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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2017
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Kumiko Tadano, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiharu Maeno, Tokyo, JP;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
This transportation operation control device includes: a transportation cost acquisition unit that acquires a transportation cost obtained from a transportation operation for transporting an article to a transportation destination site from a transportation source site among a plurality of sites, the transportation cost being acquired in association with the combination between the transportation source site and the transportation destination site; a correction unit that calculates a corrected cost obtained by correcting the transportation cost on the basis of information indicating the reliability related to the transportation cost; a presence status acquisition unit that acquires presence status information indicating a presence status of the article between the transportation source site and the transportation destination site; and a calculation unit that calculates the importance degree of the transportation operation relative to the combination on the basis of the presence status information and the corrected cost.