Fully automated vehicle dispatching, monitoring and billing

A system for controlling vehicles to provide transportation services, comprising:

• a database including records each documenting needed transportation services;
• processing circuitry performing a dispatching process without human intervention, said dispatching process including reviewing said records, locating a record indicating a need for immediate transportation service, and instructing a vehicle to provide said transportation service;
• said processing circuitry further performing a monitoring process without human intervention, said monitoring process including reviewing said records and vehicle activity information to identify transportation services which are not being adequately provided;
• and
• communication circuitry forwarding instructions produced by said dispatching process from said processing circuitry to a vehicle;
• said communication circuitry further providing vehicle activity information relating to said vehicle to said processing circuitry for review by said monitoring process.