Apparatus for and method of operating a means of transport

US11875299B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Hans-Christian Haag · Stuttgart, DE
• Markus Kromer · Renningen, DE
• Peter Sanders · Bath, GB
• Valentin Buchhold · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 31, 2021
• Grant date: Jan 16, 2024
• Expiry date: Aug 28, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/047
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus for and a method of operating a fleet of vehicles. The apparatus provides a set of routes for moving entities of the fleet of vehicles, provides a request for at least two stops of an entity of the fleet of vehicles including at least one pick up location and at at least one drop off location, selecting a route from the set of routes for that a measure for a distance of one or more stops included in the request to the route meets a condition, inserting the at least one pick up location and at at least one drop off location as stops into the route and instructing to operate an entity according to the route.