Order Distribution Method and System in Global Travel

Abstract

The present invention provides an order distribution method and system for global travel, which is applied to an intermediate platform in a global travel system. The system includes a car-hailing terminal, a vehicle dispatching terminal, and an intermediate platform. The car-hailing terminal belongs to a first administrative region, and the vehicle dispatching terminal belongs to a second administrative region. The method includes receiving a car-hailing application sent by the car-hailing terminal, parsing a plurality of target sub-paths that require vehicle dispatching from the car-hailing application, generating sub-orders according to the path characteristics of the target sub-paths, and sending the sub-orders to the vehicle dispatching terminal corresponding to the target sub-paths. The vehicle dispatching terminal is used to dispatch vehicles for users according to the sub-orders and return vehicle dispatching information to the car-hailing terminal. By applying the embodiments of the present invention, users can enjoy a seamless and continuous travel experience of cross-platform public transportation.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The present invention relates to the technical field of official vehicle management, and particularly to an order distribution method and system in global travel. Background Art

[0002] With the advancement of the public vehicle reform in China, most cities and counties have established public vehicle management platforms or used the travel services provided by leasing companies. However, the services of these platforms or leasing companies are generally limited to the local city. When staff need to travel on official business to other cities, it is difficult to use the local public vehicle services.

[0003] The multimodal transport contract referred to in the Maritime Law "means a contract under which the multimodal transport operator is responsible for transporting the goods from the place of receipt to the place of destination and delivering them to the consignee by two or more different modes of transport, one of which is sea transport, and for collecting the full freight." Multimodal transport has developed on the basis of container transport. This mode of transport does not have new channels and tools, but uses modern organizational means to organically combine various single modes of transport, breaking the boundaries of each transport area, and is the result of the application of modern management in the transport industry. In the existing multimodal transport system, the shipper signs a transport contract with the multimodal transport operator, obtains only one multimodal transport document from the multimodal transport operator, and pays the freight to the multimodal transport operator at only one rate; the multimodal transport operator then signs a transport contract with the carrier for the specific transport section. This avoids the disadvantages of multiple procedures and easy errors in the multi-leg transportation of a single mode of transport, and provides convenience for the shipper to determine the transport cost and the in-transit time of the goods.

[0004] However, in the existing multimodal transport system, the shipper signs a service contract with the multimodal transport operator, who is equivalent to a middleman, or forms a de facto service relationship, and does not directly form a service relationship with the carrier. In addition, after each transport link is completed, the carrier of the previous transport link has to interface with the multimodal transport operator, and then the multimodal transport operator interfaces with the carrier of the next transport link. Moreover, when settling the fees, the shipper pays the fees to the multimodal transport operator, and the multimodal transport operator then pays the fees to the specific carriers in installments, and the financial relationship is relatively complex. Therefore, the existing multimodal transport system has problems of complex transport processes and settlement processes. Summary of the Invention

[0005] The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is how to provide an order distribution system in global travel to achieve cross-system vehicle scheduling.

[0006] The present invention solves the above technical problem by the following technical means:

[0007] The present invention provides a first order distribution method in global travel, which is applied to an intermediate platform in a global travel system. The system includes a car-hailing terminal, a vehicle dispatching terminal, and an intermediate platform. The car-hailing terminal belongs to the first administrative region, and the vehicle dispatching terminal belongs to the second administrative region;

[0008] Receive a car-hailing application sent by the car-hailing terminal, and parse out several target sub-paths that require vehicle dispatching from the car-hailing application. Among them, all trajectory points on a single target sub-path are within one administrative region;

[0009] Generate a sub-order according to the path characteristics of the target sub-path, and send the sub-order to the vehicle dispatching terminal corresponding to the target sub-path. The vehicle dispatching terminal is used to dispatch a vehicle for the user according to the sub-order and return the vehicle dispatching information to the car-hailing terminal. Among them, the path characteristics include: starting point, ending point, and car-hailing time period.

[0010] Optionally, the parsing out several target sub-paths that require vehicle dispatching from the car-hailing application includes:

[0011] Parse the car-hailing application, where the car-hailing application includes several path entries with corresponding paths connected end to end;

[0012] After sorting the path entries in the order of travel to obtain an entry sequence, judge whether the boarding point of the user for the first path entry is a transportation hub in the first administrative region. If not, add the path from the boarding point to the transportation hub to the set of target sub-paths, and use the next path entry as the current path entry; if so, use the next path entry as the current path entry;

[0013] Judge whether the starting point of the current path entry coincides with the ending point of the previous path entry; if not, add the path from the ending point of the previous path entry to the starting point of the current path entry to the set of target sub-paths; if so, use the next path entry of the current path entry as the current path entry, and return to execute the step of judging whether the starting point of the current path entry coincides with the ending point of the previous path entry until the last path entry;

[0014] Judge whether the ending point of the car-hailing application coincides with the ending point of the last path entry. If so, execute the step of generating a sub-order according to the path characteristics of the target sub-path; if not, add the path from the ending point of the last path entry to the ending point of the car-hailing application to the set of target sub-paths.

