Patent ID: 8744660

Claim:
A collection and delivery support system that displays a travel route used in collecting and delivering cargos on a mobile terminal attached to a vehicle body of an electric vehicle that includes a battery and a battery-driven electric motor in a power unit, the collection and delivery support system comprising: a collection and delivery destination register that registers information on respective collection and delivery destinations of the cargos, and information of charging locations which are located within a range where the cargos are to be collected and delivered and where the battery can be charged, and outputs the registered information on the collection and delivery destinations and on the charging locations; a route calculator that calculates a route passing, in order, the respective collection and delivery destinations inputted from the collection and delivery destination register relative to a possible traveling distance over which the electric vehicle can travel; and a residual battery power sensor that detects a residual quantity of electric power stored in the battery and outputs information on the detected residual quantity of electric power, which relates to the possible traveling distance, to the mobile terminal; wherein the route calculator calculates the route such that the route includes at least one of the charging locations in the middle thereof based on the registered information and the possible traveling distance, and calculates estimated collection and delivery times at which the cargos are to be collected and delivered at the respective collection and delivery destinations based on the route calculated.