Patent ID: 8121776

Claim:
An incident resolution judgment system in which a traffic information center collects travel information about a vehicle in which an in-vehicle device is mounted and judges in accordance with information supplied from the in-vehicle device whether an incident on a road is resolved, wherein the traffic information center includes an incident resolution condition creation section for creating an incident resolution condition about the encountered incident for the in-vehicle device to judge whether the incident is resolved, in accordance with the travel information transmitted from the vehicle that has passed through the site of the incident, and an incident resolution condition transmission section for transmitting the created incident resolution condition to an in-vehicle device near the site of the incident; wherein the in-vehicle device includes a reception section for receiving the incident resolution condition from the traffic information center, an incident resolution judgment section for judging whether the incident is resolved, in accordance with the received incident resolution condition and the travel information about a vehicle in which the in-vehicle device is mounted, and a transmission section for transmitting incident resolution information to the traffic information center when the incident resolution judgment section has judged that the incident related to the received incident resolution condition is resolved; and wherein the traffic information center judges whether the incident is resolved, in accordance with the incident resolution information received from the in-vehicle device.