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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2020
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Kazuhiro Umeda, Nissin, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A transport operation control apparatus that controls transport operation of a plurality of vehicles traveling a circuit in a single direction along a predetermined path while repeating stopping at each stop on the path executes a step of selecting any vehicle among the plurality of vehicles as a vehicle to return to a depot, and a step of transmitting to the selected vehicle an instruction requesting the selected vehicle to restrict boarding, after the selected vehicle passes a stop at which the selected vehicle stops first subsequently to passing a starting point that is an exit of the depot and before the selected vehicle arrives at a next stop.