Shared car management device and shared car management method
By receiving user location and destination information, and using the map database to extract nearby shared car return stations and available shared car companies, the distance problem during shared car rental and return is solved, and the user experience and rental efficiency are improved.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- CN201810995414.0
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Patents(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2018-08-29
- Publication Date
- 2025-01-03
- Estimated Expiration
- 2038-08-29
AI Technical Summary
When users rent and return the existing shared car management system, the distance between the shared car rental station and the destination is often caused by the long distance between the shared car rental station and the destination, which wastes time and reduces the user experience.
By receiving user location and destination information, using the map database to extract nearby shared car return stations, specify available shared car companies, and send relevant information to the user terminal to ensure that the user distance is the shortest when renting and returning, and calculate the optimal route. To reduce return time.
Effectively consider the user's destination location, recommend appropriate shared car companies and rental stations to ensure that users can rent and return vehicles, improve user experience, and reduce return time.
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Abstract
Description
Technical Field
[0001] The present invention relates to a shared vehicle management device and a shared vehicle management method, and belongs to the field of shared transportation. Background Art
[0002] Nowadays, with the rapid development of electronic keys, satellite positioning systems and mobile communication technology, various shared car applications are becoming popular in society. Shared cars refer to multiple vehicles provided by shared car managers (or shared car management systems or shared car management service centers), and multiple unspecified users can reserve shared cars through various methods such as telephones, mobile phones or tablet computer client applications, and then obtain shared cars at rental return stations and go to one or more destinations desired by users. After use, the shared cars are parked at the rental return station and fees are paid according to the length of use or mileage.
[0003] In addition, in order to facilitate users to rent and return shared vehicles, shared car parking lots are usually concentrated near main roads, places with convenient transportation, and places with high traffic volume. For example, when people want to rent a shared car now, users often use the shared car application of a shared car company on a terminal device (for example, a smart phone, computer, or electronic device with other communication functions, etc.), and then make reservations and rent shared cars based on the number and type of shared cars at each shared car rental station displayed on the display screen of the program. Here, users can choose shared cars independently, or use the vehicles recommended by the shared car application, such as Figure 1 As shown, specifically here: users a1 and a2 send the reservation information of shared cars to the shared car reservation management center d through terminal devices s1, s2, etc. After receiving the reservation information, the shared car reservation management center d directly or through intelligent calculation matching according to the user's current location, and selects the shared car k according to the distance between the shared car and the user's current location, the rental price of the shared car, etc. (usually shared cars with short distances or low rental prices are recommended first) and transmits it to the user terminal devices s1 and s2 through the Internet or telephone network (not shown) for the user to choose to make a reservation. Then, when the user travels, he or she extracts and uses the vehicle according to the reserved information.
[0004] The above-mentioned prior art can better meet the needs of users for renting shared cars. In the above-mentioned prior art, the method of recommending shared cars to users is to recommend the shared car rental station closest to the user's current location based on the user's current location so that the user can rent a car. However, this often results in the user being able to rent a shared car from the rental station closest to their location, but when returning the shared car after arriving at the destination, the rental return station of the shared car is far away from the user's destination. Once this happens, the user has to go a long way to return the shared car to the shared car return station far away from the destination, and then return to the destination. This will waste the user's time, thereby reducing the user's satisfaction with the use of shared cars. Summary of the invention
[0005] The present invention is proposed to solve the above-mentioned problems existing in the prior art, and its purpose is to provide a shared car management device and a shared car management method that can effectively consider the distance between the user's destination location and the shared car rental station locations around him and recommend appropriate shared cars to the user.
