TRAVEL ROUTE OPERATION DEVICE, DELIVERY SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CALCULATING TRAVEL ROUTE BY TRAVEL ROUTE OPERATION DEVICE, AND PROGRAM

• Main Author: NISHIYA KOJI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 17.10.2019
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; CONVEYING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS; SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS; STORING; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING ORTIPPING; TRANSPORTING

To provide a travel route operation device allowing fuel to be surely supplied to a relay vehicle and a delivery vehicle.SOLUTION: A travel route operation device comprises: an information acquisition unit which acquires position information including current position information, possible travel distance information including information about a possible travel distance, and delivery destination information including a position of a delivery destination and information about a delivery time to the delivery destination, from each of a delivery vehicle for delivering a package to the delivery destination and a relay vehicle for transporting the package to a relay point; a relay point determination unit which determines the relay point on the basis of information indicative of a position of a hub being a start point of the relay vehicle and the delivery destination information; a travel route calculation unit which calculates respective travel routes of the relay vehicle and the delivery vehicle on the basis of the relay point determined by the relay point determination unit, the position information, and the possible travel distance information; and a travel instruction unit which transmits the respective travel routes of the relay vehicle and the delivery vehicle, which routes are calculated by the travel route calculation unit, to the relay vehicle and the delivery vehicle respectively.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 7 【課題】中継車及び配送車に燃料を確実に供給させることのできる走行経路演算装置を提供する。【解決手段】走行経路演算装置は、荷物を配達先に配達する配送車及び前記荷物を中継点まで運搬する中継車のそれぞれから、現在位置の情報を含む位置情報と、走行可能な距離に係る情報を含む走行可能距離情報と、前記配達先の位置及び配送先への配達時刻の情報を含む配達先情報を取得する情報取得部と、前記中継車の出発点である拠点の位置を示す情報と、前記配達先情報とに基づいて、前記中継点を決定する中継点決定部と、前記中継点決定部が決定した前記中継点と、前記位置情報及び前記走行可能距離情報とに基づいて、前記中継車及び前記配送車それぞれの走行経路を算出する走行経路算出部と、前記走行経路算出部の算出した前記中継車及び前記配送車それぞれの走行経路を、対応する前記中継車及び前記配送車それぞれに送信する走行指示部と、を備える。【選択図】図７