Vehicle management system
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYukinari KATO, Shintaro MATSUTANI, Keiichi UNO
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Abstract
A management server executes a process including: a step of acquiring operation information) when an execution condition is established; a step of setting a traveling route; a step of setting a first usage fee as a fee, when there is a vehicle set on a forwarding route, and when the vehicle on the forwarding route is in a high load state; a step of setting a second usage fee that is higher than the first usage fee as the usage fee when the vehicle on the forwarding route is in a low load state; a step of setting a usage fee for the vehicle on a normal route; and a step of transmitting fee information to the vehicle.
Claims4
A vehicle management system comprising:
- a vehicle that is used to provide a transportation service;
- and
- a server that is able to communicate with the vehicle,
- wherein the server
- calculates a load degree indicating a degree of a load that acts on the vehicle when the vehicle travels on a predetermined traveling route by using a request information, when the request information including a request for provision of the transportation service using the vehicle on the predetermined traveling route is acquired, and
- sets a usage fee such that when the calculated load degree is high, the usage fee for providing the transportation service on the predetermined traveling route is lower than when the load degree is low.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.