Patent ID: 11914384
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 1:
2. A vehicle management method comprising:
receiving, from a user, request information including a date and time, a departure point, and a destination;
assigning an assigned vehicle based on the date and time included in the request information;
deriving a plurality of travel routes based on the departure point and the destination included in the request information;
acquiring section energy consumptions of a plurality of road sections on the plurality of the travel routes, based on the assigned vehicle travelling on the plurality of the road sections, each section energy consumption being derived based on, for a respective road section: information on the assigned vehicle, information on road undulations in the respective road section, and information on vehicle speed obtained by collecting and averaging vehicle speeds of vehicles traveling on the respective road section;
respectively estimating an estimated energy consumption of the assigned vehicle in based on the assigned vehicle travelling on each travel route of the plurality of the travel routes, the estimated energy consumption being based on the section energy consumptions for the road sections on each travel route;
selecting a selected travel route, of the plurality of the travel routes, based on the estimated energy consumption for the assigned vehicle traveling on the selected travel route; and
controlling the assigned vehicle to autonomously travel according to the selected travel route.