Patent ID: 7262696

Claim:
A pick-up bus management system, comprising: at a pick-up bus, means for reading ID information from an ID information storage medium associated with a specific person boarding at a boarding location, which is a current location of the bus; means for mobile communication, which sends and receives data via wireless communication with a prescribed information management location; at a prescribed information management location, a boarding location specific expected-passenger information generating means, which generates boarding location specific expected-passenger information; boarding location specific boarded-passenger information generating means, which generates boarding location boarded-passenger information, based on ID information and boarding location information received from a bus; not-yet-boarded identifying means, which identifies a not-yet-boarded passenger at a current boarding location, based on a comparison of the boarding location specific expected-passenger information and the boarding location specific boarded-passenger information; not-yet-boarded passenger information sending means, which sends to the bus expected-passenger information regarding an identified not-yet-boarded passenger; and at the pick-up bus, a not-yet-boarded passenger notification means, which makes notification of a not-yet-boarded passenger at a current point in time at the current boarding location, based on the not-yet-boarded passenger information received from the information management location.