Patent ID: 9595189
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: B61L,G08G

Claim:
1. A traffic control device that manages operation of a plurality of vehicles operating in a predetermined traveling pattern, the traffic control device comprising: an adjustment value setting unit that sets an adjustment value including at least one of a station stop time and a departure interval for each vehicle; an electric power calculation unit that calculates power consumption and regenerative power of each vehicle when the vehicles travel using the adjustment value set by the adjustment value setting unit and the traveling pattern on a per time point basis; an evaluation value calculation unit that, on the per time point basis on which the electric power calculation unit calculates the power consumption and the regenerative power, executes a step of calculating a total vehicle power at each time point by subtracting a total of regenerative power from braking vehicles from a total of power consumption from powering vehicles, a step of extracting at least one value of a positive value and a negative value from the total vehicle power at each time point, and a step of calculating an evaluation value using an absolute value of a total of the extracted values; and an optimum value identification unit that identifies the adjustment value producing a smaller evaluation value calculated by the evaluation value calculation unit, wherein, on the per time point basis, the evaluation value calculation unit subtracts, from a total of a maximum value of power consumption from each powering vehicle for a predetermined variation time centering the time point, the total of regenerative power from each braking vehicle for the variation time to calculate the total vehicle power at the time point.