Transport management system

Abstract

To reduce the time and effort for a reservation for using a temporary elevator.SOLUTION: A transport management system CS1 of the present disclosure is a transport management system CS1 that accesses a management system managing process progress or mechanical equipment and materials, detects transfer operations from the details of registration in the management system, and makes a reservation for using a temporary elevator. The transport management system CS1 comprises: an advance information acquisition unit CS13 that accesses the management system and acquires advance information including transport details and the transport date of the detected transport operations on the basis of detection information for detecting the transport operations; a time calculation unit CS14 that, when the advance information acquisition unit CS13 acquires the advance information, calculates the occupation time of the temporary elevator from the transfer details; and a reservation registration unit CS15 that, when the advance information acquisition unit CS13 acquires the advance information, makes a reservation for using the temporary elevator in the occupation time on the transfer date.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

Description

[Technical Field]

[0001] The present disclosure relates to a transportation management system. [Background technology]

[0002] Regarding reservations for lifting equipment such as elevators that are shared by multiple users, there is a known equipment reservation system that adjusts reservations when multiple users make overlapping reservations and confirms the reservations (Patent Documents 1 and 2).

[0003] In this facility reservation system, when a user uses a user terminal to access a facility reservation device via a network and make a facility reservation, the facility reservation device confirms the reservation in accordance with a preset priority order. [Prior art documents] [Patent documents]

[0004] [Patent Document 1] Japanese Patent Publication No. 2022-122191 [Patent Document 2] Japanese Patent Application Publication No. 2022-124934 Summary of the Invention [Problem to be solved by the invention]

[0005] However, for example, when replacing temporary materials, temporary elevators are sometimes used without being reserved, and there are cases where the temporary elevator is already in use when an attempt is made to transport temporary materials.

[0006] In this case, there is wasted time as temporary materials cannot be transported until the temporary elevator becomes available.

[0007] On the other hand, if a reservation is made in advance when using a temporary elevator, the above-mentioned wasted time can be reduced, but if the user is required to enter a reservation in order to do so, there is the problem that entering the reservation in this way is time-consuming.

[0008] The present disclosure has been made in consideration of these circumstances, and aims to reduce the effort required to reserve the use of a temporary elevator. [Means for solving the problem]

[0009] The transportation management system disclosed herein is a transportation management system that accesses a management system that manages process progress or equipment and materials, detects transportation work from the registered contents of the management system, and makes reservations for the use of a temporary elevator.The transportation management system includes: a preliminary information acquisition unit that accesses the management system and acquires preliminary information including the transportation content and transportation date and time of the detected transportation work based on the detection information that detects the transportation work; a time calculation unit that, when the preliminary information acquisition unit acquires the preliminary information, calculates the occupancy time of the temporary elevator from the transportation content; and a reservation registration unit that, when the preliminary information acquisition unit acquires the preliminary information, makes a reservation for the use of the temporary elevator on the transportation date and time for the occupancy time. [Effects of the Invention]

[0010] According to the present disclosure, the effort required to reserve the use of a temporary elevator can be reduced. [Brief explanation of the drawings]

[0011] [Figure 1] 1 is a diagram for explaining an overview of the operating environment of a transportation management system according to a first embodiment of the present disclosure. [Figure 2] 1 is a diagram conceptually illustrating the contents of a construction plan managed by a process progress management system according to a first embodiment of the present disclosure. [Figure 3] 1 is a diagram for explaining the functional configuration of a transportation management system according to a first embodiment of the present disclosure. [Figure 4]FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining the contents stored in an information storage unit according to the first embodiment of the present disclosure. [Figure 5] FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining an overview of the operating environment of a transportation management system according to a second embodiment of the present disclosure. [Figure 6] FIG. 10 is a diagram conceptually showing the contents of materials and equipment managed by a materials and equipment management system according to a second embodiment of the present disclosure. [Figure 7] FIG. 10 is a diagram conceptually showing the contents of materials and equipment managed by a materials and equipment management system according to a third embodiment of the present disclosure. [Figure 8] FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining the contents stored in an information storage unit according to the third embodiment of the present disclosure. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0012] Hereinafter, modes for carrying out the invention (hereinafter referred to as "embodiments") will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that the same elements are denoted by the same numbers or symbols throughout the description of the embodiments.

[0013] <<First Embodiment>> A transportation management system CS1 according to a first embodiment of the present disclosure will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4. FIG.

[0014] FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining an overview of the operating environment of a transportation management system CS1 according to a first embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG. 1, the transportation management system CS1 is one of various systems (e.g., a process progress management system CS2, etc.) constructed on a cloud server 2 that can be accessed by a user terminal 1 via a network N.

[0015] In this embodiment, the transportation management system CS1 and the process progress management system CS2 are built on a cloud server 2, which is a virtual machine that uses virtual computing technology, but this is not necessarily limited to this.

[0016] Systems such as the transportation management system CS1 and the process progress management system CS2 may be constructed on a physical server connected to the network N.

[0017] Furthermore, the transportation management system CS1 and the process progress management system CS2 may be constructed on different servers, and the transportation management system CS1 may be able to access the process progress management system CS2 via a network N or the like.

[0018] As will be explained later, the construction progress management system CS2 is a management system that manages the progress of construction work, and information related to construction plans (described later) is registered therein, and revisions to the construction plans are reflected in accordance with the progress of the construction work.