[0015] Optionally, the parsing out several target sub-paths that require vehicle dispatching from the car-hailing application includes:

[0016] Parse out the geographical nodes in the vehicle usage application, where the geographical nodes include: a starting point, passing points, and an ending point, and the geographical nodes are positioning points pre-entered by the user;

[0017] Determine the administrative divisions where each geographical node is located, and establish branch paths from each geographical node to the transportation hub nodes within the corresponding administrative division, where the transportation hub nodes include one or a combination of railway stations, bus stations, docks, and airports;

[0018] Take the branch paths as target sub-paths.

[0019] Optionally, when establishing the branch paths from each geographical node to the transportation hub nodes within the corresponding administrative division, the method further includes:

[0020] Connect the transportation hub nodes in the administrative divisions where each geographical node is located using public transportation paths.

[0021] Optionally, the parsing out a number of target sub-paths that require vehicle dispatching from the vehicle usage application includes:

[0022] Plan the user's travel path according to the vehicle usage information included in the vehicle usage application;

[0023] Take the transportation hub nodes in each administrative division passed by the user's travel path as cut-off points, and cut the backbone path into a number of preliminary sub-paths;

[0024] For each preliminary sub-path, determine whether the preliminary sub-path is entirely within the same administrative division. If so, add the preliminary sub-path to the set of target sub-paths.

[0025] Optionally, the planning the user's travel path according to the vehicle usage information included in the vehicle usage application includes:

[0026] Parse out the starting point and the ending point in the vehicle usage application; determine the administrative divisions where the starting point and the ending point are located respectively, and establish branch paths from the starting point and the ending point to the transportation hub nodes within the corresponding administrative division, where the transportation hub nodes include one or a combination of railway stations, bus stations, docks, and airports;

[0027] Connect the starting point and the ending point using a backbone path;

[0028] Take the transportation hub nodes as connection points, and connect the backbone path and the branch paths into the user's travel path.

[0029] Optionally, the connecting the starting point and the ending point using a backbone path includes:

[0030] Connect the starting point and the ending point using a long-distance path, obtain the administrative divisions passed by the long-distance path, and obtain the transportation hubs in the administrative division;

[0031] Taking each transportation hub as a node and aiming at the least number of transfers, path planning is performed on the updated long-distance path to obtain the backbone path.

[0032] Optionally, generating a sub-order according to the path characteristics of the target sub-path includes:

[0033] Taking the starting point of the target sub-path as the starting point of the sub-order, taking the ending point of the target sub-path as the ending point of the sub-order, taking the boarding time and alighting time of the target sub-path as the start time and end time of the sub-order respectively, and taking the additional vehicle use requirements of the vehicle use application as the additional vehicle use requirements of the sub-order;

[0034] According to the data structure used by the bus management platform in the administrative region where the target sub-path is located, converting the necessary fields of the sub-order into target structured data, and then encapsulating the target structured data into a sub-order, where the necessary fields of the sub-order include: starting point, ending point, start time, end time, and additional vehicle use requirements.

[0035] The present invention also provides a second order distribution method in global travel, which is applied to a vehicle scheduling terminal in a global travel system, and the method includes:

[0036] Obtaining the target structured data sent by the intermediate platform as described in any one of the above;

[0037] Parsing the target structured data to obtain the user's vehicle use application, and obtaining information from the corresponding second server and dispatching a vehicle for the user, where the fields include: departure place, official destination, vehicle use period, number of passengers, and vehicle type.

[0038] The present invention provides an order distribution system in global travel, and the system includes:

[0039] A car-hailing terminal, where the car-hailing terminal belongs to the first administrative region;

[0040] An intermediate platform as described in any one of the above;

[0041] And a vehicle scheduling terminal, where the vehicle scheduling terminal belongs to the second administrative region.

[0042] The advantages of the present invention are:

[0043] Applying the embodiments of the present invention, when a user needs to travel on a business trip across administrative regions, the user only needs to submit a car-hailing application on the car-hailing terminal. The intermediate platform automatically analyzes multiple target sub-paths included in the car-hailing application, generates sub-orders for each target sub-path, and then dispatches vehicles. When the user arrives at the boarding point corresponding to the target sub-path, the bus management platform corresponding to the sub-order has already dispatched the allocated vehicle to the boarding point for waiting, and the user can enjoy a seamless and continuous travel experience of cross-platform buses.

