ROUTE SEARCH SYSTEM, ROUTE SEARCH APPARATUS, ROUTE SEARCH METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

• US 20190316920A1
• Filed: 09/22/2017
• Published: 10/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries Limited (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries Limited (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Inventors: MIYAGAWA, Yuta, NISHI, Yasuhiko, TAKAYAMA, Koichi
• Granted Patent: US 11,578,983 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3415 Dynamic re-routing, e.g. recalculating the route when the user deviates from calculated route or after detecting real-time traffic data or accidents
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3423 Multimodal routing, i.e. combining two or more modes of transportation, where the modes can be any of, e.g. driving, walking, cycling, public transport
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/04 Forecasting or optimisation specially adapted for administrative or management purposes, e.g. linear programming or "cutting stock problem" market predictions or forecasting for commercial activities G06Q30/0202
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/40 Business processes related to the transportation industry shipping G06Q10/083
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/005 including pedestrian guidance indicator
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0969 having a display in the form of a map
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/123 indicating the position of vehicles, e.g. scheduled vehicles; Managing passenger vehicles circulating according to a fixed timetable, e.g. buses, trains, tramstransmission of navigation instructions to vehicles G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a route search system including a route search apparatus that communicates with a mobile terminal. The route search apparatus includes: a communication unit that receives, from the mobile terminal, a search request including identification information of a user, and transmits a search result corresponding to the search request to the mobile terminal of the user; and a control unit that executes a search process for a multimodal route that includes at least one of a pedestrian route, a non-public route, and a public route, in accordance with the received search request, and causes the communication unit to transmit the multimodal route as a search result. The control unit causes a passage schedule of the at least one route, and identification information, of traveling means used for traveling along the at least one route, which is associated with the identification information of the user, to be included in a data content of the multimodal route.

Claims

1. A route search system including a route search apparatus configured to communicate with a mobile terminal, the route search apparatus comprising:

a communication unit configured to receive, from the mobile terminal, a search request including identification information of a user, and transmit a search result corresponding to the search request to the mobile terminal of the user; and

a control unit configured to execute a search process for a multimodal route that includes at least one of the following routes, in accordance with the received search request, and cause the communication unit to transmit the multimodal route as a search result, wherein

the control unit causes a passage schedule of the at least one route and identification information of traveling means used for traveling along the at least one route to be included in a data content of the multimodal route, the identification information of the traveling means being associated with the identification information of the user.

Pedestrian route;

a route in which the user travels on foot

Non-public route;

a route in which the user travels by using a non-public vehicle

Public route;

a route in which the user travels by using public transportation.

2. The route search system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal monitors whether or not the mobile terminal is traveling the pedestrian route as scheduled, on the basis of the passage schedule of the pedestrian route.

3. The route search system according to claim 2, wherein

when a result of the monitoring is negative, the mobile terminal transmits, to the route search apparatus, a reroute request that causes the route search apparatus to re-execute the search process.

4. The route search system according to claim 1, further comprising an on-vehicle terminal mounted on the non-public vehicle, wherein

the on-vehicle terminal has previously been notified of a passage schedule of the non-public route in which the non-public vehicle passes, and identification information of the non-public vehicle, and

the on-vehicle terminal monitors whether or not the non-public vehicle is traveling the non-public route as scheduled, on the basis of the passage schedule of the non-public route.

5. The route search system according to claim 4, wherein

when a result of the monitoring is negative, the on-vehicle terminal transmits, to the route search apparatus, a reroute request that causes the route search apparatus to re-execute the search process.

6. The route search system according to claim 1, wherein the control unit monitors whether or not the public transportation is traveling the public route as scheduled, on the basis of the passage schedule of the public route.

7. The route search system according to claim 6, wherein

when a result of the monitoring is negative, the control unit re-executes the search process with respect to identification information of all users corresponding to identification information of the public transportation.

8. The route search system according to claim 1, wherein

the route search apparatus executes monitoring as to whether or not the user is traveling the public route as scheduled, and

the mobile terminal or an on-vehicle terminal of the non-public vehicle executes monitoring as to whether or not the user is traveling the routes other than the public route as scheduled.

9. The route search system according to claim 8, wherein

when the communication unit has received a reroute request from the mobile terminal or the on-vehicle terminal, the control unit executes rerouting that is a process of re-executing the search process with respect to the identification information of the user included in the reroute request or to the identification information of the user corresponding to the identification information of the traveling means.

10. The route search system according to claim 8, wherein

in a case where there is no reroute request from the on-vehicle terminal and there is no completion notification regarding the non-public route from the on-vehicle terminal even when an end-point passing time of the non-public route has passed, the control unit transmits, to the mobile terminal, a confirmation request as to whether or not the on-vehicle terminal has traveled the non-public route as scheduled.

11. A route search apparatus configured to communicate with a mobile terminal, the route search apparatus comprising:

a communication unit configured to receive, from the mobile terminal, a search request including identification information of a user, and transmit a search result corresponding to the search request to the mobile terminal of the user; and

a control unit configured to execute a search process for a multimodal route that includes at least one of the following routes, in accordance with the received search request, and cause the communication unit to transmit the multimodal route as a search result, wherein

the control unit causes a passage schedule of the at least one route and identification information of traveling means used for traveling along the at least one route to be included in a data content of the multimodal route, the identification information of the traveling means being associated with the identification information of the user.

Pedestrian route;

a route in which the user travels on foot

Non-public route;

a route in which the user travels by using a non-public vehicle

Public route;

a route in which the user travels by using public transportation.

12. A route search method executed by a route search apparatus configured to communicate with a mobile terminal, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving, from the mobile terminal, a search request including identification information of a user;

executing a search process for a multimodal route that includes at least one of the following routes, in accordance with the received search request, and transmitting the multimodal route as a search result to the mobile terminal of the user, and

causing a passage schedule of the at least one route and identification information of traveling means used for traveling along the at least one route to be included in a data content of the multimodal route, the identification information of the traveling means being associated with the identification information of the user.

Pedestrian route;

a route in which the user travels on foot

Non-public route;

a route in which the user travels by using a non-public vehicle

Public route;

a route in which the user travels by using public transportation.

13. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a computer program for causing a computer to function as a route search apparatus configured to communicate with a mobile terminal, the program causing the computer to function as:

a communication unit configured to receive, from the mobile terminal, a search request including identification information of a user, and transmit a search result corresponding to the search request to the mobile terminal of the user; and

a control unit configured to execute a search process for a multimodal route that includes at least one of the following routes, in accordance with the received search request, and cause the communication unit to transmit the multimodal route as a search result, wherein

the control unit causes a passage schedule of the at least one route and identification information of traveling means used for traveling along the at least one route to be included in a data content of the multimodal route, the identification information of the traveling means being associated with the identification information of the user.

Pedestrian route;

a route in which the user travels on foot

Non-public route;

a route in which the user travels by using a non-public vehicle

Public route;

a route in which the user travels by using public transportation.