Patent ID: 9696168
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G01C

Claim:
1. A travel time information providing apparatus that provides a user with information regarding a travel time in a transportation network which is constituted by nodes and links and in which travel by train or bus is enabled, the travel time information providing apparatus comprising: a memory configured as a probability distribution storage unit configured to store first probability distribution data which expresses an embarkation waiting time that is a time from when a user arrives at any of the nodes constituting the transportation network until when the user embarks on a train or bus to depart from the node for each location where the waiting time occurs and second probability distribution data which expresses a travel time that is a time necessary for the user to travel in any of the links constituting the transportation network for each location where the travel time occurs; a processor configured to act as: wherein the evaluation value is higher as a median value or a mode value of the probability distribution of the total travel time is smaller, the evaluation value is higher as a variation of the probability distribution of the total travel time is smaller, the evaluation value is higher as a fare is cheaper, and the evaluation value is higher as a number of transfers is smaller.