[0044] Moreover, in the present invention, the user only needs to submit a car-hailing application once, without downloading and registering the bus APPs of other administrative regions to apply for a car. The solution of the present invention is relatively simple to operate, and uses buses to provide business travel services for business travelers across administrative regions, improving the vehicle utilization rate. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0045] Figure 1 It is a flowchart of the order distribution method in the global travel provided by the embodiments of the present invention;

[0046] Figure 2 It is a schematic diagram of the architecture of the order distribution system in the global travel provided by the embodiments of the present invention;

[0047] Figure 3 It is a first schematic diagram of the APP interface in the global travel system provided by the embodiments of the present invention;

[0048] Figure 4 It is a flowchart of the multimodal transport method in the prior art. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS

[0049] To make the objectives, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below in conjunction with the embodiments of the present invention. Obviously, the described embodiments are part of the embodiments of the present invention, rather than all of the embodiments. Based on the embodiments of the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art without creative efforts shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

[0050] Embodiment 1

[0051] To facilitate an accurate understanding of the inventive points of this application, the application scenarios, working principles, and working processes of the bus management platform are first introduced: The Hefei Municipal Government Affairs Administration has deployed a bus management platform developed by Company A that covers the entire administrative region of Hefei; Shanghai has also deployed a bus management platform developed by Company B that covers the entire city of Shanghai. The two bus management platforms are independent of each other and not interoperable, and each serves its own administrative region. The working process of the aforementioned bus management platform is as follows: The user submits a vehicle usage application operation in the APP installed on the mobile phone to implement functions such as applying for vehicle use, viewing the status of vehicle usage orders, finding a vehicle, returning a vehicle, reimbursing for vehicle breakdowns, and charging the vehicle. The approver uses the approver role on the APP to approve the user's vehicle usage application; after approval, the dispatcher uses the dispatcher role on the APP to dispatch and assign vehicles for the vehicle usage application to achieve vehicle dispatching. After receiving the vehicle dispatching information, the user picks up and uses the vehicle. During the user's vehicle usage process, the bus management platform obtains the real-time positioning information of the vehicle through the positioning terminal installed on the vehicle.

[0052] First, the definition of "domain" is explained: Taking the example of the entire-region travel network composed of Hefei, Anqing, Nanjing, and Changzhou, that is, the total area of the administrative regions of Hefei, Anqing, Nanjing, and Changzhou is used as the "domain", and data interconnection is achieved among the four cities, so as to achieve the purpose that the staff in Hefei, Anqing, Nanjing, and Changzhou can use the official vehicles in other areas within the domain when traveling on business to other areas within the domain.

[0053] Figure 1 It is a schematic flowchart of the order distribution method in the entire-region travel provided by the embodiment of the present invention. As Figure 1 shown, it is applied to the intermediate platform in the entire-region travel system.

[0054] Figure 2 It is a schematic architecture diagram of the entire-region travel system provided by the embodiment of the present invention. As Figure 2 shown, the system includes a car-hailing terminal 21, a vehicle dispatching terminal 31, and an intermediate platform 100, and the car-hailing terminal belongs to the first administrative region, such as Hefei; the vehicle dispatching terminal belongs to the second administrative region, such as Shanghai. Usually, the car-hailing terminal 21 is communicatively connected to the Hefei bus management platform server 20; the vehicle dispatching terminal 31 is communicatively connected to the Shanghai bus management platform server 30.

[0055] S101: Receive the vehicle usage application sent by the car-hailing terminal, and parse out several target sub-paths that need to dispatch vehicles from the vehicle usage application, where the target sub-path is a path segment on the business trip trajectory of the user corresponding to the vehicle usage application; further, all the trajectory points on a single target sub-path are within one administrative region.

[0056] In this step, when the user logs in to the APP of the Hefei Public Vehicle Management Platform, the APP displays two icons, namely "Official Business Travel" and "City-wide Travel", to the user. The function corresponding to the "Official Business Travel" icon is for travel within the administrative region of Hefei City; the function corresponding to the "City-wide Travel" icon is to serve the staff within the administrative region of Hefei City for travel outside the administrative region of Hefei City. Alternatively, the APP displays the "Travel" icon. After the user clicks on the "Travel" icon, the two icons of "Official Business Travel" and "City-wide Travel" are shown, and then the user can select the icon corresponding to the function for use. When the user clicks on the "City-wide Travel" icon, the method described in the embodiments of the present invention is triggered. In this application, the administrative region refers to the administrative region covered by an independent official vehicle management system, such as a prefecture-level city or a municipality directly under the Central Government.