[0019] As will be explained later, the transportation management system CS1 accesses the process progress management system CS2 at a predetermined timing, detects transportation work from the registered contents of the process progress management system CS2, and reserves the use of the temporary elevator.

[0020] [User device 1] The user terminal 1 may be, for example, a smartphone, tablet, PC (personal computer), or notebook PC, and is a terminal used by each construction company involved in the construction to access the system built on the cloud server 2.

[0021] Note that the user terminal 1 does not need to be able to access all systems built within the cloud server 2; it only needs to be able to access the systems related to the construction work it is responsible for (for example, in this embodiment, the transportation management system CS1 and the process progress management system CS2).

[0022] For example, the user terminal 1 is used to periodically (for example, at the end of each day's work) register the progress of construction work contracted by the company in the process progress management system CS2.

[0023] Then, the process progress management system CS2 corrects the construction plan in accordance with the registered progress. For example, if construction is completed ahead of schedule, the process progress management system CS2 modifies the construction plan to bring forward the subsequent construction schedule, and conversely, if construction is delayed, modifies the construction plan to postpone the subsequent construction schedule.

[0024] However, not all such revisions to the construction plan are made automatically; instead, construction personnel may operate the user terminal 1 to access the process progress management system CS2 and directly revise the construction plan in accordance with the progress of the construction.

[0025] The user terminal 1 is also used to add new construction details that need to be added to the construction plan of the construction progress management system CS2.

[0026] It should be noted that not all registration of construction progress in the construction progress management system CS2 is performed using the user terminal 1. For example, at some construction sites, construction progress information is acquired using 3D-LiDAR, and the progress information is automatically registered in the process progress management system CS2 based on the data from the 3D-LiDAR.

[0027] [Process Progress Management System CS2] FIG. 2 is a diagram conceptually showing the contents of a construction plan managed by the process progress management system CS2 of the first embodiment according to the present disclosure.

[0028] Note that Figure 2 merely shows the portion of the content registered in the process progress management system CS2 that corresponds to the following explanation, and in reality, more detailed information related to the construction work is registered.

[0029] As shown in FIG. 2, the construction progress management system CS2 stores information about the date and time of construction work and the contractor who will carry out the work, as contents of the construction work plan (information about the construction work plan).

[0030] Specifically, as shown in the speech bubble, the process progress management system CS2 registers, for each registered construction content, the "construction contractor performing the construction (in Figure 2, A Construction), construction content..., construction date and time (in Figure 2, April 1st, 8:00-10:30), work floor (in Figure 2, 10th floor), and materials and equipment to be delivered (in Figure 2, delivered materials: 10 pieces of XX material, 20 pieces of YY material, delivered equipment: 2 ZZ machines), etc."

[0031] Such registered contents are not limited to this embodiment, but are contents that are generally managed by systems etc. when managing the progress of construction work, and the transportation management system CS1, which will be explained later, only needs to be able to access such general systems and perform the necessary processing.

[0032] As explained above, when the progress of the construction work is registered, the construction progress management system CS2 modifies the construction plan based on the progress. For example, let's say that the work contracted by Construction A on April 1st did not finish as scheduled, and as a result, Construction B's work on April 1st could not be carried out, and this construction progress was registered in the process progress management system CS2 around the scheduled time on April 1st.

[0033] As a result, the process progress management system CS2 modifies the construction plan so that the construction work for Construction B, which was scheduled for April 1st, will be carried out on or after April 2nd. As explained above, such a correction of the construction plan may be made by a person involved in the construction using the user terminal 1 and accessing the process progress management system CS2.

[0034] [Transportation Management System CS1] FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating the functional configuration of the transportation management system CS1 of the first embodiment according to the present disclosure.

[0035] As explained above, in this embodiment, the transportation management system CS1 is built on the cloud server 2. For this reason, the functional configuration shown in Figure 3 is that of a virtual machine that uses virtual computing technology to achieve the same functions as a physical computer using software.

[0036] However, as mentioned earlier, the transportation management system CS1 may also be constructed on a physical computer, in which case the functional configuration shown in Figure 3 is a functional configuration realized by a program that causes the physical computer to function as the transportation management system CS1.

[0037] As shown in FIG. 3, the transportation management system CS1 includes a communication unit CS11, an information storage unit CS12, a prior information acquisition unit CS13, a time calculation unit CS14, and a reservation registration unit CS15.

[0038] (Communication Department CS11) The communication unit CS11 is a functional component that functions as a communication interface for communicating with the process progress management system CS2 and the user terminal 1 via the network N.

[0039] (Information storage unit CS12) The information storage unit CS12 is, for example, a data storage area installed by a business that provides cloud computing services.

[0040] It should be noted that the data storage area does not have to be limited to one installed by a business operator or the like, and may be a storage device such as a data server connected to the network N so that the transportation management system CS1 can access it.

[0041] The information storage unit CS12 stores detection information for detecting transportation work that uses a temporary elevator from the construction details (information about the construction plan) registered in the process progress management system CS2.

[0042] The information storage unit CS12 also stores time information used to calculate the temporary elevator occupancy time from the transport details.

[0043] FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining the contents stored in the information storage unit CS12 according to the first embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0044] As shown in FIG. 4, the information storage unit CS12 stores names of materials and equipment (hereinafter also referred to as names of materials and equipment) as detection information for detecting transportation work using a temporary elevator. In other words, the names of materials and equipment that are expected to need to be transported using the temporary elevator are stored.

