Operation management apparatus, operation management method, and nontransitory computer recording medium

Abstract

An operation management apparatus configured to manage the operation of a plurality of vehicles capable of autonomous driving includes a communication part configured to be able to communicate with the vehicles and a processing part. The processing part is configured to detect the presence of any abnormal vehicle exhibiting abnormal behavior from among the plurality of vehicles and, if detecting the presence of an abnormal vehicle, to transmit a stop signal to the vehicles whose operation is being managed for ordering them to stop when receiving from the abnormal vehicle an abnormal communication incidence signal informing it that there has been abnormal communication different from the usual communications to the abnormal vehicle and to transmit the stop signal to only the abnormal vehicle when not receiving from the abnormal vehicle the abnormal communication incidence signal.