Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Katsuhito Kito

Yuta Oshiro

Yuko Mizuno

Kazuyuki Kagawa

Misa Ejiri

The present disclosure allows more effective exploitation of a vacant parking space in a parking lot. A controller of a management server that is an information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure performs accepting a utilization request of a parking space from an apparatus of a utilization applicant, providing information on a service that is available besides parking in the parking space to the apparatus of the utilization applicant, the utilization request being accepted by the apparatus, and accepting a response conveying a request to utilize the service from the apparatus of the utilization applicant.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and system

A controller of an information processing apparatus is programmed to obtain a size of a vehicle to be parked in a parking lot, obtain information of a current free space of the parking lot, secure from the current free space of the parking lot a parking space that the obtained size matches; and provide the vehicle with guidance information indicating the secured parking space for driving the vehicle.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method and system

A controller of a server device that is an information processing device according to the present disclosure executes setting a ratio between number of first parking spaces and number of second parking spaces, on the basis of a past actual utilization figure of a parking lot including the first parking spaces with a first time limit and the second parking spaces that allow parking for a longer time period than the first time limit, and controlling provision of the first parking spaces and the second parking spaces at the set ratio.

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Kasugai, Japan

Katsuhito Kito