[0045] Therefore, if the name of this equipment or material is included in the construction details (information about the construction plan) registered in the process progress management system CS2 described above, it can be detected that transportation work will be carried out using a temporary elevator.

[0046] In addition, the information storage unit CS12 stores the temporary elevator movement time, reserve time, the number of items that can be carried in corresponding to the name of the equipment and materials, and the carrying-in and carrying-out time (minutes) as time information used to calculate the temporary elevator occupancy time. Therefore, as will be described later, the temporary elevator occupancy time can be calculated based on the time information used to calculate the occupancy time.

[0047] "Temporary elevator travel time" The temporary elevator travel time is the time required for the temporary elevator to move one floor, and is set appropriately according to the temporary elevator's travel speed. In the case of the temporary elevator of this embodiment, it takes 0.2 minutes to go up one floor, so it takes 1.8 minutes to go from the first floor to the tenth floor, which is nine floors above.

[0048] In this embodiment, the time required to go one floor is stored, but the method of storage is not limited to this. The temporary elevator travel time can be, for example, 0.2 minutes to go one floor, 0.4 minutes to go two floors, etc., and the time required for each movement can be stored from the beginning, eliminating the need to calculate the number of floors to go to and the time required to go one floor, as mentioned above.

[0049] "Reserve time" The spare time is a spare time allowed in case the transportation work takes time, and in this embodiment, a spare time of 3 minutes is allowed for each loading / unloading work into the temporary elevator. This reserve time does not have to be limited to three minutes, but can be set to an appropriate time for each site.

[0050] Specifically, for example, even if a single loading / unloading operation, in which materials and equipment are loaded into a temporary elevator on the first floor and then removed from the destination floor, is expected to take five minutes if all goes smoothly, it could take up to three minutes, or even longer, if the operation takes longer. For this reason, we estimate the time per loading / unloading operation to be 8 minutes, which is the 3 minutes of spare time plus the expected 5 minutes of loading / unloading time.

[0051] In this embodiment, the spare time is estimated for each carry-in / out operation to / from the temporary elevator, but this is not necessarily limited to this. For example, a method may be used in which a reserve time of about 10% is added to the total occupancy time of the temporary elevator calculated without adding the reserve time.

[0052] In other words, if the total occupancy time of the temporary elevator calculated without adding the reserve time is 60 minutes, it is possible to allow for 10% reserve time and set the occupancy time of the temporary elevator including the reserve time to 66 minutes.

[0053] "Number of items that can be carried in" The maximum number of items that can be carried in is the number of items that can be loaded into the temporary elevator at one time. For example, in this embodiment, the number of XX materials that can be carried in is 5, so if there are 10 XX materials, the temporary elevator will be used twice.

[0054] Loading and unloading time The carry-in / carry-out time is, for example, the time required to carry the maximum number of materials and equipment into a temporary elevator on the first floor and then carry them out to the destination floor. In this embodiment, the carry-in / carry-out time does not include the travel time of the temporary elevator, so the carry-in / carry-out time is the same regardless of the carry-in / carry-out floor.

[0055] (Advance Information Acquisition Department CS13) The advance information acquisition unit CS13 accesses the process progress management system CS2 via the communication unit CS11 and acquires advance information including the transportation content and transportation date and time of the detected transportation work based on detection information that detects transportation work using a temporary elevator. For example, the delivery details include the items to be delivered (more specifically, the names of the items), the quantity of the items to be delivered, and the delivery floor to which the items are to be delivered.

[0056] Specifically, as explained above with reference to Figure 4, the information storage unit CS12 stores the materials (e.g., XX material, YY material, etc.) and equipment (e.g., ZZ machine, etc.) that are the items to be transported as detection information for detecting transportation work using a temporary elevator.

[0057] In addition, in the contents of the construction plan (information related to the construction plan) of the process progress management system CS2 shown in Figure 2, for the construction work by A Construction on April 1st, XX material and YY material are registered as materials to be delivered, and ZZ machine is registered as equipment to be delivered.

[0058] For this reason, the advance information acquisition unit CS13 accesses the process progress management system CS2 via the communication unit CS11, and if XX material, YY material, ZZ machine, etc., which are detection information for detecting transportation work using a temporary elevator stored in the information storage unit CS12, are registered in the contents of the construction plan (information related to the construction plan), it detects that transportation work is required for the construction work.

[0059] Then, the advance information acquisition unit CS13 subsequently acquires advance information including the transportation content and transportation date and time of the detected transportation work.

[0060] Specifically, since the detected information for detecting transportation work using a temporary elevator indicates that XX material, YY material, and ZZ machine are the items to be transported, the advance information acquisition unit CS13 acquires the names of the items to be transported (material and equipment names: XX material, YY material, and ZZ machine) registered in the contents of the construction plan in which the transportation work was detected (information related to the construction plan), the quantities corresponding to the items, and the work floor corresponding to the transportation floor as the transportation content.

[0061] That is, in the case of the construction work by A Construction on April 1st as shown in Figure 2, where transportation work was detected, the advance information acquisition unit CS13 acquires the transportation contents as 10 pieces of XX material (10 pieces of XX material), 20 pieces of YY material (20 pieces of YY material), 2 ZZ machines (2 pieces of ZZ machines), and the 10th work floor (the 10th transport floor, which is the destination).

[0062] Furthermore, the advance information acquisition unit CS13 acquires, as transportation date and time, the date and time of the work registered in the contents of the construction plan (information about the construction plan) on which the transportation work was detected.