[0057] Taking the example of a user in Hefei City traveling from the Hefei Environmental Protection Bureau to the Shanghai Housing Management Bureau. Figure 3 This is the first structural schematic diagram of the APP interface in the city-wide travel system provided by the embodiments of the present invention. As Figure 3 shown, the user manually decomposes each sub-path by himself / herself and submits the corresponding form entries for each sub-path. Since the user travels from Hefei to the Hangzhou Development and Reform Commission and the distance is relatively long, the user preferably chooses the train for long-distance travel. Since there is a direct train from Hefei to Shanghai, therefore, the user divides the business trip path from the Hefei Environmental Protection Bureau to the Shanghai Housing Management Bureau into three sub-paths: Hefei Environmental Protection Bureau - Hefei South Station, Hefei South Station - Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station, Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station - Shanghai Housing Management Bureau, and Hangzhou South Station - Hangzhou Development and Reform Commission. The user creates corresponding path entries for each sub-path in the APP interface. The path entry corresponding to the sub-path of Hefei Environmental Protection Bureau - Hefei South Station is 301, the path entry corresponding to the sub-path of Hefei South Station - Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station is 302, the path entry corresponding to the sub-path of Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station - Shanghai Housing Management Bureau is 303, and the path entry corresponding to the sub-path of Hangzhou South Station - Hangzhou Development and Reform Commission is 30N.

[0058] After the user submits, the APP automatically encapsulates the above three form entries into a vehicle use application and sends the vehicle use application to the Hefei Public Vehicle Management Platform Server 20. The Hefei Public Vehicle Management Platform Server 20 forwards the vehicle use application to the intermediate platform 100, and the intermediate platform 100 parses out the path entries of the above N sub-paths.

[0059] The intermediate platform 100 sorts the path entries in the order of travel to obtain an entry sequence:

[0060] Hefei Environmental Protection Bureau - Hefei South Station, Hefei South Station - Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station, Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station - Shanghai Housing Management Bureau,..., Hangzhou South Station - Hangzhou Development and Reform Commission.

[0061] First, determine whether the boarding point of the first path entry, i.e., from Hefei Environmental Protection Bureau to Hefei South Station, is a transportation hub in Hefei. If not, it indicates that there is a missing sub-path in the route independently planned by the user. The system automatically creates a sub-path from the boarding point to the transportation hub in Hefei and adds this sub-path to the set of target sub-paths. Then, take the next path entry as the current path entry and make judgments one by one. If this boarding point is a transportation hub in Hefei, it means the user already understands that they will board at Hefei South Station, and then judge the next path entry. Generally, the priority order for judging transportation hubs is high-speed railway stations, airports, ordinary railway stations, and long-distance bus stations.

[0062] Judge whether the starting point of the current path entry coincides with the ending point of the previous path entry; if not, it indicates that there is a missing sub-path in the route independently planned by the user, and add the path from Hefei South Station to the starting point of the current path entry to the set of target sub-paths; if so, take the next path entry of the current path entry as the current path entry, that is, judge the sub-path from Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station to Shanghai Housing Management Bureau until the last path entry; since the positions of path entry 30N and (path entry 2, path entry 30N - 1) are different, therefore, the judgment methods for path entry 301 and path entry 30N are slightly different from those for (path entry 2, path entry 30N - 1).

[0063] For example, after judging path entry 30N, judge whether the ending point of the car rental application coincides with the ending point of the last path entry. If so, execute the step of generating a sub-order according to the path characteristics of the target sub-path; if not, it indicates that there is a missing sub-path in the route independently planned by the user, and the system automatically generates a path from the ending point of the last path entry to the ending point of the car rental application for the Nth path entry and adds it to the set of target sub-paths.

[0064] It can be understood that when the user's travel path is relatively complex or requires transferring, the user independently plans the travel path. When traveling across administrative regions in the independently planned path, try to choose trains, airplanes, and long-distance buses.

[0065] Furthermore, when the user fills in the form entries in the APP interface, they do not have to fill them in the order of Hefei Environmental Protection Bureau - Hefei South Station, Hefei South Station - Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station, Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station - Shanghai Housing Management Bureau. The filling order can be:

[0066] Hefei Environmental Protection Bureau - Hefei South Station; ......

