Patent ID: 6947881
Filing Date: 2005-09-20
Classification: B60L,G06Q,G07B,G07C,G07F,G08G,Y02T,Y04S

Abstract:
1. A vehicle sharing system for sharing a fleet of vehicles, comprising: a plurality of ports at geographically remote locations relative to each other; a computer system in communication with said plurality of ports and programmed to defining a search depth vehicle search group (VSG) for each port in which one or more available vehicles from the fleet may be located at any given time for possible allocation to a user at the port, determine a number of vehicles in a first search depth VSG of a first port and, in response thereto, to determine whether additional vehicles should be relocated to the first port; and means for relocating one or more vehicles from a second port to the first port, upon a determination by said computer system that additional vehicles should be relocated to the first port.