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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2015
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Ryo Okabe, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuyuki Noda, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsuo Shimotani, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiharu Asaga, Tokyo, JP;
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A travel planning device includes: a subject vehicle information acquisition unit that acquires subject vehicle information including a scheduled travel route and a scheduled departure time of a subject vehicle; an other vehicle information acquisition unit that acquires other vehicle information including information by which it is possible to predict scheduled travel routes of a plurality of other vehicles and a scheduled passage time through each point on the scheduled travel routes; and a travel plan calculator that calculates a travel plan of the subject vehicle based on the subject vehicle information and the other vehicle information. The travel plan calculator divides the scheduled travel route of the subject vehicle into manual driving sections and following travel sections, and selects the leading vehicle of each following travel section from among the plurality of other vehicles for each following travel section.