Route searching device
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1. A route searching device for searching a route from a departure place to a destination, comprising:
- means for storing a list containing facilities each of which can be indicated as a stopover or destination on the route to be searched by a user, at least one of the facilities being associated with a predetermined road;
means for accepting a user'"'"'s indication of a facility as the stopover or destination on the route to be searched; and
search means for searching the route from the departure place to the destination in such a manner that when the facility indicated by the user is not associated with a predetermined road in the list, a place on a road in the neighborhood of the facility indicated by the user is set as a place on the route, and when the facility indicated by the user is associated with the predetermined road in the list, a place on the predetermined road in the neighborhood of the facility indicted by the user, is set as a place on the route.
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Abstract
A route along which a user can use facilities set as stopovers is searched; when the user sets facilities relevant to a toll road as a stopover of a route to a destination, only links of toll roads around the facilities are set as target links, and a route passing via nodes of links in the neighborhood of the facilities is searched by a processor.
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1. A route searching device for searching a route from a departure place to a destination, comprising:
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means for storing a list containing facilities each of which can be indicated as a stopover or destination on the route to be searched by a user, at least one of the facilities being associated with a predetermined road;
means for accepting a user'"'"'s indication of a facility as the stopover or destination on the route to be searched; and
search means for searching the route from the departure place to the destination in such a manner that when the facility indicated by the user is not associated with a predetermined road in the list, a place on a road in the neighborhood of the facility indicated by the user is set as a place on the route, and when the facility indicated by the user is associated with the predetermined road in the list, a place on the predetermined road in the neighborhood of the facility indicted by the user, is set as a place on the route.
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2. A route searching device for searching a route from a departure place to a destination, comprising:
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means for storing a list containing facilities each of which can be indicated as a stopover or destination on the route to be searched by a user, and each of which is associated with a type of facility;
means for accepting a user'"'"'s indication of a facility as the stopover or destination on the route to be searched; and
search means for searching the route from the departure place to the destination in such a manner that when a type of the facility indicated by the user in the list is not relevant to a predetermined type of roads, a place on a road in the neighborhood of the facility indicated by the user is set as a place on the route, and when the type of the facility indicated by the user in the list is relevant to the predetermined type of roads, a place on a road of the predetermined type of roads in the neighborhood of the facility indicated by the user is set as a place on the route. - View Dependent Claims (3)
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4. A method of searching a route from a departure place to a destination comprising:
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a step of accepting a user'"'"'s indication of a facility as a stopover or destination on the route to be searched; and
a step of searching the route from the departure place to the destination in such a manner that when a type of the facility indicated by the user in the list is not relevant to the toll roads, a place on a road other than the toll road in the neighborhood of the facility indicated by the user is set as a place on the route, and when the type of the facility indicated by the user in the list is relevant to the toll road, a place on the toll road in the neighborhood of the facility indicated by the user is set as a place on the route.
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5. A storage medium for storing a program which is read out and executed by a computer, wherein said program makes said computer execute a step of accepting a user'"'"'s indication of a facility as a stopover or destination on a route from a departure place to a destination, and a step of searching the route from the departure place to the destination in such a manner that when the type of the facility indicated by the user is not relevant to the toll roads, a place on a road other than the toll road in the neighborhood of the facility indicated by the user is set as a place on the route, and when the type of the facility indicated by the user is relevant to the toll road, a place on the toll road in the neighborhood of the facility indicated by the user is set as a place on the route.
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