Patent ID: 7528715
Filing Date: 2009-05-05
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A system for performing optimal vehicle dispatch, comprising: client terminals to supply information of orders; transportation company terminals to supply information of available vehicles; a management server for vehicle dispatch including a transportation region database, an order information database, an available vehicle information database, and a vehicle dispatch information database to perform optimal vehicle dispatch based on the information of orders from the client terminals and the information of available vehicles from the transportation company terminals; and a network for communication between the management server and the client terminals and between the management server and the transportation company terminals, wherein the management server for vehicle dispatch performs a process comprising: presetting a plurality of transportation regions including individual regions and superimposed regions, based on a transportation time condition and information of a past order quantity and a congestion degree of orders, followed by storing information of the plurality of preset transportation regions in the available vehicle database of the management server; receiving the information of orders including an order quantity and an assignment location of each order to store the information of orders in the order information database, and receiving the information of available vehicles including types and the number of available vehicles from the transportation company terminals to store the information of available vehicles in the available vehicle database of the management server; establishing a vehicle dispatch schedule optimized in order of high loading volumes of the vehicles under restrictive conditions of vehicle sizes, minimum loading rates, and a maximum number of assignment locations, based on the information of available vehicles and the information of orders, such that a relevant vehicle performs delivery of goods within a predetermined single transportation region to minimize a total transportation cost for each transportation region, followed by storing the vehicle dispatch schedule in the vehicle dispatch information database of the management server; and supplying information of the optimized vehicle dispatch schedule in the vehicle dispatch information database to the transportation company terminals.