System and method for automatically transmitting alert messages based on time and location monitoring in vehicle journey supervision

A system, comprising:

• one or more processing devices;
• a communications interface;
• a non-transitory computer-readable memory operatively connected to the one or more processing devices and having stored thereon machine-readable instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processing devices to:
• obtain, via the communications interface from a computing device, a plurality of parameters for a planned journey of a vehicle associated with the computing device;
• determine, based on the plurality of parameters, whether the planned journey includes at least one special condition;
• in response to determining that the planned journey includes at least one special condition, activate journey monitoring upon initiating the planned journey;
• in response to determining that the planned journey does not include at least one special condition, initiate the planned journey without activating the journey monitoring;
• wherein the journey monitoring comprises:
• obtaining, via the communications interface, a location of the vehicle;
• comparing the obtained location of the vehicle to an expected location based on an expected progress of the initiated journey;
• in response to the comparing indicating that the obtained location of the vehicle exceeds a predetermined distance from the expected location, determine, in an iterative or recursive manner, whether an updated arrival time has been received from one or more of the computing device and the vehicle via the communications interface, said determination comprising:
• in response to determining that the updated arrival time has been received, registering the received updated arrival time in association with the initiated journey and terminating said determining for the updated arrival time;
• in response to determining that the updated arrival time has not been received after a predetermined time period, transmitting an alert to another computing device associated with an operator on a next level in a hierarchy associated with the initiated journey;
• and
• incrementing an iteration counter for a next iteration until the iteration counter exceeds a predetermined iteration number;
• and
• in response to the iteration counter exceeding the predetermined iteration number, transmitting a request for emergency services, said request comprising location information from a plurality of sources selected from the group consisting of:
• a global positioning system (GPS) location associated with the vehicle, a GPS location associated with the computing device, a location associated with the vehicle determined based on one or more terrestrial networks, a location associated with the computing device determined based on one or more terrestrial networks.