[0063] That is, in the case of construction work by A Construction on April 1st shown in FIG. 2 in which transportation work was detected, the advance information acquisition unit CS13 acquires 8:00 to 10:30 on April 1st as the transportation date and time.

[0064] In addition to the transportation content and transportation date and time described above, the advance information acquisition unit CS13 may also acquire the name of the construction company (in the above example, A Construction) registered in the content of the construction plan in which the transportation work was detected (information about the construction plan).

[0065] In this way, the name of the construction company may be acquired, and when the reservation registration unit CS15 described below makes a reservation for a temporary elevator, the reservation registration unit CS15 may make the reservation in a manner that clearly indicates who is planning to use the elevator.

[0066] (Time calculation part CS14) As explained above, when the advance information acquisition unit CS13 acquires advance information including the transportation details and transportation date and time of the transportation work, the time calculation unit CS14 calculates the temporary elevator occupation time from the transportation details.

[0067] First, the time calculation unit CS14 refers to the information storage unit CS12 and calculates how many times the temporary elevator needs to be used to transport the XX material.

[0068] For example, in this embodiment, the number of XX materials that can be brought in is 5, and the quantity of XX materials in the construction work by A Construction on April 1st as shown in Figure 2, where transportation work was detected, is 10, so it is necessary to use the temporary elevator twice (quantity of XX materials / number of XX materials that can be brought in) to transport the XX materials.

[0069] If there is a remainder when dividing the quantity of XX material by the number of XX material that can be delivered, the number of times the temporary elevator is used can be calculated by adding 1 to the quotient of that division.

[0070] In other words, if the quantity of XX material is 12, the quotient of the division is 2, and the remainder is 2, but this remainder is set to 1, and 1 is added to the quotient of 2 to determine the number of times the temporary elevator will be used: 3.

[0071] However, the method of determining the number of times the temporary elevator is used does not have to be limited to this method. For example, the information storage unit CS12 may further store the number of items that can be transported when multiple types of equipment and materials are combined, and calculations may be made to more efficiently complete the transportation with fewer uses of the temporary elevator, taking into account cases where surplus equipment and materials are loaded together in a temporary elevator.

[0072] As described above, once the number of times the temporary elevator is used necessary to transport the XX material is calculated, the time calculation unit CS14 calculates the total time necessary to transport the XX material.

[0073] First, the time calculation unit CS14 calculates the total time required for carrying in and out the XX material. Specifically, since the number of times loading and unloading is the same as the number of times the temporary elevator is used, the time calculation unit CS14 calculates the loading and unloading time for XX material to be 10 minutes (number of times the temporary elevator is used x time per loading and unloading) assuming that two 5-minute loading and unloading operations are required for each loading and unloading.

[0074] In addition, the time calculation unit CS14 adds the 6 minutes of spare time for two loads (number of times the temporary elevator is used x spare time per load / unload) to the 10 minutes of load / unload time for XX material, calculating a total load / unload time for XX material of 16 minutes.

[0075] Next, the time calculation unit CS14 calculates the total travel time of the temporary elevator required to transport the XX material. Specifically, in the case of the construction work by A Construction on April 1st, as shown in Figure 2, where transportation work was detected, the temporary elevator loaded XX materials on the first floor and transported them to the 10th floor, then returned to the first floor again to load the next load, repeating this process.

[0076] Therefore, for each transport, the elevator will travel a distance of 20 floors (to be precise, 18 floors), which is roughly twice the number of floors of the destination floor (also called the transport floor), which is 10 floors (to be precise, 9 floors as shown above), so the time calculation unit CS14 calculates the total travel time of the temporary elevator to be 7.2 minutes ((transport floor - 1) x times x travel time per floor by the temporary elevator x number of times the temporary elevator is used). In the following, the total travel time of the temporary elevator, which was 7.2 minutes, will be described as approximately 8 minutes. Similarly, if there are decimal points, round up and write as approximately minutes.

[0077] Then, the time calculation unit CS14 adds the total time required to carry in and out the XX material, 16 minutes, to the total travel time of the temporary elevator, approximately 8 minutes, and calculates a total time required to transport the XX material, approximately 24 minutes.

[0078] Similarly, the time calculation unit CS14 calculates the total time required to transport the YY material and the total time required to transport the ZZ machine. In the case of the construction work by A Construction on April 1st, as shown in Figure 2, where transportation work was detected, if we perform the same calculation as for XX material, the total time required to transport YY material is approximately 17 minutes, and the total time required to transport ZZ machine is approximately 14 minutes.

[0079] Finally, the time calculation unit CS14 adds up the total time required to transport the XX material, the YY material, and the ZZ material, and calculates the temporary elevator occupancy time of approximately 55 minutes.

[0080] In the above, we have explained that the temporary elevator occupancy time is calculated after calculating the total time required to transport XX material, the total time required to transport YY material, and the total time required to transport ZZ material in that order, but it goes without saying that the temporary elevator occupancy time can also be calculated in other orders. Therefore, the order in which the temporary elevator occupancy times are calculated does not need to be limited to the above order.

[0081] Furthermore, the above describes the most common example of transporting equipment and materials, namely, transporting equipment from the first floor (the floor where equipment and materials are brought in) to upper floors. However, in the case of rearrangement, for example, materials that make up scaffolding, construction machinery, and other equipment may be moved from upper floors (the floor where equipment and materials are brought in) to lower floors (the floor where equipment and materials are unloaded) for use, i.e., moved to the floor where they will be used.

