Patent ID: 6975248

Claim:
A transportation management system for managing a transportation state of a transportation object by a transportation system for transporting the transportation object from a fixed point to another fixed point along a predetermined route by means of a transportation medium to be periodically operated along the route, comprising: a management terminal device provided in the transportation medium; and a management body device for remotely managing the transportation state of the transportation object, the management terminal device having: a position detecting device for detecting a current position of the transportation medium; a get-on/off detecting device for detecting delivery in/out of the transportation object to/from the transportation medium; and a transportation information transmitter for transmitting transportation information including current position information of the transportation medium and delivery-in/out information of the transportation object to the management body device, the management body device having: a transportation information receiver for receiving transportation information transmitted from the management terminal device; a distance storage for storing predetermined transportation distance information for each transportation object; a collator for collating the received transportation information with the transportation distance information; and a deciding device for deciding the transportation state of the transportation object based on a result of the collation by the collator.