[0068] Hangzhou South Station - Hangzhou Development and Reform Commission;

[0069] Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station - Shanghai Housing Management Bureau;

[0070] Hefei South Railway Station-Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station.

[0071] The APP of the car-hailing terminal automatically sorts each form entry. For example, the point in the form entry closest to the user can be used as the starting point of the car application, and then the form entry where the starting point of the car application is located is placed at the top. Then, based on the fact that the end point of the sub-path contained in the previous form entry coincides with the starting point of the sub-path contained in the next form entry, the form entries are sorted in sequence to facilitate users to check whether their travel routes are reasonable and whether there are any omissions according to the travel order.

[0072] S102: Generate a sub-order according to the path characteristics of the target sub-path, and send the sub-order to the vehicle dispatching terminal corresponding to the target sub-path, the vehicle dispatching terminal is used to dispatch a vehicle for the user according to the sub-order, and return the vehicle dispatching information to the approximate vehicle terminal, wherein the path characteristics include: starting point, end point, and vehicle use time period.

[0073] For example, taking the target sub-path "Hefei Environmental Protection Bureau-Hefei South Station" as an example, the Hefei Environmental Protection Bureau is taken as the starting point of the corresponding sub-order, and the Hefei South Station is taken as the end point of the corresponding sub-order; the time when the user gets on the bus at the Hefei Environmental Protection Bureau is taken as the start time of the sub-order, and the time when the user gets off the bus is taken as the end time of the sub-order.

[0074] Similarly, in the target sub-path "Hangzhou South Station-Hangzhou Development and Reform Commission", Hangzhou South Station is used as the starting point of the corresponding sub-order, Hangzhou Development and Reform Commission is used as the end point of the corresponding sub-order, the train time when the user arrives at Hangzhou South Station plus the reasonable exit time is used as the start time of the corresponding sub-order, and the time of getting off the train set by the user is used as the end time of the sub-order. Furthermore, the system can estimate the time consumption of the target sub-path based on the start time of the sub-order, the road conditions in Hangzhou at that time, and the distance of the target sub-path, and then calculate the end time of the sub-order. So that the vehicle can be released to the idle vehicle pool after the end time, so that other users can make reservations to use the vehicle.

[0075] When generating the corresponding sub-order, the starting point of the target sub-path is used as the starting point of the sub-order, the end point of the target sub-path is used as the end point of the sub-order, the boarding time and the alighting time of the target sub-path are used as the start time and the end time of the sub-order respectively, and the additional vehicle requirements of the vehicle application are used as the additional vehicle requirements of the sub-order; thereby obtaining the fields used by the sub-order.

[0076] Convert the necessary fields of the sub-order into target structured data according to the data structure used by the official vehicle management platform in the administrative region where the target sub-path is located, and then encapsulate the target structured data into a sub-order, where the necessary fields of the sub-order include: starting point, ending point, start time, end time, and additional vehicle usage requirements.

[0077] Since the official vehicle management platforms in different administrative regions may use different data structures, when generating a sub-order, the intermediate platform should determine the corresponding target data structure according to the official vehicle management platform that receives the sub-order, and then encapsulate the fields according to the target data structure to obtain the corresponding sub-order. In the embodiment of the present invention, the intermediate platform 100 can be compatible with several data structures. Therefore, when constructing a global travel system, the official vehicle management platforms in each administrative region do not need to modify their own data structures, but only need to open the corresponding external data interfaces. The workload is relatively small, and it can be achieved with a relatively small workload to have a single network for cross-city official vehicle use and a single network for cross-province official vehicle use, and then realize the coordinated scheduling of official vehicle use within the region and improve the efficiency of official travel.

[0078] Then the intermediate platform 100 sends the sub-order corresponding to the path entry 301 to the Hefei official vehicle management platform, the sub-order corresponding to the path entry 303 to the Shanghai official vehicle management platform, and the sub-order corresponding to the path entry 30N to the Hangzhou official vehicle management platform.

[0079] Each official vehicle management platform then sends the received sub-orders to the corresponding dispatching terminals respectively, and the dispatching terminals dispatch vehicles for the sub-orders. The dispatching terminals return the vehicle dispatching information to the corresponding official vehicle management platforms, and each official vehicle management platform then sends the vehicle dispatching information to the intermediate platform 100, and the intermediate platform 100 sends the vehicle dispatching information to the car-hailing terminal, and the user can view the corresponding vehicle dispatching information on the car-hailing terminal.

