ROUTE RETRIEVAL DEVICE AND ROUTE RETRIEVAL SYSTEM

• US 20160047664A1
• Filed: 03/11/2014
• Published: 02/18/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: NISHIDA, Junichi
• Application Number:
  US14/779,087
• Publication Number:
  US 20160047664A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/28 with correlation of data from several navigational instruments
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3469 Fuel consumption; Energy use; Emission aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0112 from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0129 for creating historical data or processing based on historical data
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0145 for active traffic flow control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096827 where the route is computed onboard
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096838 where the user preferences are taken into account or the user selects one route out of a plurality

Abstract

A route retrieval device stores fuel efficiency information included in probe information acquired by a plurality of probe vehicles as fuel efficiency information associated with a given segment and a predetermined time unit in the segment which are related to each other. The route retrieval device retrieves a recommended route extending from a departure place to a destination and including the segment on the basis of the associated fuel efficiency information.

Claims

1. A route retrieval device, comprising:

a storage portion configured to store fuel efficiency information of a probe vehicle having passed through a segment in each predetermined time within the segment, the fuel efficiency information associated with a plurality of predetermined segments for each of the plurality of predetermined segments; and

a main control portion configured to retrieve a recommended route extending from a departure place to a destination on the basis of fuel efficiency change of each probe vehicle having passed through the segment, the fuel efficiency change determined by the fuel efficiency information in each predetermined time, the recommended route including the segment included in the plurality of predetermined segments.

2. The route retrieval device according to claim 1, wherein

the fuel efficiency information in each predetermined time is an average fuel efficiency in each predetermined time within the segment, and

the main control portion calculates, for each of the probe vehicles having passed through the segment, a standard deviation of the average fuel efficiency in each predetermined time within the segment and retrieves the recommended route on the basis of the standard deviation.

3. The route retrieval device according to claim 2, wherein

the main control portion calculates mean values of the standard deviations of the plurality of probe vehicles that have each moved across the segment in a range of a predetermined time and retrieves the recommended route on the basis of the mean values of the standard deviations.

4. The route retrieval device according to claim 3, wherein

the main control portion compares, with regard to the respective segments included in a plurality of routes each extending from the departure place to the destination, the mean values of the standard deviations to each other and designates the route including the segment having the minimum mean value of the standard deviations as the recommended route.

5. The route retrieval device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a communication portion configured to communicate with an information center that collects a probe information from the plurality of probe vehicles, wherein

the main control portion acquires the probe information from the information center via the communication portion.

6. A route retrieval system, comprising:

an information center including a center control portion including the route retrieval device according to claim 1; and

an information processing terminal, wherein

the information processing terminal transmits, to the information center, a request for route information including a departure place and a destination each specified by a user, and

the information center uses the route retrieval device to retrieve a recommended route extending from the departure place to the destination on the basis of the request for the route information.

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

the information processing terminal is a terminal mounted in a vehicle.