[0082] In this case, loading into the temporary elevator does not necessarily take place on the first floor, and unloading does not necessarily take place on a floor higher than the loading floor.

[0083] Furthermore, there may be cases where materials and equipment must be transported in a temporary elevator from the upper floors (where materials and equipment are brought in) to the first floor (where materials and equipment are taken out) in order to be returned to the rental company or to be used in construction work at another site.

[0084] However, even in the above cases, the contents of the construction plan (information about the construction plan) generally include the work floors from which floors what will be transported to which floors, so by obtaining the details of the transport floors (from which floors to which floors the goods will be transported), it is possible to determine the number of floors the temporary elevator will travel to, and the occupancy time of the temporary elevator can be calculated in the same way as explained above.

[0085] Specifically, the number of floors traveled cannot be negative, so if transporting from floor A to floor B, subtract AB or BA, and take the absolute value so that the result is not negative, and you can find how many floors the temporary elevator will travel.

[0086] Incidentally, depending on the materials and equipment used in construction work, some waste materials are generally generated. In such cases, it is expected that a temporary elevator will be used to transport and dispose of the waste generated at the end of the construction work.

[0087] Therefore, as previously described with reference to Figure 4, information on the equipment and materials that generate waste may be added as an item corresponding to the detection information (name of equipment and materials) that detects transportation work using the temporary elevator, and the time calculation unit CS14 may further calculate the occupancy time of the temporary elevator that is occupied to transport the waste.

[0088] Specifically, an item indicating whether or not waste has been generated (also called waste generation determination information) should be added to the table shown in Figure 4 as an item corresponding to the detection information (name of equipment and materials), and the time information required to calculate the occupancy time of the temporary elevator to be occupied for transporting waste should also be added.

[0089] For example, in addition to the items of the number of items that can be brought in and the time (minutes) for bringing in and taking out the waste may be added to the items of whether or not waste is generated (waste generation determination information), the number of items that can be brought in, and the time (minutes) for bringing in and taking out the waste corresponding to the number of items that can be brought in, and if the time calculation unit CS14 determines that waste will be generated based on the waste generation determination information, the time calculation unit CS14 may calculate the occupancy time required to transport the waste in the temporary elevator, as explained above.

[0090] Specifically, for example, if the XX material shown in Figure 4 is a material that generates waste, the waste generation item should be set to "Yes," and if the waste generated by 20 pieces of XX material can be loaded into the temporary elevator at once, the number of pieces of waste that can be brought in for the added XX material should be set to 20, and the time required to bring in and take out the waste from the temporary elevator should be registered in the waste bring-in / out time (minutes) item corresponding to the number of pieces of XX material that can be brought in for 20.

[0091] The reason why the number of XX material that can be brought in above is 5 and the number of XX material waste that can be brought in is 20 is that the amount of waste generated from one piece of equipment or material is often small in volume, so the amount of waste generated from 20 pieces of XX material can be loaded into the temporary elevator at once.

[0092] However, although this is considered a rare case, the opposite may also be true. In this case, the number of waste materials that can be brought in will be smaller, for example, the number of XX materials that can be brought in will be 5, while the number of XX waste materials that can be brought in will be 2.

[0093] Then, if the name of the equipment or material to be transported is an equipment or material for which the item "whether waste is generated" is marked "Yes," the time calculation unit CS14 not only calculates the time required to occupy the temporary elevator to transport the equipment or material, but also calculates the time required to occupy the temporary elevator for disposing of waste generated during construction work using the equipment or material, using the same calculation procedure as explained above. Needless to say, in the case of materials and equipment that do not generate waste, the item for whether or not waste is generated is set to "no," and the occupancy time of the temporary elevator due to the disposal of waste is not calculated.

[0094] In other words, if we consider the number of XX materials that can be brought in and the time (minutes) required to bring in and take out the waste to be the number of materials that can be brought in and the time (minutes) required to bring in and take out the waste to be the same as in the calculations explained above, and calculate the occupancy time of the temporary elevator in the same way as before, this occupancy time will be the occupancy time of the temporary elevator associated with the disposal of waste (transportation of waste).

[0095] In this way, if the time calculation unit CS14 also calculates the occupancy time of the temporary elevator in conjunction with the disposal of waste, the reservation registration unit CS15, which will be described later, can also make a reservation for using the temporary elevator in conjunction with the disposal of waste.

[0096] In the case of equipment, the operating time of the equipment that generates the amount of waste that can be transported at one time by the temporary elevator can be registered instead of the amount of waste that can be transported at one time as explained above, and the time required to transport that waste into and out of the temporary elevator can be registered as the waste transport time (minutes).

[0097] By doing this, the advance information acquisition unit CS13 can determine how many times the temporary elevator needs to be operated to transport the waste by taking the work time on the transportation date and time acquired as the total operating time of the equipment and dividing the total operating time by the operating time of the equipment that generates the amount of waste that can be transported at one time by the temporary elevator.

[0098] In other respects, the time calculation unit CS14 can calculate the temporary elevator occupation time associated with the disposal of waste, following the same flow as previously explained. However, if the same construction work involves calculating both the time occupied by the temporary elevator for the disposal of material-based waste and the time occupied by the temporary elevator for the disposal of equipment-based waste, there is a high possibility that the time occupied by the temporary elevator for the disposal of waste will be double-counted.