[0080] Figure 4 It is a schematic flowchart of a multimodal transport method in the prior art, as Figure 4As shown in the figure, in the multimodal transport method in the prior art, the shipper entrusts the shipping task to the MTO (Multimodal Transportation Operator) or its representative. The MTO or its representative formulates transportation plans, requirements, and instructions for the shipper, and prepares transportation documents and files. The MTO or its representative entrusts the goods to the first-stage actual carrier. The first-stage actual carrier forms a service relationship with the MTO or its representative and is responsible to the MTO or its representative. After the first-stage actual carrier completes the first-stage transportation, it reports the arrival of the transportation to the MTO or its representative. Then, the MTO or its representative contacts the second-stage actual carrier to start transporting the goods. And so on. In the existing multimodal transport, the MTO or its representative is actually a role of intermediate dispatching and full-process monitoring. The actual carriers of each stage only receive dispatch orders and execute them, and do not form a service relationship with the shipper. The fee settlement method is that the shipper settles with the MTO, and the MTO then settles with the actual carriers of each stage respectively according to the business subcontracting situation.

[0081] In this application, the intermediate platform only functions to receive data, perform format conversion, and forward data. It does not dispatch each public vehicle management platform, nor does it monitor the transportation of vehicles on each public vehicle management platform throughout the process.

[0082] The most fundamental differences are three points:

[0083] Firstly, in terms of fee settlement, in this application, when the user uses a public vehicle in other administrative regions within the domain, the fee settlement is directly calculated between the public vehicle management platform corresponding to the car-hailing terminal and the public vehicle management platform corresponding to the public vehicle, rather than settling with the intermediate platform.

[0084] Secondly, after the intermediate platform completes the tasks of receiving data, performing format conversion, and forwarding data, its tasks are completed, and it no longer intervenes in any part of the entire travel process. For the whole-region travel

[0085] Thirdly, in the existing multimodal transport method, the process connection between the first stage and the second stage during the transportation process needs to be realized through the MTO or its representative. In this application, the first stage and the second stage are directly connected and do not need to be completed through the intermediate platform.

[0086] Embodiment 2

[0087] Based on Embodiment 1 of the present invention, Embodiment 2 of the present invention can use the following method to implement the process of parsing out several target sub-paths that require vehicle dispatching from the vehicle usage application:

[0088] For example, the business trip track of a user is from Hefei Environmental Protection Bureau to Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau and then to Changchun Environmental Protection Bureau. The vehicle use application submitted by the user only includes geographical nodes, such as the starting point, passing points, and ending point, where the passing points can be the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau selected by the user.

[0089] The intermediate platform 100 parses out the geographical nodes in the vehicle use application. Then it determines the administrative divisions where each geographical node is located. For example, the administrative division where the Hefei Environmental Protection Bureau is located is Hefei, the administrative division where the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau is located is Beijing, and the administrative division where the Changchun Environmental Protection Bureau is located is Changchun. Then it respectively establishes branch paths from the Hefei Environmental Protection Bureau to Hefei South Station, from the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau to Beijing Station, and from the Changchun Environmental Protection Bureau to Changchun Station; further, since the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau is a passing point, that is, the user's business trip has not ended yet, therefore, a branch path from the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau to Beijing Station should also be established. Use public transportation paths, such as the paths along the high - speed rail lines, to sequentially connect Hefei South Station, Beijing Station, and Changchun Station in series. Take the above - mentioned branch paths as the target sub - paths. In practical applications, the transportation hub nodes connected to the other ends of the branch paths can also be one or a combination of bus stations, docks, and airports. In practical applications, it is preferably matched with railway stations.

[0090] Applying the above - mentioned embodiments of the present invention, the user only provides the destination of official business trips, such as the ending point, or the intermediate destinations. The system can automatically plan the user's travel path. The information input by the user is less and the operation is simpler, improving the user experience.

[0091] Embodiment 3

[0092] Based on Embodiment 2 of the present invention, Embodiment 3 of the present invention can use the following method to implement the process of parsing out several target sub - paths that need to dispatch vehicles from the vehicle use application:

[0093] Plan the user's travel path according to the vehicle use information included in the vehicle use application: The user's travel path planned in Embodiment 2 is Hefei Environmental Protection Bureau - Hefei South Station - Beijing Station - Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau - Beijing Station - Changchun Station - Changchun Environmental Protection Bureau. Further, since there is no direct train from Hefei South Station to Beijing Station, Hefei South Station needs to first reach Beijing South Station, then arrive at Beijing Station from Beijing South Station, and then take the train from Beijing Station to Changchun Station. At this time, the user's travel path obtained in Embodiment 2 is:

[0094] Hefei Environmental Protection Bureau - Hefei South Station - Beijing South Station - Beijing Station - Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau - Beijing Station - Changchun Station - Changchun Environmental Protection Bureau.

