EP0288068A1 - Système de guidage pour le transport et le trafic - Google Patents

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EP0288068A1
EP0288068A1 EP88106427A EP88106427A EP0288068A1 EP 0288068 A1 EP0288068 A1 EP 0288068A1 EP 88106427 A EP88106427 A EP 88106427A EP 88106427 A EP88106427 A EP 88106427A EP 0288068 A1 EP0288068 A1 EP 0288068A1
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    • G08G1/00—Traffic control systems for road vehicles
    • G08G1/09—Arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions
    • G08G1/0962—Arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions having an indicator mounted inside the vehicle, e.g. giving voice messages
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  • the invention relates to a transport and traffic control system with a tour computer for optimizing the tour plan for a haulage contractor and with delivery vehicles equipped with a control and information device, and with a traffic control computer of a municipality for a control and information system for individual traffic.
  • a known system for fleet management e.g. TRAFIC-X allows for the optimization of the transport of a fleet by means of a tour computer to include all circumstances of customers, fleet, warehouse and routes in the tour planning.
  • route optimization is only based on air line distances between the distribution centers and the customers.
  • a route network-dependent and situation-dependent or traffic-dependent route planning cannot be carried out.
  • a traffic management and information system is also known, in which the individual vehicles can be guided individually from a respective starting point to destinations that can be entered.
  • a corresponding infrastructure is required in addition to a traffic and information control center.
  • Methods for traffic detection and control are described, for example, in European Patents 021 060, 025 193 and 029 201 and are known under the name ALI-SCOUT.
  • the object of the invention is to propose an integrated transport and traffic control system which allows the two systems to be connected to one another and to specify facilities and measures therefor.
  • a route optimization system of one or more hauliers is connected via data lines to the traffic control computer of a traffic control and information system which is expanded by a transport route computer.
  • Road network data and traffic data such as are recorded, for example, by daily trip lines of travel times for respective sections of the road network, are called up at certain time intervals via the data lines.
  • this data is processed with the tour plan optimization data and tour sequences are determined from this, which, together with guide vector chains, are transmitted to the departing delivery vehicles via loading station beacons installed at the exit of the loading station and connected to the tour computer.
  • the estimated travel times between the loading stations and the customers can be supplied or the travel times from one customer to the next calculated by the central transport route computer and to transfer these travel times to the tour computer for the haulier.
  • the latter can then determine the optimal tour sequences based on the expected travel and loading times.
  • the transport vehicles receive the addresses and coordinates of the customers to be supplied in a sequence, as they have resulted from the tour sequence optimization, together with guidance vector chains through their guidance and information device and process them during the further journey with the location and navigation values determined in the vehicle as well as with the via other beacons installed on the roadside and traffic guidance data received from there. In this way, it is possible to deliver to customers in the shortest possible time with the help of route guidance.
  • the control and information device installed in the delivery vehicle, which has a location and navigation computer and a travel time measuring device, measure and store the respective travel time and the respective downtime for the individual customers.
  • the transport route computer in the control and information center has a transport route computer which determines the expected travel times for the delivery vehicles and transmits them to the tour computer.
  • the central transport route computer calculates the expected travel times between its loading station and the customers to be supplied or between the customers by means of one or more route computers at the request of a tour computer from a haulier.
  • the estimated travel times already determined are transferred to the tour computers.
  • the latter then only have to calculate the optimal tour sequences by minimizing the sum of all travel and loading times for a tour.
  • the data of the customer name and address coordinates are expediently each provided with an identification number which designates the delivery vehicle in question which has loaded the loads for these customers.
  • the functional principle of the control and information system LIS is shown schematically in FIG.
  • the vehicle FZ there is a guidance and information device LIE, which has a locating device O with a magnetic field probe MS and a wheel pulse generator RIG, and a navigation device N with an operating device BG, with a travel time measuring device RZM and with an infrared transmitter SF and an infrared receiver EF.
  • the operating device BG has an input keyboard ET, a target memory ZSp and, for example, a direction indicator ANZ.
  • Traffic and guidance data are transmitted to the beacon LB, which is mounted on the roadside, for example on a mast SM of a light signaling system LSA, via the transmitting and receiving devices SF and EF of the vehicle FZ.
  • beacon LB is connected to the beacon electronics BE, which can be accommodated in the VSG traffic switching device.
  • the traffic switching device VSG is connected to the traffic control computer VLR, which is located in a traffic control and information center VLZ (DL).
  • DL traffic control and information center
  • the integrated transport and traffic control system is shown schematically in FIG.
  • the traffic control and information center VLZ or LIZ has a traffic control computer VLR, which is connected on the one hand with operating and viewing devices and on the other hand with traffic switching devices VSG in the city area.