[0099] Therefore, for example, when calculating the occupancy time of a temporary elevator associated with the disposal of waste, the time calculation unit CS14 may set a rule such as giving priority to the occupancy time of a temporary elevator associated with the disposal of waste based on materials, or giving priority to the occupancy time of a temporary elevator associated with the disposal of waste based on equipment, when calculating the occupancy time of a temporary elevator associated with the disposal of waste.

[0100] In other words, if the calculation of the temporary elevator occupation time associated with the disposal of waste can be performed based on both materials and equipment, the time calculation unit CS14 may be configured to calculate the temporary elevator occupation time associated with the disposal of waste based on either the materials or equipment set as priority.

[0101] Furthermore, if the temporary elevator occupancy time associated with the disposal of waste can only be calculated based on either the materials or the equipment, the time calculation unit CS14 will naturally make the calculation based on whichever is available.

[0102] (Reservation Registration Department CS15) When the advance information acquisition unit CS13 acquires advance information including the transportation content and transportation date and time of the transportation work, the reservation registration unit CS15 makes a reservation to use the temporary elevator for the occupancy time on the transportation date and time.

[0103] More precisely, when the time calculation unit CS14 calculates the occupancy time of the temporary elevator, the reservation registration unit CS15 makes a reservation to use the temporary elevator for the occupancy time on the transportation date and time acquired by the advance information acquisition unit CS13 (in the above example, from 8:00 to 10:30 on April 1st).

[0104] Specifically, since materials and equipment will be delivered at the start of construction, the reservation registration unit CS15 makes a reservation to use the temporary elevator from 8:00 to 8:55 on April 1st in order to occupy the temporary elevator for approximately 55 minutes, which is the occupancy time of the temporary elevator previously calculated by the time calculation unit CS14.

[0105] On the other hand, as explained above, if the time calculation unit CS14 also calculates the occupancy time of the temporary elevator in connection with the disposal of waste, the reservation registration unit CS15 may also make a reservation for the use of the temporary elevator in connection with the disposal of waste.

[0106] For example, if the temporary elevator will be occupied for 30 minutes to dispose of waste, since waste disposal work is often carried out at the end of construction, the reservation registration unit CS15 can make a reservation to use the temporary elevator from 30 minutes before the end of construction until the end of construction, that is, in the example of this embodiment, from 10:00 to 10:30 on April 1st.

[0107] In this case, the calculation performed by the time calculation unit CS14 may result in an estimate of the equipment operating time being about 30 minutes longer, but this can be considered as the surplus time for occupying the temporary elevator, and as a result, the occupancy time will not be long enough to become a problem.

[0108] On the other hand, the above is just one example, and in the case of a site where work such as cleanup begins after construction is completed, it is likely that waste disposal work will also begin after construction is completed. In such a case, the reservation registration unit CS15 may be configured to make a reservation for use of the temporary elevator between 10:30 and 11:00 on April 1st.

[0109] As described above, according to the transportation management system CS1 of this embodiment, the transportation management system CS1 accesses the process progress management system CS2, which is generally system-managed, detects transportation work, calculates the occupancy time of the temporary elevator to be occupied for the transportation work, and makes a reservation for the temporary elevator, thereby reducing the effort required to reserve the use of the temporary elevator.

[0110] For example, when the items being transported are temporary materials that make up scaffolding or the like, and the temporary materials are being transported to a moving floor, there have been cases in the past where the temporary elevator was used to transport the materials without a reservation being made.However, with the transportation management system CS1, reservations for the use of temporary elevators for transporting such items, which are often forgotten to be reserved, are automatically made.

[0111] This effectively reduces the occurrence of wasted time, such as when a temporary elevator is already in use and workers have to wait when trying to transport temporary materials to a destination floor. Booking a temporary elevator for the transport work of transporting temporary materials to a destination floor is a suitable example of the transport management system CS1.

[0112] On the other hand, construction work may be delayed due to delays, but as explained above, the construction plans managed by the process progress management system CS2 are periodically revised to reflect these delays (for example, at least once a day).

[0113] If such a correction is made, when the transportation management system CS1 accesses the process progress management system CS2, transportation work that was previously detected will no longer be detected, and transportation work that was not previously detected will be detected.

[0114] As described above, this is due to the revision of the construction plan, so the transportation management system CS1 may change the reservation of the temporary elevator in accordance with the latest status.

[0115] In other words, if there is a reservation for a temporary elevator on a date and time when transportation work cannot be detected, it is assumed that transportation work will no longer occur due to a revision of the construction plan, so the transportation management system CS1 will cancel the reservation.

[0116] On the other hand, if transportation work is detected on a date and time when there is no reservation for a temporary elevator, it is assumed that the transportation work has occurred as a result of a revision to the construction plan (including cases where construction work is added), and the transportation management system CS1 will make a reservation for a temporary elevator.

[0117] For this reason, it is preferable that the advance information acquisition unit CS13 is configured to access the process progress management system CS2 at an appropriate predetermined timing, and by accessing the process progress management system CS2 at an appropriate timing, it becomes possible to make appropriate changes to the temporary elevator reservations in accordance with changes in the process progress management system CS2.

[0118] For example, it is desirable that the predetermined timing be set to a timing that allows access more frequently than the frequency of revisions made in accordance with the construction progress in the process progress management system CS2.

[0119] As mentioned above, construction progress is often registered in the process progress management system CS2 at least once a day, and considering that there is a high possibility that the construction plan will be revised to match the progress when the construction progress is registered, it is preferable to set the specified timing at least once a day.

