Patent ID: 6081756
Filing Date: 2000-06-27
Classification: G05D

Abstract:
A vehicle running management system for managing running states of vehicles on a predetermined lane of a road, the predetermined lane being provided for automatically driven vehicles each of which has a communication function and a running control function, said vehicle running management system comprising:vehicle entrance detecting means for detecting movement of a vehicle from an adjacent lane to the predetermined lane;control information communication means for, when said vehicle entrance detecting means detects the vehicle which has entered the predetermined lane, transmitting control information based on existence of the detected vehicle to an automatically driven vehicle behind said detected vehicle, so that the automatically driven vehicle can perform the running control based on the control information;vehicle type determination means for determining whether the vehicle detected by said vehicle entrance detecting means is an automatically driven type of vehicle;position estimation means for estimating a position of the detected vehicle, after said vehicle type determination means determines that the vehicle detected by said vehicle entrance detecting means is not an automatically driven type of vehicle; andcontrol information deciding means for deciding the control information which should be transmitted to the automatically driven vehicle behind the detected vehicle based on the position of the detected vehicle which are estimated by said position estimation means, so that the automatically driven vehicle receives the control information and can perform the running control based on the control information.