ACCIDENT REDUCTION MEASURE SIMULATION DEVICE AND ACCIDENT REDUCTION MEASURE SIMULATION METHOD

• US 20120143587A1
• Filed: 06/13/2011
• Published: 06/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Minemura, Atsushi
• Application Number:
  US13/390,193
• Publication Number:
  US 20120143587A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 703/21
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/16 Anti-collision systems road vehicle drive control systems for predicting or avoiding probable or impending collision otherwise than by control of a particular sub-unit B60W30/08

Abstract

Disclosed is a simulation apparatus for accident reduction measures which is capable of supporting the determination of measures to be applied. This apparatus (100) is a simulation apparatus for accident reduction measures in order to consider addition of an incidental facility on a road for the purpose of decreasing the number of accidents, and the apparatus includes: search section (160) that searches similar roads having a structure similar to that of a target road for consideration; and search result display section (190) that displays accident-related information on the similar roads searched by search section (160), so as to correspond to incidental facility statuses of the similar roads, wherein search result display section (190) displays the accident-related information to be comparable, relative to a plurality of different incidental facility statuses.

Claims

1. A simulation apparatus for accident reduction measures which is used to consider addition of an incidental facility for the purpose of decreasing the number of accidents on a road, the simulation apparatus for accident reduction measures comprising:

a search section that searches similar roads having a structure similar to the structure of a target road for consideration; and

a display section that displays accident-related information on the similar roads searched by the search section, so as to correspond to incidental facility statuses of the similar roads,

wherein the display section displays the accident-related information to be comparable, relative to a plurality of different incidental facility statuses.

2. The simulation apparatus for accident reduction measures according to claim 1, wherein the road includes an intersection, and the structure includes a shape of the intersection when one of routes of the intersection is used as a reference, the simulation apparatus for accident reduction measures according to claim 1 further comprising:

a target designation section that designates the intersection and a route which are targeted for the consideration; and

a structure interpretation section that interprets the structure of the route designated by the target designation section, in the intersection designated by the target designation section,

wherein;

the search section searches similar intersections having a similar structure to the intersection interpreted by the structure interpretation section, and

the display section displays accident-related information on the similar intersections searched by the search section.

3. The simulation apparatus for accident reduction measures according to claim 2, wherein the display section displays the accident-related information on the similar intersections where the incidental facility is added, in comparison with the incidental facility of the route designated by the target designation section, in the intersection designated by the target designation section.

4. The simulation apparatus for accident reduction measures according to claim 3, wherein the display section displays levels of the numbers of occurred accidents per an accident type, as the accident-related information.

5. The simulation apparatus for accident reduction measures according to claim 4, wherein:

the target designation section further designates the accident type; and

the display section displays levels of the numbers of the occurred accidents belonging to the accident type designated by the target designation section, as the accident-related information.

6. The simulation apparatus for accident reduction measures according to claim 5, further comprising a similarity calculation section that classifies the similar intersections searched by the search section according to structural similarities,

wherein the display section displays the accident-related information so as to correspond to the structural similarities of the similar intersections, relative to a plurality of different similarities.

7. The simulation apparatus for accident reduction measures according to 6, wherein the display section displays the numbers of the occurred accidents belonging to the accident type for each of combinations of facility addition degrees of the incidental facility statuses and the structural similarities.

8. The simulation apparatus for accident reduction measures according to claim 7, wherein the display section disposes and displays the number of the occurred accidents belonging to the accident type, on a two-dimensional area, respective axes of which denote the facility addition degrees and the structural similarities.

9. A simulation method for accident reduction measures which is used to consider addition of an incidental facility for the purpose of decreasing the numbers of accidents on a road, the simulation method for accident reduction measures comprising the steps of:

searching similar roads having a structure similar to a target road for consideration; and

displaying accident-related information on the similar roads which are searched, so as to correspond to incidental facility statuses of the similar roads,

wherein at the step of displaying the accident-related information, the accident-related information are displayed to be comparable, relative to a plurality of different incidental facility statuses.