[0120] Furthermore, since the more predetermined timings there are, the more appropriate changes can be made to temporary elevator reservations, the more frequent the predetermined timings can be, for example, once an hour or more.

[0121] Furthermore, in this embodiment, as mentioned above, the user terminal 1 can also access the transportation management system CS1, and construction personnel can operate the user terminal 1 to access the transportation management system CS1 and add or change reservations for temporary elevators.

[0122] In this embodiment, the transportation management system CS1 makes reservations for temporary elevators based on the order in which transportation work using the temporary elevator is detected as a priority, but if the user terminal 1 can be used to add or change reservations for the temporary elevator, reservations can be adjusted as necessary.

[0123] <<Second embodiment>> Next, a transportation management system CS1 according to a second embodiment of the present disclosure will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining an overview of the operating environment of the transportation management system CS1 of the second embodiment according to the present disclosure.

[0124] The basic configuration of the transportation management system CS1 of the second embodiment is similar to that of the first embodiment, so the following mainly describes the parts that differ from the first embodiment, and may omit explanations of the similar parts.

[0125] In the first embodiment, the transportation management system CS1 accesses the process progress management system CS2 to detect transportation work and reserve a temporary elevator.

[0126] On the other hand, the transportation management system CS1 of the second embodiment differs from the first embodiment in that, as shown in Figure 5, it accesses the equipment and materials management system CS3, which is a management system that manages equipment and materials, detects transportation work that requires a temporary elevator, and makes a reservation for the temporary elevator.

[0127] FIG. 6 is a diagram conceptually showing the contents of materials and equipment managed by the materials and equipment management system CS3 of the second embodiment according to the present disclosure. Note that Figure 6 merely shows the portion of the content registered in the equipment and materials management system CS3 that corresponds to the following explanation, and in reality, more detailed information related to equipment and materials is registered.

[0128] The equipment and materials management system CS3 manages the usage status of equipment such as materials (temporary materials) that make up scaffolding, and reservations for use of small aerial work platforms that are used inside buildings, and construction personnel operate user terminals 1 to access the equipment and materials management system CS3 to make reservations for equipment and materials.

[0129] As shown in FIG. 6, the equipment and materials management system CS3 registers information such as what equipment and materials will be used where, on what date and by which vendor.

[0130] Specifically, as shown in the speech bubble, the equipment and materials management system CS3 registers, for each reservation of equipment and materials, the "reservation company (in Figure 6, B Construction), planned use content, date and time of use (in Figure 6, April 1st, 13:00-15:00), floor to be used (in Figure 6, 5th floor), and equipment and materials to be reserved for use (in Figure 6, reserved materials: 5 DD materials, reserved equipment: 2 ZZ machines, 3 WW machines), etc."

[0131] In addition, since the equipment and materials (temporary materials, small aerial work vehicles, etc.) that are used by reserving their use are items that are used multiple times, information such as what date and time, which contractor will use what equipment and materials, and where is generally managed by a system, not limited to this embodiment, and the transportation management system CS1 only needs to be able to access such a general system and perform the necessary processing.

[0132] As in the first embodiment, the information storage unit CS12 stores the names of materials and equipment (material and equipment names) as detection information for detecting transportation work using the temporary elevator. Specifically, the information storage unit CS12 stores DD material, ZZ machine, WW machine, etc. as detection information for detecting transport work using a temporary elevator.

[0133] Also, as in the first embodiment, the information storage unit CS12 stores the temporary elevator movement time, reserve time, the number of items that can be carried in corresponding to the name of the equipment and materials, and the carrying-in and carrying-out times as time information used to calculate the temporary elevator occupancy time.

[0134] Therefore, in the second embodiment of the transportation management system CS1, as in the first embodiment, the transportation management system CS1 accesses the equipment and materials management system CS3 and, based on detection information that detects transportation work using a temporary elevator, obtains advance information including the transportation content and transportation date and time of the detected transportation work, calculates the occupancy time of the temporary elevator from the transportation content, and makes a reservation for use of the temporary elevator on the transportation date and time for the occupancy time.

[0135] In the second embodiment, the advance information acquisition unit CS13 acquires the use date and time (April 1st, 13:00-15:00 in Figure 6) as the transportation date and time of the advance information, and acquires 5 DD materials (quantity 5 of DD materials), 2 ZZ machines (quantity 2 of ZZ machines), 3 WW machines (quantity 3 of WW machines), and the use floor 5 (transport floor 5, the destination floor) as the transportation contents of the advance information.

[0136] In this way, the second embodiment also reduces the effort required to make reservations for the use of the temporary elevator.

[0137] Furthermore, it is believed that the materials and equipment control system CS3, which controls the usage status of temporary materials, etc., manages them in more detail than the process progress control system CS2.

[0138] Therefore, the second embodiment, in which the transportation management system CS1 accesses the equipment and materials management system CS3 to make reservations for temporary elevators, is considered to be more suitable for reserving temporary elevators for transportation work to transport temporary materials to the moving floor.

[0139] <<Third Embodiment>> Next, a transportation management system CS1 according to a third embodiment of the present disclosure will be described with reference to FIGS. Since the basic configuration of the transportation management system CS1 of the third embodiment is similar to that of the second embodiment, the following mainly describes the parts that differ from the second embodiment, and may omit explanations of the similar parts.

