Vehicle dispatching system and vehicle dispatching processing apparatus

• US 20030065556A1
• Filed: 03/14/2002
• Published: 04/03/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Takanashi, Taro, Aoyama, Susumu
• Application Number:
  US10/096,646
• Publication Number:
  US 20030065556A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/13
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/202 Dispatching vehicles on the basis of a location, e.g. taxi dispatching

Abstract

A vehicle dispatching system for deciding, at a vehicle dispatching center, an appropriate taxi out of a plurality of taxis based upon a request for dispatching a vehicle, while reducing the monetary risks on the side offering the vehicles involved in dispatching the vehicles. The system comprises a communication unit for transmitting a request for dispatching a vehicle including the riding conditions; a vehicle dispatching center which makes reference to a service status data base storing the service status of the vehicles, and decides the dispatching of a vehicle that matches the riding conditions; and a bank organization which collects a charge involved in the dispatching of the vehicle before the vehicle selected to be dispatched arrives at a place where it was requested to dispatch the vehicle.

Claims

1. A vehicle dispatching system comprising:

a communication unit for transmitting a request for dispatching a vehicle inclusive of the riding conditions;

a vehicle dispatching center which makes reference to a service status data base storing the service status of the vehicles, and decides the dispatching of a vehicle that matches the riding conditions; and

a bank organization which collects a charge involved in the dispatching of the vehicle before the vehicle decided to be dispatched arrives at a place to where it is requested to dispatch the vehicle.

2. A vehicle dispatching processing apparatus comprising:

a reception unit for receiving a request for dispatching a vehicle inclusive of the riding conditions from a communication unit;

a vehicle dispatching control unit which makes reference to a service status data base storing the service status of the vehicle, and decides the dispatching of a vehicle that matches the riding conditions; and

a transmission unit for transmitting, to a communication unit, the collection of a charge involved in the dispatching of a vehicle before the vehicle that is selected to be dispatched arrives at a place where it was requested to dispatch the vehicle.

3. A vehicle dispatching processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said charge is a picking-up fee.

4. A computer readable storage medium containing instructions comprising:

receiving, at a reception unit, a request for dispatching a vehicle inclusive of the riding conditions from a communication unit;

making reference, at a vehicle dispatching control unit, to a service status data base storing the service status of the vehicle and deciding the dispatching of a vehicle that matches the riding conditions; and

transmitting, at a transmission unit, an information, to a communication unit, of the already paid charge involved in the dispatching of a vehicle before the vehicle that is decided to be dispatched arrives at a place to where it is requested to dispatch the vehicle.

5. A computer program product for use in conjunction with a computer, the computer program product comprising:

a reception control program, at a reception unit, for receiving a request for dispatching a vehicle inclusive of the riding conditions from a communication unit;

a vehicle dispatching control program, at a vehicle dispatching control unit, for making reference to a service status data base storing the service status of the vehicles and deciding the dispatching of a vehicle that is adapted to the riding conditions; and

a transmission control program, at a transmission unit, for transmitting an information, to a communication unit, of the already paid charge involved in the dispatching of a vehicle before the vehicle that is selected to be dispatched arrives at a place where it was requested to dispatch the vehicle.