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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2020
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hideki Fukuhara, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshihiro Nakai, Kobe, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A routine-run-vehicle determination unit determines a route from a departure place to a destination of a following vehicle, and a plurality of routine-run vehicles in charge of a plurality of routine-run areas overlapping the route. For each of the routine-run vehicles, a route determination unit determines a routine-run route on which the following vehicle and another following vehicle that are going to travel in a routine-run area in charge can follow, and determines a portion of the routine-run route overlapping an adjacent routine-run area as a takeover position at which the following vehicle is taken over to the next routine-run vehicle. A reservation management unit transmits routine-run-vehicle reservation data including identification information of the following vehicle, and the routine-run route and the takeover position to each of the routine-run vehicles.