US 11,987,270 B2
Vehicle dispatch management device and vehicle dispatch management method
Naoki Kojo, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Kanagawa (JP); and RENAULT S.A.S., Boulogne-Billancourt (FR)
Appl. No. 17/045,397
Filed by Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Kanagawa (JP); and RENAULT S.A.S., Boulogne-Billancourt (FR)
PCT Filed Apr. 13, 2018, PCT No. PCT/IB2018/000481
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 5, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/197854, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 17, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0163041 A1, Jun. 3, 2021
Int. Cl. B60W 60/00 (2020.01)
CPC B60W 60/0023 (2020.02) [B60W 60/00253 (2020.02); B60W 2510/244 (2013.01); B60W 2556/45 (2020.02)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle dispatch management system which manages a plurality of shared vehicles and dispatches a dispatched vehicle chosen from the plurality of shared vehicles in response to a dispatch request from a user, the vehicle management system comprising:
a server comprising a processor, a database, and a transceiver, wherein the processor is configured to:
receive a cruising distance of each of the plurality of shared vehicles via the transceiver;
store the cruising distance of each of the plurality of shared vehicles in the database;
calculate a total cruising distance of the plurality of shared vehicles based on the cruising distance of each of the plurality of shared vehicles stored in the database;
determine a necessity of traveling energy supply of the plurality of shared vehicles when the total cruising distance is equal to or less than a first predetermined value;
send a supply instruction to the dispatched vehicle based on determining the necessity of traveling energy supply of the plurality of shared vehicles via the transceiver; and
dispatch the dispatched vehicle to the user based on the supply instruction being received at the dispatched vehicle.