Operating management system, operating management method, and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10089864-B2
Application number	US-201414914976-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 27, 2014
Priority date	Aug 30, 2013
Publication date	Oct 2, 2018
Grant date	Oct 2, 2018

Abstract

There is provided an operating management system including: on-board units ( 100 ) that are each mounted on a plurality of vehicles ( 1 a, 1 b , . . . ) and are configured to be capable of acquiring travel information which includes positional information of the vehicles ( 1 a, 1 b , . . . ); and an operating management apparatus ( 600 ) that includes a travel-information acquisition unit which acquires the travel information from the on-board units ( 100 ) of the plurality of vehicles ( 1 a, 1 b , . . . ) and an evaluation unit which evaluates driving of the vehicles ( 1 a, 1 b , . . . ), based on relative operating states, for the plurality of vehicles ( 1 a, 1 b , . . . ) specified based on the travel information.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An operating management system comprising:
on-board units that are to be mounted on a plurality of vehicles and are configured to be capable of acquiring travel information which includes positional information on each vehicle; and
an operating management apparatus that includes
a travel-information acquisition unit which acquires the travel information from each of the on-board units of the plurality of vehicles, and
an evaluation unit which evaluates a driving technique of each driver of the vehicles, based on relative operating states regarding the plurality of vehicles specified based on the travel information and proper operating states predetermined per a location or section on a travel route of the plurality of vehicles.

2. The operating management system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the operating management apparatus further includes a driving instruction output unit which generates and outputs driving instruction information for driving instruction to each of the plurality of vehicles based on results of evaluation performed by the evaluation unit.

3. The operating management system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the operating management apparatus further includes a vehicle interval computing unit that calculates a vehicle interval between each of the plurality of vehicles and another adjacent vehicle based on the plurality of pieces of the positional information which is acquired by the on-board units mounted on the plurality of vehicles, and
wherein the evaluation unit evaluates the driving technique of each driver of the vehicles based on the vehicle interval.

4. The operating management system according to claim 3 ,
wherein the operating management apparatus further includes a traffic jam information acquisition unit that acquires traffic jam information about a route through which the plurality of vehicles travels, and
wherein the evaluation unit evaluates the driving technique of each driver of the vehicles based on the traffic jam information and the vehicle interval.

5. The operating management system according to claim 3 ,
wherein the operating management apparatus further includes a vehicle occupancy information acquisition unit that acquires vehicle occupancy information which indicates the number of passengers of each of the plurality of vehicles, and
wherein the evaluation unit evaluates the driving technique of each driver of the vehicles based on the vehicle occupancy information and the vehicle interval.

6. The operating management system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the operating management apparatus further includes a proper vehicle allocation number computing unit that calculates proper vehicle allocation numbers such that vehicle intervals between the plurality of vehicles on the travel route become a proper interval based on results of evaluations performed by the evaluation unit.

7. An operating management method comprising:
acquiring travel information by a travel-information acquisition unit from on-board units that are each mounted on a plurality of vehicles and are configured to be capable of acquiring the travel information which includes positional information of the vehicles; and
evaluating a driving technique of each driver of the vehicles by an evaluation unit, based on relative operating states for the plurality of vehicles specified based on the travel information and proper operating states predetermined per a location or section on a travel route of the plurality of vehicles.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium that stores a program causing a computer of an operating management apparatus to function:
acquiring travel information from on-board units that are each mounted on a plurality of vehicles and are configured to be capable of acquiring the travel information which includes positional information on each vehicle; and
evaluating a driving technique of each driver of the vehicles, based on relative operating states for the plurality of vehicles specified based on the travel information and proper operating states predetermined per a location or section on a travel route of the plurality of vehicles.

9. The operating management system according to claim 3 , wherein the evaluation unit is configured to evaluate whether the driver is maintaining at least one of a vehicle interval between the vehicle and a preceding vehicle and a vehicle interval between the vehicle and a subsequent vehicle within a predetermined appropriate vehicle interval.

10. The operating management system according to claim 9 , wherein the evaluation unit is configured to evaluate whether the driver is maintaining the proper operating states when the vehicle intervals between the vehicle and the preceding vehicle and between the vehicle and the subsequent vehicle deviate from the predetermined appropriate vehicle intervals.

11. The operating management system according to claim 9 , wherein the evaluation unit is configured to set the predetermined vehicle intervals according to the location or the section on the travel route of the plurality of vehicles.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Mechatronics Systems Ltd
• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Mach Systems Ltd

Inventors

• Oshima Kyoko
• Hiura Ryota
• Sato Masaaki
• Sugiura Kazunori

Classifications

• G08G1/20

  Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles · CPC title

• G08G1/0125 Primary

  Traffic data processing · CPC title

• G08G1/096775

  where the origin of the information is a central station · CPC title

• G08G1/13 Primary

  the indicator being in the form of a map · CPC title

• G08G1/0133

  for classifying traffic situation · CPC title