Traffic safety support system and traffic safety support method

Abstract

This traffic safety support system comprises: a target traffic area recognition unit for acquiring recognition information concerning each of traffic participants; a driving subject information acquisition unit for acquiring driving subject state information correlated to the driving ability of a driving subject of a movement body recognized as a traffic participant; a prediction unit for predicting the future of a plurality of the traffic participants on the basis of the recognition information and the driving subject state information; and a cooperative support information notification unit for making notification of cooperative support information according to a prediction result. The prediction unit is characterized by: recognizing a motorcycle, a four-wheeled vehicle, and a pedestrian groupas first to third traffic participants, respectively; and predicting, on the basis of the recognition information and the driving subject state information, a future behavior of the motorcycle, a future behavior of the four-wheeled vehicleaccording to the future behavior of the motorcycle, and a chain risk of the pedestrian groupin the future according to at least one of the future behaviors of the motorcycleand the four-wheeled vehicle