEREFOR, FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60Q1/00—Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor
    • B60Q1/26—Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor the devices being primarily intended to indicate the vehicle, or parts thereof, or to give signals, to other traffic
    • B60Q1/50—Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor the devices being primarily intended to indicate the vehicle, or parts thereof, or to give signals, to other traffic for indicating other intentions or conditions, e.g. request for waiting or overtaking
    • B60Q1/543—Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor the devices being primarily intended to indicate the vehicle, or parts thereof, or to give signals, to other traffic for indicating other intentions or conditions, e.g. request for waiting or overtaking for indicating other states or conditions of the vehicle

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  • the invention relates to the field of systems for providing information related to a vehicle stop occurrence, this information being provided to people outside the vehicle.
  • Such a system will be of utmost utility for vehicles riding on the public road network and which need to stop regularly for performing various tasks, sometimes hindering the traffic of other vehicles on the road.
  • the system can be for example very useful when mounted on delivery trucks, city buses or taxis.
  • the invention will be described hereunder in view of its application to a delivery truck which is used to deliver and/or pick-up goods at various locations along its journey during a work session, especially in urban areas.
  • Document US-5.426.414 discloses a display system for a truck whereby the driver can display a number of plain text predefined messages to following vehicles.
  • the messages are predefined and directed to various maneuvers which the truck may need to perform.
  • the driver selects the message to be activated, depending on the maneuver he needs to perform.
  • This system is mainly concerned with informing following vehicles of unexpected maneuvers in view of increased security.
  • US-5.808.565 discloses a system for automatically annunciating, to the passengers inside a bus, an upcoming stop based on a stored trip specification and a GPS current position.
  • the passengers i.e. only people inside the vehicle, are informed of the time remaining until the next stop.
  • the invention provides for a system for providing information related to a vehicle stop occurrence, comprising
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of the rear part of a truck having display means compatible with the system according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a diagram showing some of the components of a system according to the invention.
  • a delivery service such as a delivery truck or van
  • the system according to the invention could well be implemented in different applications, such as in buses, taxis, etc...
  • a delivery service performs both the delivery and the picks-up of items, and will include other complementary tasks.
  • the driver of the vehicle is also the person performing the deliveries so that he will be in this case the only one in this vehicle.
  • the delivery tasks are performed by several people on-board the vehicle, in which case any action performed by the driver can then certainly be performed by any one of the vehicle's occupants.
  • a delivery service vehicle is often used in the following way.
  • the driver will start his work session by obtaining from a delivery manager a list of deliveries to be performed during his work session.
  • This list will typically contain a series of locations where those deliveries are to be performed and the corresponding list of items that will be delivered at each of these various locations.
  • the driver then gets going and performs the work. He drives from one location to the other and, at each location, he stops and performs the scheduled delivery.
  • the list of deliveries to be performed can consist of a paper listing, it is nowadays more and more common that this list is at least partly or totally computerized and managed by a computerized transport information system.
  • the list of deliveries to be performed can be seen as a database having a series of predetermined stop occurrences and a corresponding series of tasks to be performed at each of theses stop occurrences.
  • the transport information system can produce the list of deliveries to be performed by one particular truck and/or driver.
  • This computerized list can be printed out in paper format but can also be delivered to the driver and/or to the truck in the electronic format.
  • the driver can for example be equipped with a portable electronic device such as a laptop computer or a handheld organizer and the list of deliveries can be transmitted electronically by any suitable communication means from the transport information system to that portable device.
  • the truck itself can be equipped with an onboard computer system suitable to receive and manage the list of deliveries.
  • such devices either held by the driver or integrated in the truck, help the driver to manage his work and can perform such tasks as arranging the deliveries in the most efficient order, helping in identifying the items to be delivered, reporting the state of completion of the deliveries etc. etc.
  • remote communication means which can establish communication between those devices and a central back-office computer system which runs the transport information system so that some information can be exchanged in both ways, at least from time to time, between the central computer system and the device.
