Patent ID: 8290700

Claim:
A planning apparatus for creating a travel plan of a hybrid vehicle that uses an internal combustion engine and a motor as a driving power source and performs control on how to use the internal combustion engine and the motor according to the travel plan, the apparatus comprising: a plan section storage for specifying and storing each of a plurality of plan sections in the travel plan in a storage medium; a confirmation unit for presenting the plurality of plan sections in the travel plan stored in the storage medium on a display unit and for confirming whether a part of the plan sections less than all of the plan sections presented matches an expected travel route specified by an occupant; a travel route identification unit for identifying the plurality of plan sections in the travel plan as the expected travel route specified by the occupant, when the occupant confirms via the confirmation unit that the part of the plan sections less than all of the plan sections presented matches with the expected travel route; and a travel plan creator for creating the travel plan by employing the expected travel route specified by the occupant as the plurality of plan sections of the travel plan.