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METHOD FOR MONITORING AND CONTROLLING VEHICLE ROUTES IN ORDER TO OPTIMISE THE USE OF THE LOAD CAPACITY THEREOF

  • US 20160342946A1
  • Filed: 12/30/2014
  • Published: 11/24/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2014
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. Procedure for an entity to monitor and control a course of a vehicle, that has a device in communication with the entity, an initial route towards a vehicle destination point and an initial vacant load transport capacity, to utilize said vacant capacity by at least one assignment to said course of a load transport request between a request origin point and a request destination point, characterized in thata) first, the vehicle'"'"'s device indicates to the entity the current position of the vehicle and the value of a parameter of deviation allowed from the initial route of the vehicle;

  • b) then, the entity establishes a reach zone of the vehicle, as a function of its position and the value of a parameter of pick-up deviation proportional to the deviation allowed from the route of the vehicle;

    c) later on, when a request origin point falls within the reach zone of the vehicle, the entity declares said request as candidate to be transported in the vehicle if a required load capacity of the request is less than a current vacant load capacity of the vehicle;

    d) then, the entity declares said candidate request as suitable to be transported in the vehicle if the distance from the request destination point to a planned route of the vehicle is less than the value of a parameter of delivery deviation proportional to the deviation allowed from the route of the vehicle;

    e) then, the entity assigns to the course of the vehicle the transport of the suitable request, adding to the planned route of the vehicle said request origin point as a pick-up point of its load and said request destination point as a delivery point of said load;

    f) afterwards, when the device sends to the entity a message of notification of the arrival of the vehicle to some of the planned route points, said point is deleted from the route;

    g) then, the entity recalculates the load capacity that remains vacant in the vehicle, taking into account the initial capacity, the notifications of arrival to pick-up and delivery points of its route, and the required load capacity of each transport request assigned; and

    h) finally, steps b to g are reiterated until the vehicle reaches its destination point, assigning the entity along the course a plurality of transport requests, thanks to which optimizes the use of its vacant transport capacity.

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