Patent ID: 9272720
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: B61L,G01C

Claim Text:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: an acquiring unit that acquires accident information representing an accident on a transport line in a transport network including a plurality of transport lines, the accident occurring during operation of at least one vehicle, wherein the vehicle is a train including a plurality of cars; a first specifying unit that specifies a terminal location and a moving direction, the terminal location showing a location of a communication terminal that notifies information to a passenger on one of the vehicles running on one of the transport lines, the moving direction being a direction of the communication terminal on the transport line; a determination unit that determines an impact of the accident represented by the accident information acquired by the acquiring unit, to the passenger who is moving from the terminal location specified by the first specifying unit in the moving direction; a transmission unit that transmits the accident information acquired by the acquiring unit and impact information that represents an impact determined by the determination unit for that accident information to the communication terminal, a first storage unit that stores, for each stop where more than two transport lines are passing, in association, a first transport line that is passing a stop, a second transport line that can be transferred to from the first transport line at the stop, and a first car position, which is a position of a car that requires a shortest transfer time in the train on the first transport line that stops at that stop; and a second specifying unit that specifies a second car position, which is a position of the car in which the communication terminal resides in the train that stops at the stop, wherein the determination unit determines that an influence of the accident that has occurred on the second transport line, which is stored in the first storage unit associated with the first transport line and the first car position, is larger on the passenger in a car that is in the second car position, if a difference between the second car position specified by the second specifying unit on the train running on the first transport line and the first car position stored in the first storage unit associated with the first transport line is in a predetermined range, than in a case where the difference is not in the predetermined range.