  • each delivery can consist in various tasks not only limited to the mere delivery or pick-up of an item, but can comprise also other tasks such as receiving payments, filling-in paperwork etc... Therefore, depending on many factors, such as on the number of items to be delivered, the duration of each delivery may vary. That duration may of course be affected by other elements, such as the difficulty of access to the place where the delivery is to be performed. For example, the time needed to make a delivery can be highly impacted depending on whether the item has to be delivered at the front door of a building or if needs to be delivered at the top floor of a skyscraper.
  • the invention aims at using information related to the tasks to be performed as defined in the delivery list to send information to people outside the truck, especially regarding the amount of time which a delivery will require, and therefore the amount of time during which the vehicle will remain stopped.
  • the vehicle is equipped with a system comprising at least a means for providing information to people outside the vehicle.
  • a system comprising at least a means for providing information to people outside the vehicle.
  • FIG 1 it is shown the rear end of a delivery truck 10 which is equipped, on the left-hand side of the rear upper edge of the cargo body, with a display device 12.
  • a display device can for example be a multi-LED display system, an LCD screen, etc.
  • the means for providing information could comprise, in addition to, or in place of the display as shown in figure 1, means for providing audio information such as a loudspeaker.
  • the means for providing information could comprise several devices such as several display screens and could be located at various spots on the vehicle. In the case shown on figure 1, the display screen is best located for providing information to following vehicles.
  • the system according to the invention will rely on an electronic control unit 14 which will be able to send to a display interface 16 the piece of information which will be displayed on the display 12.
  • the electronic control unit 14 can be connected to one or several of:
  • a remote communication device 18 for establishing remote communication with a back-office 20 comprising the transport information system having a database 22; - an on-board database 24;
  • an on-board goods identification system 26 such as a barcode reading system or a RFID system
  • the driver interface preferably comprises for example a screen and an input device such as a keypad, a touch screen, a series of buttons, a point and select device, etc.;
  • a positioning system 30 for obtaining the vehicle's instant geographical position, such as for example a device able to receive and process signals from the Global Positioning System (GPS); - a navigation system 32, preferably connected to the positioning system 30, for matching the vehicle's instant geographical position to a map of the area within which the vehicle operates.
  • GPS Global Positioning System
  • a navigation system 32 preferably connected to the positioning system 30, for matching the vehicle's instant geographical position to a map of the area within which the vehicle operates.
  • the ECU 14 could also be connected to other elements of the vehicle, not the least to a central data bus such as those known as CAN-bus, by means of which the ECU 14 can be in communication with many other elements on-board the vehicle. And it should be noted that the ECU 14 could be physically spread among several physical ECU's and that the connection with the various elements listed above could be direct or indirect, could be achieved through wire connections, through one or several data buses, or through wireless communication means. For example, ECU 14 could be partially or wholly integrated within one or several of the elements listed above.
  • the back-office database 22 can suitably comprise information relating to the vehicle's trip organization, the delivery addresses, the goods to deliver, etc..
  • the on- board database 24 will contain similar information.
  • the information in the on-board database 24 can for example originate directly from the back-office database 22 and be directly transferred from one to the other by the remote communication means 18.
  • the system comprises means for determining a probable stop duration of the vehicle for a predetermined stop occurrence of the vehicle.
  • the on-board database 24 will contain at least a series of predetermined stop occurrences, such as a list of delivery locations and at least some data which is related to the corresponding stop duration for performing of the delivery.
  • This data can be directly the corresponding probable stop duration or can be data which, processed by an appropriate algorithm, allows the probable stop duration to be calculated, for each predetermined stop.
  • this data, related to the corresponding stop duration could also be stored in the off board database 22, but that makes mandatory the presence of the remote communication device 18, and the confidence that the remote communication can be effectively established at all times when necessary.
  • the probable stop duration can be obtained in several ways. First, it can be estimated by a knowledgeable person, for example directly the driver or another person with experience who, by knowing the type of delivery location and the tasks to be performed at the corresponding stop occurrence, for example the type of goods to be delivered, can provide an estimation of that duration. In any case, this estimation will be preferably performed before the beginning of the trip, especially in case it is not the driver who performs the estimation.