  • the beacons LB are connected to each traffic control device VSG in addition to the traffic light system LSA.
  • the individual hauliers FU1 to FU3 are connected to the traffic control and information center VLZ or LIZ via data lines DL1. Every haulier has a trip computer TR1 to TR3, which is used to optimize the trip plan.
  • the example of the haulage contractor FU3 shows a loading yard A, the exit of which has loading yard beacons LHB, which are connected to the trip computer TR3 via a data line DL2.
  • Fig. 2 which with a guidance and information LIE device according to Fig.1 are equipped.
  • the right delivery vehicle LFZa leaves the loading yard A and receives the route data from the loading yard beacon LHB.
  • the trip computer TR3 transmits the names, addresses and coordinates of the customers to be supplied (B) in the order in which the vehicles LFZa leave the loading yard and which the trip computer TR3 has calculated as time-optimal.
  • guide vector chains are also transferred to the departing vehicles, which all describe the travel routes issued by their location, as described in European Patent 025 193, as well as a list of all possible destination fields with information on which routes to choose are.
  • the service life measurement begins at a customer when the driver of the delivery vehicle stops near the position specified by the target coordinates.
  • the service life measurement ends when starting after pressing a dedicated start button on the control unit BG of the control and information system LIE of the delivery vehicle LFZ.
  • the position is determined by the location and navigation computer ONR. Together with the customer names, the travel times to these as well as the downtimes are added this is stored in the location and navigation computer and transmitted to the tour computer TR3 when the vehicles LFZr return to loading area A via loading area beacon LHB.
  • the next tours are optimized on the basis of this data.
  • FIG. 3 shows daily curve lines TGL for the travel time tR1, tR2, tR3 etc. for three route sections S1 to S3 depending on the time of day t.
  • the expected travel times for routes are calculated in the traffic control and information center by adding the travel times of the individual route sections.
  • FIG. 4 shows the situation-dependent routing for the transport and traffic management system according to the invention as a three-dimensional problem.
  • the road network description SNB which is stored in digitized form in the xy plane in the traffic control computer, the time is superimposed as a 3rd dimension:
  • the "time levels" t1, t2, t3 ... correspond to the time intervals t1, t2, t3,. .. in Fig.3.
  • the small “clocks” in Fig.4 symbolize the travel times for each route section S1, S2, S3, ... within the time intervals t1, t2, t3 .... These travel times are taken from the travel time curve (Fig.3).
  • a route section S1, S2, S3, ... extends from a node K1, K2, K3, ... in the road network description SNB to the next.
  • the traffic control and information center is divided into the traffic control center of the police VLZP and the control and information center LIZ.
  • the traffic control computer VLR as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, consists of several computers which are connected to one another by a ring bus system.
  • a control computer BR is in the traffic control center of the police VLZP.
  • the guidance and information computer is formed by a supply computer VR, which is used to enter and update the road network, by a gangway computer GLR, which processes the travel and traffic jam times, and by several route computers RR1 to RR3, which are used to calculate the optimal routes .
  • the individual beacons are connected to these via nodes.
  • the transport and traffic control system according to the invention is used for optimal route and destination guidance of delivery vehicles, ie trucks.
  • delivery vehicles ie trucks.
  • trucks are often to be led via other routes because, for example, certain roads are blocked for them.
  • Vehicles with dangerous loads are also not allowed to use tunnel routes.
  • bridges or underpasses for which there are weight, height, length or width restrictions for the vehicles.
  • the road network is therefore prepared for the delivery vehicles.
  • the travel times of the trucks are different from the travel times for cars. Therefore, in the control and information center LIZ there are more computers mentioned above Assigned computers that are connected to the other computers via a ring bus line.
  • a chart computer TGLR for calculating the travel time of the delivery vehicles and three route computers TRR1 to TRR3 for calculating the delivery vehicle routes are combined as one computer, which is referred to as the transport route calculator TRR.
  • This transport route computer TRR can be connected to the tour computers TR of the hauliers FU via a transmission device MODST, MOD. This is shown on the right in Fig. 5.
  • the transmission device here consists of a modem control MODST and a dialing modem MOD, which connects the transport route computer TRR to the tour computer TR via the public telephone network ⁇ N or the data line DL1.
  • FIG. 6 shows how the trip computer TR at the haulage contractor FU is supplemented with further facilities for the transport and traffic control system.
  • a modem for the telephone dialing network MODFU is connected to the trip computer TR.
  • loading yard beacons LHB are connected to the tour computer TR via a beacon connection device BAE and beacon electronics BEFU, as has already been explained with reference to FIG.

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