Patent ID: 7024291

Claim:
A maintenance scheduling apparatus for making up maintenance schedules for a plurality of vehicles, comprising: detection means for detecting vehicle information including at least one of operating situations and vehicular states of the plurality of vehicles, the detection means detecting respective present positions and at least one of consumption and residual quantities of fuel of the plurality of vehicles, position storage means for storing positional information of maintenance locations where maintenance for the vehicles is done, and scheduling means for making up the maintenance schedules for the plurality of vehicles and determining whether respective vehicles of the plurality of vehicles have sufficient fuel for travel to respective maintenance locations based on the detected vehicle information, the positional information of the maintenance locations stored in the position storage mean, the detected present positions, and the at least one of detected consumption and residual quantities of fuel of the respective vehicles, where the maintenance schedules prevent more vehicles than a predetermined number of vehicles from being suspended in operation at the same time.