  • the probable stop duration can also be obtained by calculation.
  • the system can indeed comprise an algorithm which calculates the probable stop duration based on a number of parameters, for example related to the tasks to be performed at he corresponding stop occurrence, such as one or several of the number of items to be delivered, their weight, their type, the type of delivery location, the time at which the delivery is to take place, etc.
  • These parameters can be contained in the off-board database 22 and/or on the on-board database 24. If they are contained only on the off-board database 22, the algorithm to calculate a probable stop duration can be run by the back- office transportation system, prior to the transmission of information to the system onboard the vehicle. On the other hand, these parameters can also be sent to the on-board system and the algorithm can then be run by the ECU 14.
  • the system according to the invention will be able, upon occurrence of a predetermined stop as stored in the database, to retrieve and/or calculate a probable stop duration and to display that information on the display 12 for it to be seen by people outside the vehicle.
  • the displayed information is not necessarily the raw probable stop duration information. It can be information related to that duration.
  • the display of this information can be triggered in various manners.
  • the display can be triggered directly by the driver, for example immediately following his arrival at the location of a delivery.
  • the driver can select within a list the delivery place at which he has arrived, so that the system can then retrieve the corresponding probable stop duration and display it on display 12.
  • the ECU 14 can automatically determine if a predetermined stop location has been reached, thereby retrieving the corresponding stop duration time.
  • the system can be provided to automatically determine the arrival of the vehicle at a specific delivery location defined for example by its address.
  • other options are possible.
  • the system can comprise an on-board goods identification system 26.
  • the driver arrives at the delivery location, he first gathers all the items to be delivered at that location. He then identifies these items with the goods identification system, for example a bar code reader. Based on this identification, the ECU 14 can then, knowing the items to be delivered, and possibly other tasks to be performed, calculate the time needed for the delivery, which information is then used to display to people outside the vehicle the probable stop duration, or some related information.
  • the driver has the possibility to enter information in the system, for example through the driver interface 28, to alter the probable stop duration which is to be provided to the people outside the vehicle compared to the data contained in the database.
  • This correction factor can be integrated in the main algorithm for computing the probable duration time if this algorithm is run by the ECU 14, or it can be a separate correction algorithm run by ECU 14 to alter the previously estimated stop duration time.
  • the correction factor can account for various specific situations which the driver can determine upon arrival at the delivery location. For example, the driver can determine that, for various reasons, it will take more time or less time than the usual circumstances to perform the delivery. Therefore, this can help in providing the people outside the vehicle more accurate information as to the stop duration.
  • the display means are used to indicate to people outside the vehicle the probable time or distance until the vehicle will reach a destination where it will need to stop to perform a delivery.
  • the system will then comprise the ECU 14, the positioning system 30, the navigation system 32 and a database, preferably the on- board database 24, having a list of predetermined stop locations.
  • the navigation system can determine an estimated distance until the stop and/or an estimated time until the stop, at least one of which can be displayed on display 12.
  • such display will occur automatically as soon as the distance or time until the next stop is below a predetermined threshold.
  • the invention provides a very efficient means to solve or reduce conflicting situations by providing road users with relevant information regarding delivery operations.
  • the other road users having a better understanding of how long the delivery vehicle in front of them will remain stopped, will have more opportunity to adapt to the situation. This will calm conflicts, improve truck and delivery operations image, and improve driver working conditions. It will improve the friendliness of trucks in urban conditions.

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L’invention concerne un système destiné à fournir des informations liées à la survenue d’un arrêt de véhicule et caractérisé en ce qu’il comprend : - des moyens pour déterminer une durée probable d’arrêt dudit véhicule pour la survenue d’un arrêt prédéterminé du véhicule ; - des moyens permettant de fournir, lors de la survenue dudit arrêt prédéterminé, des informations liées à ladite durée probable de l’arrêt du véhicule, pendant lequel des personnes seront hors du véhicule.
PCT/IB2008/002978 2008-08-22 2008-08-22 Système pour fournir des informations liées à la survenue d’un arrêt d’un véhicule WO2010020832A1 (fr)

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