Congo: System and Method of Transportation Using Carrier Vehicles and Personal Transport Vehicles

摘要

In accordance with one embodiment a person uses a personal transport vehicle to ride to a pickup point. At the pickup point, both the person and his/her personal transport vehicle get on a carrier vehicle. Carrier vehicle transports them from the pickup point to the drop off point. While in transit, the carrier vehicle also recharges the battery on the personal transport vehicle. Hence the acronym CONGO, stands for Charge ON the GO. At the drop off point person gets off the carrier vehicle along with the personal transport vehicle and covers the remainder of the distance to the desired destination on the personal transport vehicle. According to one embodiment persons use an application software on a smart phone to communicate their requests for a ride to a scheduler system and receive directions therefrom. A scheduler system receives requests and status updates from persons and carrier vehicles and controls the overall operation of the transportation system.

主权项

1) A transportation system comprising:
at least a self-propelled carrier vehicle configured to carry at least a person and at least a personal transport vehicle with means to charge the battery on said personal transport vehicle; at least a self-propelled personal transport vehicle configured to carry at least said person; at least an instance of smartphone application means communicably attached to a scheduler system thereby enabling said person to interact with said scheduling system; said scheduler system communicably attached to at least said carrier vehicle and at least said instance of smartphone application thereby enabling scheduling of said carrier vehicles and said persons.