[0006] The present invention provides a shared car management device, which can manage shared cars belonging to multiple shared car companies, including: a receiving unit, which receives the current location information and destination information of the user from the user terminal owned by the user of the above-mentioned shared car; a storage unit, which stores the information of the above-mentioned shared car and the reservation status information; a map database, which stores the location of the shared car rental station and the location of the shared car return station corresponding to each of the above-mentioned shared car companies; an extraction unit, which extracts the shared car company corresponding to the shared car return station that can be used near the above-mentioned destination according to the location of the above-mentioned shared car return station; a specifying unit, which specifies the shared car company corresponding to the shared car rental station located near the above-mentioned current location from the above-mentioned extracted shared car companies according to the map data stored in the above-mentioned map database; and a sending unit, which sends the shared car rental station information corresponding to the above-mentioned specified shared car company, the shared car rental station information, and the information of the shared cars that exist and can be used in the shared car rental station corresponding to the above-mentioned specified shared car company to the user terminal according to the above-mentioned reservation status.
[0007] In this way, after the user enters the current location information and destination information, the shared car management device will extract the shared car companies corresponding to the shared car rental stations within a certain range around the destination, and then lock the above-mentioned shared car companies according to the user's current location, and then send the shared car information that can be used by the shared car company to the user. This ensures that the user can use the car while also ensuring that the user can return the car conveniently, thereby ensuring the best user experience.
[0008] In addition, according to the above-mentioned specifying unit, when there are multiple shared car companies that are specified, the shared car return stations corresponding to each of the specified shared car companies and the shared car company closest to the above-mentioned destination are re-specified; the above-mentioned sending unit sends the shared car rental station information corresponding to the above-mentioned specified shared car company and the information of shared cars that exist and can be used in the shared car rental station corresponding to the above-mentioned specified shared car company to the user terminal according to the above-mentioned reservation status.
[0009] In this way, when there are multiple shared car companies locked according to the user's current location, the shared car company closest to the destination will be identified to ensure that the user can spend the least effort when returning the vehicle.
[0010] In addition, the above-mentioned shared car management device also has: a calculation unit, which plans a route from the above-mentioned current location through the shared car rental station corresponding to the above-mentioned shared car company, through the shared car return station corresponding to the above-mentioned shared car company, and arrives at the above-mentioned destination, and calculates the time required for the route; according to the above-mentioned specific unit, when there are multiple shared car companies that are specified, the shared car company with the shortest time required for the above-mentioned route will be re-specified; the above-mentioned sending unit sends the shared car rental station information corresponding to the above-mentioned specified shared car company, and the information of shared cars that exist and can be used in the shared car rental station corresponding to the above-mentioned specified shared car company to the user terminal according to the above-mentioned reservation status.
[0011] In this way, when there are multiple car-sharing companies locked according to the user's current location, the car-sharing company that takes the least time is identified by calculating the time required for the user to reach the destination, thereby ensuring that the user can spend the least time when returning the vehicle.
[0012] A shared car management method provided by the present invention comprises: a receiving step, receiving the current location information and destination information of the above-mentioned user from the user terminal owned by the user of the above-mentioned shared car; a storing step, storing the information of the above-mentioned shared car and the reservation status information; a map data storing step, storing the location of the shared car rental station and the location of the shared car return station corresponding to each of the above-mentioned shared car companies; an extraction step, extracting the shared car companies corresponding to the shared car return stations that can be used near the above-mentioned destination according to the locations of the above-mentioned shared car return stations; a specifying step, specifying the shared car companies corresponding to the shared car return stations located near the above-mentioned current location from the above-mentioned extracted shared car companies according to the map data stored in the above-mentioned map database; and a sending step, sending the shared car rental station information corresponding to the above-mentioned specified shared car company and the information of the shared cars that exist and can be used in the shared car rental station corresponding to the above-mentioned specified shared car company to the user terminal according to the above-mentioned reservation status.
[0013] Effects of the invention:
[0014] The present invention can effectively consider the distribution of shared car companies around the user's destination location and recommend an appropriate shared car to the user when the user rents a shared car. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0015] Figure 1 This is a schematic diagram of the structure of a shared car reservation system in the prior art.
