Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Denso Corporation

Hiroshi Higashide

Keiichi Uno

Kenji Okazaki

Yu Nagata

A control method for controlling a plurality of vehicles automatically traveling to follow an operation schedule includes judging, by a server, whether a first vehicle is delayed relative to the operation schedule, judging, by the server, whether passing of the first vehicle by a second vehicle has occurred when the first vehicle is judged to be delayed relative to the operation schedule, and setting, by the server, a limit on a vehicle speed of the first vehicle when the passing is judged to have occurred.

Control method, server, and system

An operation management apparatus includes a controller configured to repeatedly determine a delay relative to a standard schedule, with respect to a vehicle operated in accordance with the schedule, the controller suspending determination of the delay for a certain period of time in a case in which the schedule is adjusted according to a result of determination of the delay.

Operation management apparatus, system, operation management method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire, when a suspension of operation occurs in an autonomous vehicle, positional information, vehicle information, a vehicle internal image, and a vehicle external image of the autonomous vehicle, and determine, in a case in which a suspension of operation occurs in a plurality of autonomous vehicles, an order of priority for a rescue team to go to the plurality of vehicles, based on the positional information, the vehicle information, the vehicle internal image, and the vehicle external image.

Processing apparatus for autonomous vehicles undergoing suspension of vehicle operation

An information processing apparatus includes a controller that acquires, from vehicle dispatch centers that each manage an operation plan for a specific area, the operation plan for each area, determines, based on the acquired operation plans, whether a period of time exists, in non-adjacent first and second areas, during which there is a surplus of vehicles in the first area and a shortage of vehicles in the second area, and generates, when the period of time is determined to exist, a vehicle movement plan such that a surplus vehicle in the first area is lent to a vehicle dispatch center that manages an operation plan for an area between the first and second areas, and a vehicle dispatch center in the second area borrows a vehicle from the vehicle dispatch center that manages the operation plan for the area between the first and second areas.

Information processing apparatus for lending and borrowing vehicles between areas, non-transitory computer readable medium, and information processing method

An operation management method for managing a plurality of circulating buses, each circulating bus being introduced into a circulation route from a base and returning to the base to be switched with another circulating bus after traveling a specified number of laps, includes storing, by a server, an operation schedule of the plurality of circulating buses, judging, by the server, whether a predetermined condition is satisfied when a predetermined event not planned in the operation schedule occurs, and revising, by the server, the operation schedule to introduce an additional circulating bus into the circulation route from the base when it is judged that the predetermined condition is satisfied.

Operation management method, server, and system

An introduction necessity judgment unit judges necessity of introduction of an additional vehicle to a circuit based on a boarding demand on the circuit, and outputs an introduction request command when judging that the introduction is necessary. Upon reception of the introduction request command, an introduction timing determiner outputs an introduction command to the additional vehicle when a maximum value of actual operation intervals of operating vehicles is greater than or equal to an interval threshold determined according to a target velocity, and outputs a hold command to the additional vehicle for putting introduction to the circuit on-hold when the maximum value is less than the interval threshold Dr_th.

Operation management apparatus and operation management method of autonomous travel vehicle

An operation management method for managing a plurality of circulating buses, each circulating bus being introduced into a circulation route from a base and returning to the base to be switched with another circulating bus after traveling a specified number of laps, includes storing, by a server, an operation schedule of the plurality of circulating buses, monitoring, by the server, a status of the plurality of circulating buses, and revising, by the server, the operation schedule when a first circulating bus traveling on the circulation route experiences failure before completing a specified number of laps, the operation schedule being revised so that a second circulating bus is introduced into the circulation route and returns to the base to be switched with a third circulating bus before completing the specified number of laps.

An automated driving vehicle includes: a communication device which receives a traveling plan from an operation management device provided outside an vehicle; and an automated driving controller which allows an vehicle the controller is associated with to travel autonomously along a traveling route on which a plurality of stations are set so as to fulfill the traveling plan, in which the automated driving controller has a standard plan which prescribes a standard operation schedule of the vehicle the controller is associated with, and the automated driving controller, in a case where the traveling plan has not arrived or is irregular, generates an interim plan on the basis of the standard plan, and allows the vehicle the controller is associated with to travel autonomously so as to fulfill the interim plan.

Automated driving vehicle, and method for controlling the vehicle

An operation management apparatus includes a controller configured to determine, in a case in which a first vehicle that has been operated in accordance with a schedule specifying a point in time at which a circulating vehicle is to be replaced becomes inoperable, whether to operate a second vehicle that substitutes for the first vehicle until a replacement time specified by the schedule, the replacement time being a point in time at which the first vehicle is to be replaced.

An information processing apparatus manages the operation of an alternative vehicle when a vehicle recovers from a failure. The information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to determine, when it is judged that the vehicle is not operational due to failure of the vehicle, to introduce an alternative vehicle to replace the vehicle, and when recovery information indicating that the vehicle has recovered from the failure is acquired, maintain the determination to introduce the alternative vehicle or cancel the introduction of the alternative vehicle and redetermine the recovered vehicle as being operational.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, non-transitory computer readable medium, and vehicle

When a non-operable notification is output from any of a plurality of operating vehicles, an operation schedule creator creates a substitute vehicle introduction operation schedule based on planned stopping times and a target velocity determined by a normal operation schedule, as an operation schedule to be provided, to each of operating vehicles other than a non-operable vehicle which has output the non-operable notification, when the operating vehicle passes an operation schedule updating location for a first time after the non-operable notification is output.

An operation management apparatus includes: a plan generator that generates a travel plane for each of a plurality of vehicles which form a vehicle line and which travel autonomously along a prescribed travel path; a communication device that transmits the travel plan to a corresponding vehicle; and a judging unit that judges necessity of an addition of a vehicle to the vehicle line and an elimination of a vehicle from the vehicle line. When it is judged that the addition of the vehicle is necessary, the plan generator determines a position of addition of a new vehicle in the vehicle line based on at least one of travel information and passenger information transmitted from each of the plurality of vehicles, and generates a travel plan for adding the new vehicle at the position of addition.

Operation management apparatus of vehicle, operation management method, and transportation system

An information processing apparatus encourages passengers to practice distributed boarding to enable smooth operation of vehicles. The information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to acquire information indicating a boarding status of passengers at a stop when it is judged that a preceding vehicle has arrived at the stop, generate notification information to encourage passengers who have not boarded the preceding vehicle to practice distributed boarding onto a subsequent vehicle when it is judged that the boarding status satisfies a predetermined condition based on the acquired information, and provide the generated notification information to the preceding vehicle and/or the stop.

System for analyzing boarding status of passengers at a vehicle stop

An automatic running vehicle executes regular operation control based on an operation schedule provided from an operation management device. The automatic running vehicle includes an automatic running control unit. The automatic running control unit executes retreat control to move to a retreat position on the predetermined route and stop there upon receipt of a retreat instruction from the operation management device or an immediately following overtaking vehicle.

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Toyota, Japan

Hiroshi Higashide