[0095] Taking Hefei South Station, Beijing South Station, Beijing Station, and Changchun Station as cut - off points, the backbone path of Hefei South Station - Beijing Station - Changchun Station is cut into 3 preliminary sub - paths: Hefei South - Beijing South Station, Beijing South Station - Beijing Station, and Beijing Station - Changchun Station.

[0096] For each preliminary sub-path, determine whether the preliminary sub-path is entirely within the same administrative division. All the path points on the preliminary sub-path from Beijing South Station to Beijing Station are entirely within the administrative division of Beijing. Therefore, add this preliminary sub-path to the set of target sub-paths.

[0097] Applying the above embodiments of the present invention, through the splitting of the backbone path and supplemented by the judgment of the trajectory points of the preliminary sub-path, the official vehicle demand occurring during the transfer process can be determined, enabling users to use official vehicles during the transfer process, thereby improving the user experience.

[0098] Especially in the official group travel, classified official travel, official travel with large items or precision instruments, the improvement of the user experience is more obvious.

[0099] Further, taking a user from Hefei on a business trip to Changchun and not passing through the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau as an example, when generating the backbone path in the user's travel path, Hefei South Station - Changchun Station can be directly connected to obtain the long-distance path. Then, obtain the administrative divisions passed by the long-distance path and the transportation hubs in this administrative division. There are several cities passed from Hefei South Station to Changchun Station. Plan several long-distance paths for taking the train from Hefei South Station to Changchun Station with the high-speed rail line or railway as the first priority. Then, for each long-distance path, taking each transportation hub passed as a node and aiming at the least number of transfers, perform path planning processing on the updated long-distance path to obtain the backbone path. For example, the planning algorithm can also be implemented using the existing path planning algorithm, and the embodiments of the present invention will not elaborate on it here.

[0100] Embodiment 4

[0101] Embodiment 4 of the present invention also provides another order distribution method in the global travel, which is applied to the vehicle scheduling terminal in the global travel system. The method includes:

[0102] Obtain the target structured data sent by the intermediate platform as described in any one of Embodiments 1 - 3;

[0103] Parse the target structured data to obtain the user's vehicle use application, and obtain information from the corresponding second server and dispatch vehicles for the user, where the fields include: departure place, official destination, vehicle use time period, number of passengers, and vehicle type.

[0104] Embodiment 5

[0105] Embodiment 5 of the present invention provides an order distribution system in the global travel. The system includes:

[0106] A car-hailing terminal, where the car-hailing terminal belongs to the first administrative division;

[0107] The intermediate platform according to any one of Embodiments 1-3;

[0108] And a vehicle dispatching terminal according to Embodiment 4, wherein the vehicle dispatching terminal belongs to the second administrative region.

[0109] The above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solutions of the present invention, rather than to limit it; although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, those of ordinary skill in the art should understand that: they can still modify the technical solutions recorded in the foregoing embodiments, or perform equivalent replacements on some of the technical features; and these modifications or replacements do not make the essence of the corresponding technical solutions deviate from the spirit and scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention.

Claims

1. Method for order distribution in global travel, characterized in that, An intermediate platform applied to a global travel system, the system including a car-hailing terminal, vehicle dispatching terminals in the first and second administrative regions, and an intermediate platform, and the car-hailing terminal belonging to the first administrative region; The intermediate platform receives a car-hailing application sent by the car-hailing terminal, and parses out a number of target sub-paths for which vehicles need to be dispatched from the car-hailing application. Among them, the target sub-path is a path segment on the business trip trajectory of the user corresponding to the car-hailing application; all trajectory points on a single target sub-path are within one administrative region; The intermediate platform generates a sub-order according to the path characteristics of the target sub-path, and sends the sub-order to the vehicle dispatching terminal connected to the bus management platform in the administrative region corresponding to the target sub-path. The vehicle dispatching terminal is used to dispatch a vehicle for the user according to the sub-order and return the vehicle dispatching information to the car-hailing terminal. Among them, the path characteristics include: starting point, ending point, and car-hailing time period. When settling the fees, the bus management platform corresponding to the car-hailing terminal directly calculates with the bus management platform corresponding to the vehicle dispatched from other regions.