[0016] Figure 2 This is a block diagram of the structure of the shared car management device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
[0017] Figure 3A , Figure 3B This is an example of map data storage in the shared car management device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
[0018] Figure 4 This is a display example of the shared car management device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
[0019] Figure 5 This is a flowchart of a processing method of the shared car management device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
[0020] Figure 6 This is a flowchart of a processing method of the shared car management device according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
[0021] Figure 7 This is a block diagram of the structure of a shared car management device according to a third embodiment of the present invention.
[0022] Figure 8 This is a flowchart of a processing method of the shared car management device according to the third embodiment of the present invention.
[0023] Description of reference numerals:
[0024] 1000: shared car reservation system; a1, a2: users; s1, s2: user terminals; d: shared car management device; k: shared car; 100A, 100B: shared car management device; 101: receiving unit; 102: storage unit; 103: map database; 104: extraction unit; 105: identification unit; 106: sending unit; 701: calculation unit. DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0025] Implementation Method 1
[0026] Hereinafter, the shared car management device and the shared car management method according to the first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the specific implementation, the components of the device may be changed, deleted or added according to the actual situation, and the steps of the method may be changed, deleted, added or changed in order according to the actual situation.
[0027] like Figure 2 As shown, the shared car management device 100A is composed of a receiving unit 101, a storage unit 102, a map database 103, an extraction unit 104, a specifying unit 105, a sending unit 106 and other components. Figure 2 The shared car management device shown is a shared car management device with the minimum structure that can achieve the effect of the present invention. The above components 101 to 106 can be composed of hardware, for example, any one or more of memories such as RAM, ROM, DSP (Digital Signal Processor), and CPU. Below, the structure of the shared car management device 100A necessary for implementing the present invention is described in detail.
[0028] The receiving unit 101 is composed of components such as a receiver with communication functions, and receives information by communicating with external devices (including wired communication and wireless communication). For example, it can receive shared car reservation request information, shared car return request information, user's current location information, destination information, etc. issued by a user terminal not shown in the figure. The above information received by the receiving unit 101 can be stored in a separate memory provided in the unit, or the received information can be sent to the storage unit 102 for storage, which is not limited here. For example, in this embodiment, if Figure 4 As shown, the receiving unit 101 receives the user's current location information: location P, and the destination location information: location G.
[0029] The storage unit 102 is composed of components with storage functions, such as ROM, RAM, etc. The storage unit 102 stores information about shared vehicles, including but not limited to license plate number, brand, model, color, and mileage. It also stores information about the reservation status and usage status of each shared vehicle, such as whether the shared vehicle is in use or idle. Here, the reservation status information of each shared vehicle stored in the shared vehicle storage unit 102 can be updated from time to time by communicating with the receiving unit 101.
[0030] The map database 103 is composed of components with storage media, such as ROM, RAM memory, etc. As shown in FIG3, the above-mentioned shared companies and the locations of shared car rental stations and shared car return stations are stored in a one-to-one correspondence in the map database. In this way, when any of the information of the above-mentioned shared car companies, the locations of shared car rental stations, and the locations of shared car return stations is input, the other two corresponding attribute information can be retrieved. Here, the shared car company can be composed of Chinese character strings, English character strings, and a combination of Chinese character strings and English character strings. As shown in FIG3, it can be "M shared car" and "N shared car company". The shared car rental station and shared car return station can be composed of specific address information, such as "Paoyazi rental station in Ganjingzi District, Xihong City" and "Hekouwan return station in Ganjingzi District, Dalian City"; or they can be directly composed of names, such as "A rental station" and "3 return station". The address information of the above-mentioned shared companies and shared car rental stations and the address information of shared car return stations stored in the map database are specifically shown in FIG3.
