CARPOOL FARE ORGANIZER AND METHOD FOR GENERATING CARPOOL FARES

• US 20120290507A1
• Filed: 08/09/2011
• Published: 11/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
• Original Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
• Inventors: Sun, Hung-Min, Ku, Bying-He, Li, Chi-ming, Cheng, Chia Yun
• Application Number:
  US13/205,919
• Publication Number:
  US 20120290507A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/417
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 13/04 for indicating fare or state of hire

Abstract

A carpool fare organizer is useful when there is at least one passenger and comprises a distance recording unit, a passenger calculating unit, a fare calculating module and at least one display device. The distance recording unit records a get-in distance, a get-out distance and an accumulated distance of each passenger. The passenger calculating unit calculates a number of passengers. The fare calculating module calculates an original fare, an accumulated discount and an economical fare. A method for generating carpool fares comprises steps of recording a get-in distance, a get-out distance and an accumulated distance of each passenger and a number of passengers, and calculating an economical fare with the get-in distance, the get-out distance, the accumulated distance and the number of passengers.

Claims

1. A carpool fare organizer used by at least one passenger in a car using a carpool comprising

a distance recording unit recording a get-in distance, a get-out distance and an accumulated distance of each passenger;

a passenger calculating unit calculating a number of passengers;

a fare calculating module being connected to the distance recording unit and the passenger calculating unit and calculating an original fare, an accumulated discount and an economical fare of each passenger with the get-in distance, the get-out distance, the accumulated distance and the number of passengers, wherein the original fare is a fare without the accumulated discount, the accumulated discount is a fare saved by the carpool, the economical fare is a fare with the accumulated discount and varies dynamically based on the number of passengers and the accumulated distance; and

at least one display device being connected to the distance recording unit and the fare calculating module and displaying the accumulated distance, the original fare, the accumulated discount and the economical fare.

2. The carpool fare organizer as claimed in claim 1, wherein the fare calculating module further saves a start section, at least one passenger in a carpool section P, at least one section length D_i, a basic fare B, a section unit price M, at least one carpool section economical discount S_i and a start section economical discount Z, i is an index and is an integer in a range of 1 to P, the carpool section economical discount S_i varies based on the number of passengers, the accumulated discount is

3. The carpool fare organizer as claimed in claim 1, wherein the fare calculating module further saves at least one present fare when a passenger traveling alone in the car at least one passenger carpool section of non-first passenger p, at least one section length of non-first passenger d_i, a share interest rate of passenger b and at least one section unit price of non-first passenger M_ij, the passenger calculating unit further saves a number of non-first passengers of each section C_i, i is an index and an integer in a range of 1 to p, j is an index and an integer in a range of 1 to the number of passengers, the accumulated discount is

4. The carpool fare organizer as claimed in claim 1, wherein the car travels at a car speed and has a lag speed, the car speed is variable when the car is traveling, the lag speed is a fixed value for charging an additional fare when the car is in slow traffic, and the system for carpool fares further comprises

a second counting unit being connected to the fare calculating module and the display device and counting a lag time that the car speed less than the lag speed;

and

at least one pause device being connected to the distance recording unit and the second counting unit and pausing the distance recording unit and the second counting unit.

5. The carpool fare apparatus as claimed in claim 4, wherein the display device further displays the lag time.

6. The carpool fare apparatus as claimed in claim 4, wherein the economical fare further comprises a lag fare, the lag fare is f dollars per h seconds, the second counting unit recounts the lag time when the car speed is greater than the lag speed, the fare calculating module further saves at least one lag time of passenger T_i, the lag fare per h seconds of each passenger is f×

T_i/Σ

_i=1^NT_i dollars.

7. The carpool fare apparatus as claimed in claim 4, wherein the economical fare further comprises a lag fare, the lag fare is f dollars per h seconds, the second counting unit recounts the lag time when the car speed is greater than the lag speed, the fare calculating module further saves at least one number of lag counting section of passenger R and at least one second of lag counting section E_i, the passenger calculating unit further saves at least one passenger in lag counting section V_i, i is an index in a range of 1 to R, and the lag fare of each passenger in h seconds is Σ

_i=1^Rf×

(E_i/h)×

(1/V_i) dollars.

8. A method of generating carpool fares used by at least one passenger in a car using a carpool scheme and comprising steps of

recording a get-in distance, a get-out distance and an accumulated distance of each passenger and a number of passengers;

and

calculating an economical fare with the get-in distance, the get-out distance, the accumulated distance and the number of passengers.

9. The method of generating carpool fares as claimed in claim 8, wherein

the car travels at a car speed and has a lag speed, the car speed is variable when the car is traveling, the lag speed is a fixed value for charging an additional fare when the car is in slow traffic, and

the method for carpool fares further comprises steps of

recording a lag time when the car speed is less than the lag speed;

and

calculating a lag fare with the lag time and adding the lag fare to the economical fare.