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Okude Mariko

Hiroshi Kuroda

Kozo Nakamura

Yoshinori Endo

Toshio Fujiwara

Hideo Hiroshige

Ichiro Hondo

Ke'nichirou Kurata

In a broadcasting type information providing system, a moving body includes a bidirectional communication unit which performs communication with an information providing center an information processing unit which communicates request information necessary for a user via the bidirectional communication unit to the information providing center as well as presents answer information with respect to the request information to the user and a broadcast receiving unit which receives the answer information broadcasted from a broadcasting station and the information providing center generates the answer information with respect to the request information being transmitted from the moving body as well as selects a broadcasting station of which service area covers the position of the moving body depending on the position of the moving body detected either at the side of the moving body or at the side of the information providing center and causes the selected broadcasting station to broadcast the answer information, thereby when transferring information from the information providing center to the moving body an optimum communication means and broadcasting station can be selected.

Broadcasting type information providing system and travel environment information collecting device

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Hitachi, Japan

Okude Mariko