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Vehicle fleet routing system

  • US 9,037,406 B2
  • Filed: 10/09/2012
  • Issued: 05/19/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for generating a user interface for a manager of vehicles in a vehicle fleet and controlling routing of the vehicles between stop locations in a geographic region, the user interface providing functionality for the manager to interactively assign and move locations of individual points on a graphical road map, the individual points defining territories around the individual points that are serviceable by the vehicles, the territories being depicted on the graphical road map as shadows that are darker closer to the individual points and paler farther from the individual points according to increasing driving time from the individual points, the system comprising:

  • a vehicle management system comprising computer hardware, the vehicle management system configured to;

    receive, from a user device, selection of an optional mode of operation corresponding to a technique for generating territories associated with respective vehicles in a vehicle fleet;

    electronically generate a user interface for presentation by the user device to a user of the user device, the user interface comprising functionality, when operating in the optional mode of operation, to depict a plurality of predetermined stop locations for at least first and second vehicles of the vehicle fleet on a graphical road map, for the user to specify a first user identification of locations of first and second points on the graphical road map, and for the user to specify a second user indication to move the location of the first point to a different location;

    receive, from the user device, the first user identification of the locations of the first and second points;

    determine a first plurality of concentric areas on the graphical road map corresponding to increasing driving time from the location of the first point and a second plurality of concentric areas on the graphical road map corresponding to increasing driving time from the location of the second point;

    wherein the user interface further comprises functionality to;

    depict a first territory of the territories surrounding the location of the first point as a first shadow of a first color on the graphical road map and a second territory of the territories surrounding the location of the second point as a second shadow of a second color different from the first color on the graphical road map, the first shadow being darker in at least one of the first plurality of concentric areas closer to the location of the first point and paler in at least one of the first plurality of concentric areas farther away from the location of the first point, the second shadow being darker in at least one of the second plurality of concentric areas closer to the location of the second point and paler in at least one of the second plurality of concentric areas farther away from the location of the second point, anddepict the locations of the plurality of predetermined stop locations classified as within the first territory in the first color and the locations of the plurality of predetermined stop locations classified as within the second territory in the second color on the graphical road map,wherein in response to receiving the second user indication to move the first point to the different location, the vehicle management system is configured to;

    determine a third plurality of concentric areas on the graphical road map corresponding to increasing driving time from the different location, andcause the user interface to depict the first territory as surrounding the different location as a third shadow of the first color on the graphical road map, the third shadow being darker in at least one of the third plurality of concentric areas closer to the different location and paler in at least one of the third plurality of concentric areas farther away from the different location.

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