Vehicle and drone management system

A system for delivering packages, comprising:

• a plurality of land vehicles;
• a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), wherein each of the plurality of land vehicles carries at least one of the plurality of UAVs, wherein each land vehicle includes a UAV bay for storing one or more UAVs and UAV support equipment;
• and
• a computer system comprising a memory storing computer executable instructions and a processor configured to:
• determine, based on a number of packages to be delivered to destinations in a geographical area, a number of the land vehicles to carry the packages to within a UAV round-trip range of each of the destinations;
• allocate the number of packages to the number of land vehicles, each land vehicle being allocated a set of destinations;
• determine a route for each land vehicle that brings the land vehicle within the UAV round-trip range of each destination within the set of destinations, wherein the processor is configured to determine the route by:
• establishing a dispatch area for each destination by determining a radius around each destination, wherein the radius is within the UAV round-trip range;
• detecting locations where dispatch areas for different destinations overlap;
• assigning a dispatch location at a location where the most dispatch areas overlap;
• removing destinations covered by the selected dispatch location from the set of destinations;
• and
• assigning another dispatch location until every destination is covered by a respective dispatch location, wherein each dispatch location allows parking of the land vehicle;
• and
• dispatch, for each destination, a UAV carrying the package from the land vehicle at the selected dispatch location for the destination along the respective route, wherein the UAV bay is configured to refresh power on the at least one UAV to increase or maintain the UAV round-trip range.