[0031] The extraction unit 104 extracts the shared car companies corresponding to the shared car return stations available near the destination according to the locations of the shared car return stations and the correspondence between the shared car companies and the locations of the shared car return stations stored in the map database 103. Here, the extraction unit 104 first determines the shared car return stations available within a certain range around the destination through the destination information received by the receiving unit 101. Here, Figure 4 As shown, the extraction unit 104 determines that the shared car return station that can be used within a certain range of the destination G is "1 Return Station"; then, based on the correspondence between the locations of each shared company and the shared car rental stations and the locations of the shared car return stations stored in the above-mentioned map database 103, the shared car companies corresponding to the above-mentioned determined shared car return stations are extracted. Here, as shown in Figure 3, the shared car company corresponding to the shared car return station "1 Return Station", namely "M Shared Car", is extracted.
[0032] The specific unit 105 is composed of hardware such as a CPU or a combination of software with processing functions and corresponding hardware. The specific unit 105 specifies the shared car company corresponding to the shared car rental station located near the current position among the extracted shared car companies. Figure 4 , the shared rental stations within a certain range of the user's current location "P" are "A rental station" and "C rental station". Further, according to Figure 3A Determine the shared car companies corresponding to "A rental station" and "C rental station", namely "M shared car" and "N shared car company", and then based on the shared car results extracted by the extraction unit 104, the "M shared car" company can be identified.
[0033] The sending unit 106 is composed of components such as a transmitter with communication functions, and can communicate with external devices (including wired communication and wireless communication) to complete the transmission of specific information. Here, the specific unit 105 specifies the shared car rental station within a certain range of the user's current location and corresponding to the company name extracted by the extraction unit 104, and then transmits the shared car information of the specified shared car rental station to the sending unit 106, and then the sending unit 106 sends the shared car information in the specified shared car rental station to the user terminal. Here, optimally, after the sending unit 106 receives the information of the specified shared car rental station, it determines whether the shared cars stored in the specified shared car rental station can be used, and sends the usable shared car information in the specified shared car rental station to the user terminal based on the judgment result. In addition, the sending unit 106 and the receiving unit 101 can be combined into a communication module having the receiving function of the receiving unit 101 and the sending function of the sending unit 106. Specifically, if Figure 4 As shown, when the specific unit 105 specifies the "M Shared Car" company, the location information of the shared car rental station and return station that can be used by the "M Shared Car" company is sent to the user. Here, the above-mentioned shared car rental station and return station location information can be directly sent to the user, or displayed on a map frequently used by the user, which is not limited here.
[0034] Below, refer to Figure 5 The flowchart of the shared car management device of the present invention is described.
[0035] First, the receiving unit 101 of the shared car management device acquires the user's current location information and destination information by communicating with an external device (step S500);
[0036] Next, when the extraction unit 104 determines the shared vehicle return station information existing within a certain range of the destination according to the destination information and the location information of the shared vehicle return station stored in the map database (step S501);
[0037] Then, the determination result of the extraction unit 104 is judged (step S502). When the judgment result is "there is no shared car return station within a certain range of the above-mentioned destination" (step S502: No), the processing is terminated; when the judgment result is: "there is a shared car return station within a certain range of the above-mentioned destination" (step S502: Yes), continue to execute the next steps.
[0038] Then, the extraction unit 104 obtains the shared car company corresponding to the determined shared car return station according to the shared car return station information determined in step S502 and in combination with the map database (step S503); then, according to the shared car company, extracts the shared car rental station information corresponding to the shared car company (step S504);
[0039] Then, the extraction result of the above step S504 is judged (step S505). When no shared car rental station corresponding to the shared car company is extracted, the processing is terminated (step S505: No); when a shared car rental station corresponding to the shared car company is extracted, the next step is continued.
[0040] Then, the identifying unit 105 identifies the shared cars corresponding to the shared car rental stations extracted above and within a certain range of the user's current location according to the map database (step S506);
[0041] Finally, the sending unit 106 sends the shared car information currently available to users in the shared car rental stations corresponding to the above-mentioned specific company, the shared car rental station information extracted corresponding to the above-mentioned specific company, and the shared car return station information to the user terminal according to the reservation usage of the shared car stored in the storage unit (step S507).
