A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN INDICATION OF AN ANTICIPATED TIME OF ARRIVAL OF A COURIER AT A PREDETERMINED WAYPOINT

摘要

A system (1) for providing an indication of the anticipated time of arrival of couriers at selected waypoints that have been earlier allocated to those couriers. System (1) also allocates a plurality of items (2) to one or more typically geographically spaced apart couriers (3) having respective communications devices in the form of handheld mobile computers (4). The computers (4) provide courier location signals that include courier location data. This courier location data, in this embodiment, takes the form of a courier location data records (5) containing, amongst other things, GPS data that is contained within an alpha numeric field (6) that is indicative of the geographic location (7) of the respective courier. Computers (4) visually display respective target indicia (8), where indicia (8) provides a visual indication of at least one waypoint (9) for the respective courier.