VEHICLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE-SHARING SERVICE
First Claim
1. A vehicle management system for managing a vehicle-sharing service of one or more vehicles at one or more vehicle service stations, the vehicle management system comprising:
- a reservation request input configured to receive a vehicle reservation request from an external computing device;
a reservation processor configured to allocate a vehicle to the vehicle reservation request;
a result transmitter configured to transmit a reservation result including a rental start time of the vehicle to the external computing device; and
a cost calculator configured to calculate an operation cost of the vehicle-sharing service, whereinthe reservation processor is further configured to perform either a simple process or the simple process and an optimization process, for a vehicle allocation, whereinthe simple process allocates the vehicle within a first processing time by either omitting a calculation of the operation cost by the cost calculator or simplifying the calculation of the operation cost by the cost calculator, andthe optimization process allocates the vehicle within a second processing time using the cost calculator to calculate the operation cost based on a given condition to minimize the operation cost, and whereinthe first processing time is shorter than the second processing time.
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Abstract
A vehicle management system for handling vehicle reservations of a vehicle-sharing service includes a reservation request input device, a reservation result transmitter, and a reservation processor. When a new vehicle reservation request is input to the reservation request input device, the reservation processor performs a simple process for a vehicle allocation which allocates a vehicle to the new vehicle reservation request, and the result transmitter transmits a reservation result to a user. When the time duration after the performance of the simple process and before the rental start time for the new vehicle reservation is equal to or greater than a threshold value, the reservation processor performs an optimization process to update the vehicle allocation for the new vehicle reservation request, quickly presenting a reservation result to the user while reducing an operation cost of the vehicle-sharing service.
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10 Claims
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1. A vehicle management system for managing a vehicle-sharing service of one or more vehicles at one or more vehicle service stations, the vehicle management system comprising:
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a reservation request input configured to receive a vehicle reservation request from an external computing device; a reservation processor configured to allocate a vehicle to the vehicle reservation request; a result transmitter configured to transmit a reservation result including a rental start time of the vehicle to the external computing device; and a cost calculator configured to calculate an operation cost of the vehicle-sharing service, wherein the reservation processor is further configured to perform either a simple process or the simple process and an optimization process, for a vehicle allocation, wherein the simple process allocates the vehicle within a first processing time by either omitting a calculation of the operation cost by the cost calculator or simplifying the calculation of the operation cost by the cost calculator, and the optimization process allocates the vehicle within a second processing time using the cost calculator to calculate the operation cost based on a given condition to minimize the operation cost, and wherein the first processing time is shorter than the second processing time. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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