[0042] Implementation Method 2
[0043] Next, the second embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail. Figure 6 This embodiment is described in detail. Steps S600 to S606 are Figure 5 Steps S500 to S506 are the same as in the above, and are not described again here. The description will start from step S607.
[0044] First, according to the number of shared car companies identified in step S606, determine whether the identified shared car companies are multiple (step S607). When the judgment result of step S507 is negative, that is, when the number of shared car companies identified in step S606 is only one (step S607: No), directly execute step S609; when the judgment result of step S607 is positive, that is, when the number of shared car companies identified in step S606 is greater than one (step S607: Yes), execute step S608;
[0045] Furthermore, when the number of shared car companies identified in step S606 is greater than one, the identifying unit 105 re-identifies the shared car return stations corresponding to the identified shared car companies and the shared car companies closest to the destination (step S608).
[0046] Finally, the shared car rental station information and shared car return station information corresponding to the above-mentioned specific shared car company and the shared car information that can now be provided to the user based on the reserved use of the shared car stored in the storage unit are sent to the user terminal (step S609).
[0047] Implementation Method 3
[0048] Figure 7 This is a structural block diagram of the third embodiment of the present invention. Figure 7 This embodiment will be described in detail. As compared with the shared car management device 100A, which is a configuration that realizes the present invention to the minimum extent, the configuration that is different from the shared car management device 100A will be described in detail, and the description of the same configuration will be omitted.
[0049] The shared car management device 100B in this embodiment is based on the shared car management device 100A, and a calculation unit 701 is added. The calculation unit 701 is composed of hardware with calculation and processing functions, such as a CPU, or it can also be composed of a combination of hardware and corresponding software programs with calculation and processing functions. The calculation unit 701 first plans a route from the current location of the above-mentioned user through the shared car rental station corresponding to the above-mentioned shared car company, and then through the shared car return station corresponding to the above-mentioned shared car company to the above-mentioned destination according to the map data, and then calculates the time required for the above-mentioned route. Here, the planning method of planning a route from the current location of the user through the above-mentioned shared car rental station, the shared car return station and finally to the above-mentioned destination belongs to the well-known and commonly used existing technology, which will not be repeated here. According to the above-mentioned planned route, the time required for the user to complete the entire route is calculated. Here, because the location of the shared car rental station specified in this embodiment is within a certain range of the user, when reaching the shared car rental station from the user's current location, the travel mode can be defaulted to walking, and then calculated according to the time (Ta) required for walking in the prior art; when reaching the shared car return station from the shared car rental station, the travel mode can be defaulted to driving, and the time (Tb) required can be calculated according to factors such as traffic conditions in the prior art; finally, after arriving at the shared car return station, since the location of the shared car return station is within a certain range of the user's destination, the travel mode here is defaulted to walking, and as mentioned above, it is calculated according to the time required for walking in the prior art (Tc); finally, based on the calculated times, the total time added up (T=Ta+Tb+Tc) is the time required for the user to reach the destination from the user's current location.
[0050] Below, combined with the specific flowchart, that is, refer to Figure 8 This embodiment is described in detail. Steps S800 to S806 are Figure 5Steps S500 to S506 are the same as in the above, and are not described again here. The description will start from step S807.
[0051] First, the calculation unit 701 plans a route from the current location via the shared car rental station corresponding to the specified shared car company, via the shared car return station corresponding to the specified shared car company, and then reaches the destination based on the map data, and calculates the time required for the route (step S807).
[0052] Then, according to the number of shared car companies identified in step S806, it is determined whether there are multiple shared car companies identified (step S808). The execution of this step can be calculated and determined by the calculation unit 701, or by a separate component with calculation function, which is not limited here. When the judgment result of step S808 is negative, that is, when the number of shared car companies identified in step S806 is only one (step S808: No), step S810 is directly executed; when the judgment result of step S808 is positive, that is, when the number of shared car companies identified in step S806 is greater than one (step S808: Yes), step S809 is executed.
