Patent ID: 9672743
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G05D,G08G

Claim:
1. A vehicle traffic control system comprising: an onboard control apparatus mounted on each of a plurality of vehicles; a control station which controls the vehicles traveling; a traffic control apparatus which is installed in the control station, which divides a track for the vehicles into a plurality of sections, and which performs a blocking control to assign a non-overlapping travelable section to the vehicles as a permitted travel section; and communication means for allowing communication between the traffic control apparatus and the onboard control apparatus mounted on the vehicles, wherein the onboard control apparatus sets a travel permission request starting distance as a distance longer than a stoppable distance on a basis of current speed of an own vehicle, and the onboard control apparatus transmits repeatedly a travel permission request and current position information on the own vehicle to the traffic control apparatus until a next travel permission is obtained when remaining length of the permitted travel section has become shorter than the travel permission request starting distance in an advancing direction of the own vehicle.