Patent ID: 7054744

Claim:
A route provision apparatus comprising: a position acquisition unit configured to obtain current positioning data including information of a current position of a mobile object; veering detecting unit configured to employ the current positioning data to detect a veering state in which the mobile object has veered from a determined travel route, wherein the determined travel route has a destination; and a travel route determination unit configured to select a route determination condition from among a plurality of route determination conditions based on the veering state, and to determine a new travel route based on the selected route determination condition, when the veering detecting unit detects the veering of the mobile object, wherein the plurality of route determination conditions include: a return route search condition for determining the new travel route from the current position to a specific point along the determined travel route; a first revised route search condition for determining the new travel route from the current position to the destination; and a second revised route search condition for determining the new travel route from the current position to the destination.