2. The order distribution method in global travel according to claim 1, wherein The parsing out a number of target sub-paths for which vehicles need to be dispatched from the car-hailing application includes: Parsing the car-hailing application, where the car-hailing application includes a number of path entries with corresponding paths connected end to end; Sorting the path entries according to the travel order to obtain an entry sequence, and judging whether the boarding point of the user for the first path entry is a transportation hub in the first administrative region. If not, adding the path from the boarding point to the transportation hub to the set of target sub-paths, and taking the next path entry as the current path entry; if so, taking the next path entry as the current path entry; Judging whether the starting point of the current path entry coincides with the ending point of the previous path entry; if not, adding the path from the ending point of the previous path entry to the starting point of the current path entry to the set of target sub-paths; if so, taking the next path entry of the current path entry as the current path entry, and returning to execute the step of judging whether the starting point of the current path entry coincides with the ending point of the previous path entry until the last path entry; Judging whether the ending point of the car-hailing application coincides with the ending point of the last path entry. If so, executing the step of generating a sub-order according to the path characteristics of the target sub-path; if not, adding the path from the ending point of the last path entry to the ending point of the car-hailing application to the set of target sub-paths.

3. The order distribution method in the global travel according to claim 1, wherein The parsing out a number of target sub-paths for which vehicles need to be dispatched from the car-hailing application includes: Parsing out the geographical nodes in the car-hailing application, where the geographical nodes include: starting point, passing points, and ending point, and the geographical nodes are positioning points pre-entered by the user; Determining the administrative regions where each geographical node is located respectively, and establishing branch paths from each geographical node to the transportation hub nodes in the corresponding administrative region, where the transportation hub nodes include one or a combination of railway stations, bus stations, docks, and airports; Taking the branch paths as target sub-paths.

4. The order distribution method in global travel according to claim 3, wherein, While establishing the branch paths from each geographical node to the transportation hub nodes in the corresponding administrative region, the method further includes: Connect the transportation hub nodes in the administrative regions where each geographical node is located using public transportation routes.

5. The order distribution method in global travel according to claim 1, wherein Parse several target sub-routes that require vehicle dispatching from the vehicle usage application, including: Plan the user's travel route based on the vehicle usage information included in the vehicle usage application; Using the transportation hub nodes in each administrative region passed by the user's travel route as cut-off points, divide the backbone route into several preliminary sub-routes; For each preliminary sub-route, determine whether the preliminary sub-route is entirely within the same administrative region. If so, add the preliminary sub-route to the set of target sub-routes.

6. The order distribution method in the global travel according to claim 5, characterized in that, The planning of the user's travel route based on the vehicle usage information included in the vehicle usage application includes: Parse the starting point and the ending point in the vehicle usage application; determine the administrative regions where the starting point and the ending point are located respectively, and establish branch routes from the starting point and the ending point to the transportation hub nodes in the corresponding administrative regions. Among them, the transportation hub nodes include one or a combination of railway stations, bus stations, docks, and airports; Connect the starting point and the ending point using the backbone route; Using the transportation hub nodes as connection points, connect the backbone route and the branch routes into the user's travel route.

7. The order distribution method in global travel according to claim 6, wherein The connecting the starting point and the ending point using the backbone route includes: Connect the starting point and the ending point using the long-distance route, obtain the administrative regions passed by the long-distance route, and obtain the transportation hubs in this administrative region; Taking each transportation hub as a node, and aiming at the least number of transfers, perform route planning processing on the updated long-distance route to obtain the backbone route.

8. The order distribution method in global travel according to claim 1, characterized in that, Generating a sub-order according to the route characteristics of the target sub-route includes: Taking the starting point of the target sub-route as the starting point of the sub-order, taking the ending point of the target sub-route as the ending point of the sub-order, taking the boarding time and the alighting time of the target sub-route as the start time and the end time of the sub-order respectively, and taking the additional vehicle usage requirements of the vehicle usage application as the additional vehicle usage requirements of the sub-order; According to the data structure used by the public vehicle management platform in the administrative region where the target sub-route is located, convert the necessary fields of the sub-order into target structured data, and then encapsulate the target structured data into a sub-order. Among them, the necessary fields of the sub-order include: starting point, ending point, start time, end time, and additional vehicle usage requirements.

9. Order distribution method in global travel, characterized in that, Applied to a vehicle dispatching terminal in a global travel system, the method includes: Obtain the target structured data sent by the intermediate platform according to any one of claims 1-8; Parse the target structured data to obtain the user's vehicle usage application, and obtain information from the corresponding second server and dispatch vehicles for the user. Among them, the fields include: departure place, official destination, vehicle usage period, number of passengers, and vehicle type.

10. The order distribution system in global travel is characterized in that, The system includes: A car-hailing terminal, where the car-hailing terminal belongs to the first administrative region; The intermediate platform according to any one of claims 1-8; And the vehicle dispatching terminal according to claim 9.

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