Method and device for distributing packages and other similar dispatched articles

摘要

In a method for distributing packages or similar dispatched articles, packages that are to be transported from a private and/or commercial sender to an addressee are acquired in a collecting location. In this collecting location, the packages are provided with a package code that has electronically detectable data, and subsequently, the packages are distributed and/or delivered by means of transport vehicles. According to the invention, the collected packages are supplied to a HUB center that is connected to several collecting locations and in the HUB center the respective package codes are expanded with measurement data (length, width, height, weight) of the package to a package routing code. These package routing codes of all packages are supplied to a central computer and the packages are arranged in accordance with a route planning that can be dynamically optimized by the central computer into a sequence that is sorted in accordance with distribution zones. This package arrangement as well as the package routing codes are received by a vehicle in a distribution-compatible sorted arrangement and, subsequently, the packages are delivered by a controlled distribution in an automatically controllable way to the addressee.

主权项

1. A method for distributing packages or similar dispatched articles, the method comprising the steps of:
acquiring packages that are to be transported from private senders and/or commercial senders to an addressee at collecting locations; providing the packages at the collecting locations with a package code containing at least an address and a package number as electronically detectable data; supplying the collected packages to a HUB center that is associated with the collecting locations combining in the HUB center the package codes with data sets comprising measurement data (length, width, height, weight), geo coordinates (addressees) and identification data of the packages, respectively, to controllable package routing codes, respectively; supplying the package routing codes of all the packages to a central computer arranging the packages according to output signals that are generated by a program of the central computer and that effect a dynamically optimizable route planning in a sorted package sequence sorted in accordance with distribution zones; introducing the sorted package sequence and the package routing codes into transport boxes in a distribution-compatible sorted arrangements; transferring the transport boxes onto a vehicle; delivering automatically controlled the packages by a navigation-controlled distribution to the addressee, respectively.