[0140] FIG. 7 is a diagram conceptually showing the contents of materials and equipment managed by the materials and equipment management system CS3 of the third embodiment according to the present disclosure, and corresponds to FIG. Note that Figure 7 merely shows the portion of the content registered in the equipment and materials management system CS3 that corresponds to the following explanation, and in reality, more detailed information related to equipment and materials is registered.

[0141] Materials and equipment (temporary construction materials, small aerial work platforms, etc.) that are used after reservation may be assigned an identifier such as an ID and managed for asset management or rental item management purposes.

[0142] Specifically, as shown in Figure 7, the reserved materials for use are registered with DD material IDs D0001, D0002, D0003, D0004, and D0005, and the reserved equipment for use is registered with ZZ machine IDs Z0001 and Z0002 and WW machine IDs W0001, W0002, and W0003.

[0143] In such a case, the detection information for detecting transportation work using a temporary elevator stored in the information storage unit CS12 can be the identifier assigned to the equipment or materials to be transported by the temporary elevator, and the time information used to calculate the occupancy time of the temporary elevator can also be made to correspond to the identifier such as ID assigned to the equipment or materials.

[0144] FIG. 8 is a diagram for explaining the contents stored in the information storage unit CS12 according to the third embodiment of the present disclosure. In addition to the contents stored in the information storage unit CS12 of the first embodiment described with reference to Figure 4, in the third embodiment, an item of an identifier assigned to each individual equipment or material corresponding to the equipment or material name is added, as shown in Figure 8.

[0145] Therefore, the advance information acquisition unit CS13 accesses the equipment and materials management system CS3 via the communication unit CS11, and if D0001 to D0005, Z0001, Z0002, and W0001 to W0003, etc., which are detection information for detecting transportation work using a temporary elevator and are stored in the information storage unit CS12, are registered in the reserved equipment and materials (reserved materials and reserved equipment), it detects the transportation of equipment and materials that require transportation work using a temporary elevator.

[0146] As shown in Figure 8, the information storage unit CS12 of the third embodiment also stores the temporary elevator movement time, reserve time, the number of items that can be carried in corresponding to the name of the equipment and materials, and the carrying-in and carrying-out time (minutes) as time information used to calculate the temporary elevator occupancy time.

[0147] Therefore, in the third embodiment of the transportation management system CS1, as in the second embodiment, the transportation management system CS1 accesses the equipment and materials management system CS3 and, based on detection information that detects transportation work using a temporary elevator, obtains advance information including the transportation content and transportation date and time of the detected transportation work, calculates the occupancy time of the temporary elevator from the transportation content, and makes a reservation for use of the temporary elevator on the transportation date and time for the occupancy time.

[0148] As can be seen from Figure 8, in the advance information acquisition unit CS13 of the third embodiment, as the transportation content of the advance information, identifiers such as IDs of reserved materials and equipment correspond to the items (material and equipment names) to be transported, and the number of identifiers such as IDs of reserved materials and equipment corresponding to the same material and equipment name corresponds to the quantity of items to be transported.

[0149] Specifically, D0001 to D0005 are DD materials, and five IDs or other identifiers (D0001 to D0005) are registered for the reserved materials, and the number of registered identifiers, 5, corresponds to the quantity of DD materials, 5.

[0150] Therefore, based on identifiers such as IDs registered in the reserved equipment, the advance information acquisition unit CS13 acquires the items to be transported (in Figure 7, DD materials, ZZ machines, and WW machines) and the quantities of the items to be transported (5 DD materials, 2 ZZ machines, and 3 WW machines) as the transport contents. In other respects, the third embodiment is similar to the second embodiment.

[0151] Although the present disclosure has been described above based on specific embodiments, it should be understood that the present disclosure is not limited to the above embodiments. The present disclosure also encompasses modifications and improvements to the embodiments within its technical scope, which will be apparent to those skilled in the art from the claims. [Explanation of symbols]

[0152] 1...User terminal, 2...Cloud server, CS1...Transportation management system, CS11...Communication unit, CS12...Information storage unit, CS13...Advance information acquisition unit, CS14...Time calculation unit, CS15...Reservation registration unit, CS2...Process progress management system, CS3...Materials and equipment management system, N...Network

Claims

1. A transportation management system that accesses a management system that manages process progress or materials and equipment, detects transportation work from the registered contents of the management system, and makes a reservation for the use of a temporary elevator, The transportation management system includes: a preliminary information acquisition unit that accesses the management system and acquires preliminary information including the transportation content and transportation date and time of the detected transportation work based on detection information that detects the transportation work; a time calculation unit that calculates an occupancy time of the temporary elevator from the transportation details when the advance information acquisition unit acquires the advance information; A transportation management system comprising: a reservation registration unit that, when the advance information acquisition unit acquires the advance information, makes a reservation to use the temporary elevator on the transportation date and time during the occupancy time.

2. The transportation management system according to claim 1, wherein the advance information acquisition unit accesses the management system at a predetermined timing, thereby changing the reservation of the temporary elevator in accordance with changes in the management system.

3. The transportation management system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the transportation details include items to be transported, the quantity of the items, and the transportation floor.

4. The article is a temporary material, The transportation management system according to claim 3, wherein the transportation work is moving the temporary materials up and down the floors.

5. A transportation management system as described in claim 1 or claim 2, wherein the detection information uses at least one of the name of the equipment or materials to be transported by the temporary elevator or an identifier assigned to the equipment or materials to be transported by the temporary elevator.

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