[0053] Furthermore, when the number of shared car companies identified in step S806 is greater than one, the identifying unit 105 re-identifies the shared car return stations corresponding to the identified shared car companies and the shared car companies closest to the destination (step S809).
[0054] Finally, the shared car rental station information, shared car return station information and the reserved use of shared cars stored in the storage unit corresponding to the above-mentioned shared car company are sent to the user terminal (step S810).
[0055] The specific embodiments and specific examples of the present invention are described above with reference to the accompanying drawings. Among them, the specific embodiments and specific examples described above are only specific examples of the present invention, which are used to understand the present invention and are not used to limit the scope of the present invention. Those skilled in the art can make various deformations, combinations and reasonable omissions of elements to the specific embodiments and specific examples based on the technical ideas of the present invention, and the resulting methods are also included in the scope of the present invention. For example, the above-mentioned embodiments and specific examples can be combined with each other, and the embodiments formed by the combination are also included in the scope of the present invention.
[0056] Among them, the steps included in the priority application determination method of the above-mentioned embodiments of the present invention can also be implemented as the steps included in the priority application determination program, or as a recording medium recording the above-mentioned priority application determination program, and the same technical effect can be obtained.
Claims
1. A shared car management device, comprising: A shared car management device for managing shared cars belonging to multiple shared car companies; The invention is characterized by: A receiving unit receives the current location information and destination information of the user from a user terminal owned by the user of the shared car; A storage unit, storing the above-mentioned shared car information and reservation status information; A map database storing the location of the shared car rental station and the location of the shared car return station corresponding to each of the above-mentioned shared car companies; An extraction unit extracts a shared car company corresponding to a shared car return station that can be used near the destination according to the location of the shared car return station; a specifying unit, which specifies, from among the extracted shared car companies, a shared car company corresponding to a shared car rental station located near the current position, based on map data of a correspondence relationship between shared car companies and locations of shared car return stations stored in the map database; The sending unit sends the shared car rental station information and shared car return station information corresponding to the above-mentioned specific shared car company and the information of the shared cars that exist and can be used in the shared car rental station corresponding to the above-mentioned specific shared car company to the user terminal according to the above-mentioned reservation status.
2. The shared car management device according to claim 1, characterized in that: According to the identification unit, when there are multiple identified shared car companies, the shared car return stations corresponding to the identified shared car companies and the shared car companies closest to the destination are identified again; The sending unit sends the shared car rental station information corresponding to the specified shared car company and the information of the shared cars existing and available at the shared car rental station corresponding to the specified shared car company to the user terminal according to the reservation status.
3. The shared car management device according to claim 1, characterized in that: Also features: A calculation unit, planning a route from the current location via the shared car rental station corresponding to the specified shared car company, via the shared car return station corresponding to the specified shared car company, and then arriving at the destination, and calculating the time required for the route; According to the identification part, when there are multiple identified car-sharing companies, the car-sharing company with the shortest time required for the route is identified again; The sending unit sends the shared car rental station information corresponding to the specified shared car company and the information of the shared cars existing and available at the shared car rental station corresponding to the specified shared car company to the user terminal according to the reservation status.
4. A shared car management method, comprising: A receiving step, receiving the current location information and destination information of the user from a user terminal owned by the user of the shared car; A storage step, storing the shared vehicle information and reservation status information; A map data storage step, storing the location of the shared car rental station and the location of the shared car return station corresponding to each of the above-mentioned shared car companies; An extraction step, extracting the shared car companies corresponding to the shared car return stations available near the destination according to the locations of the shared car return stations; A specific step, based on the map data of the correspondence between the shared car companies and the locations of the shared car return stations stored in the map database, from the extracted shared car companies, a shared car company corresponding to the shared car return station located near the current location is specified; The sending step includes sending the shared car rental station information corresponding to the above-mentioned specific shared car company, the shared car return station information, and the information of the shared cars that exist and can be used in the shared car rental station corresponding to the above-mentioned specific shared car company to the user terminal according to the above-mentioned reservation status.