US 11,735,047 B2
Ride-sharing system and ride-sharing method
Yoshiaki Matsuo, Tokyo-to (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Mar. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/656,574.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-052134 (JP), filed on Mar. 25, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0309922 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. G08G 1/127 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01); G06Q 10/0631 (2023.01); G06Q 50/30 (2012.01); G08G 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC G08G 1/127 (2013.01) [B60W 30/18163 (2013.01); B60W 60/00253 (2020.02); G06Q 10/06314 (2013.01); G06Q 50/30 (2013.01); G08G 1/22 (2013.01); B60W 2556/45 (2020.02)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A ride-sharing system for providing a ride-share service; comprising:
a ride-sharing vehicle group composed of at least three automated drive vehicles running on a circular route including at least two pick-up and drop-off points; and
a management server configured to manage an operation of the ride-sharing vehicle group,
wherein the management server configured to execute interval adjustment processing to adjust a service frequency of the ride-sharing vehicle group based on operating state information of the ride-sharing vehicle group,
wherein, in the interval adjustment processing, the management server configured to:
judge whether or not a vehicle pair composed of two vehicles in a relationship of a preceding vehicle and a following vehicle contain a stopping vehicle as the following vehicle that stops in any one of the at least two pick-up and drop-off points;
judge whether or not the vehicle pair fall under a separated pair;
when the service frequency of the vehicle pair exceeds a maximum time, determine that the vehicle pair falls under the separated pair;
when it is judge that the vehicle pair includes the stopping vehicle as the following vehicle and the vehicle pair falls under the separated pair, execute selection processing to select from a remaining vehicle group excluding the separated pair from the ride-sharing vehicle group an overtaking vehicle that overtakes the stopping vehicle to cut into the separated pair; and
transmit an overtake instruction to the overtaking vehicle selected in the selection processing,
wherein, in the selection processing, the management server configured to:
extract a candidate of the overtaking vehicle from the remaining vehicle group;
judge whether or not a pick-up and/or a drop-off of a user by the candidate is scheduled in a path from an actual position of the candidate to that of the stopping vehicle in the circular route; and
when it is judged that the pick-up and/or the drop-off of the user by the candidate is not scheduled, decide the said candidate as the overtaking vehicle.