Method for monitoring the transport of goods to predetermined removal stations

Abstract

Abstract Method for monitoring the transportation of goods to predetermined removal stations by means of transport vehicles within a spatially extended region, for example a state, with automatic determination of the distance travelled in each case and detection of this distance in an on-board computer. In a monitoring station, an individual route, containing removal stations, is stored as tour schedule with regard to the relevant route segments, travelling and standstill times for each transport vehicle in a central computer, which schedule is transmitted to the respective on-board computer, stored in it as nominal tour and compared with the actual values forming the actual tour, which are determined as actual route segments and actual times by means of the travel of the transport vehicle and a clock, a difference value being determined from the continuous comparison of the nominal values of the nominal tour with the actual values, which difference value, when a particular limit value is exceeded, conveys to the central computer via a radio data link between the transport vehicle and central station a limit value signal which contains the location established in the transport vehicle and the relevant time, whereupon the central computer, using the relevant tour schedule as a basis, modifies the latter into a replacement tour schedule and transmits it via the radio data link to the on-board computer, which replacement tour schedule is monitored with respect to nominal and actual values in the same manner as the original tour schedule. <IMAGE>

Inventors

• 👤 Heinrich Wanko

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