A VEHICLE JOURNEY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Methods of operating vehicle management systems, particularly for the delivery of goods which can degrade during a journey such as concrete. The methods include registering a different time slot for two vehicles 18,20 to park in a parking location 16. The parking location can be an area allocated fo...

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Hauptverfasser: WRIGLEY, Julian, HERRON, Neil Andrew
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Sprache:eng ; fre ; ger
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Zusammenfassung:Methods of operating vehicle management systems, particularly for the delivery of goods which can degrade during a journey such as concrete. The methods include registering a different time slot for two vehicles 18,20 to park in a parking location 16. The parking location can be an area allocated for loading or unloading near premises. In a first method, the locations of the vehicles are used to estimate their expected arrival times. If one vehicle will be late and another early, then their allocated time slots are swapped. In a second method, one vehicle is transporting goods which must be delivered within a time window. A variable of the goods or the vehicle is measured, for example to infer the quality of the goods, and this is used to recalculate the time window. If the time window no longer matches the allocated time slot, then the vehicle is reallocated to the time slot of the other vehicle, providing that it corresponds to its expected arrival time.