Operation management device, operation management method, vehicle, vehicular traffic system, and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9744981-B2
Application number	US-201414761519-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 30, 2014
Priority date	May 30, 2013
Publication date	Aug 29, 2017
Grant date	Aug 29, 2017

Abstract

An operation management device that manages the operation of a plurality of vehicles is provided with: a vehicle position acquisition unit that acquires the positions of the plurality of vehicles; an interval adjustment unit that, on the basis of congestion information, identifies a station that is a reference for increasing the density of the plurality of vehicles that are present and sets a standby time at each station that is behind the station that is a reference, the standby time being for the plurality of vehicles that stops at the stations behind the station; and a departure determination unit that adjusts the departure times of the plurality of vehicles from each of the stations behind the station on the basis of the standby times.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An operation management device that manages an operation of a plurality of vehicles traveling along a track, the operation management device comprising:
a vehicle position acquisition unit that acquires positions of the plurality of vehicles present on the track;
a spacing adjustment unit that specifies a reference station that is a reference for increasing frequency of arrival of the plurality of vehicles on the basis of predetermined congestion information indicating information from which occurrence of increasing in passengers at each station can be predicted, and sets a waiting time indicating a stoppage time of the plurality of vehicles at each preceding station of the reference station; and
a departure determination unit that adjusts a departure time at the each preceding station, of the plurality of vehicles on the basis of the waiting time,
wherein the spacing adjustment unit sets the waiting time at the each preceding station being less than the waiting time of a respective subsequent station of the each preceding station.

2. The operation management device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the spacing adjustment unit sets the waiting time on the basis of the number of passengers which is estimated at the reference station.

3. The operation management device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the spacing adjustment unit sets the waiting time so that a congestion occurrence time estimated on the basis of the congestion information matches a time at which density of the presence of the vehicles increases.

4. The operation management device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the spacing adjustment unit acquires, as the congestion information, one or more of prior passenger attracting information for a scheduled passenger attracting event, detection information acquired from detection means installed in a passage from a passenger attracting place to a station and detecting the number and a flow of passengers who use the passage, and information indicating a scheduled arrival time and a scheduled number of arrival passengers regarding another traffic network.

5. A vehicular traffic system comprising:
the operation management device according to claim 1 ; and
a passenger information system that receives identification information, position information, and path information of a predetermined target vehicle from the operation management device, calculates a scheduled arrival time for each station of the target vehicle, and displays the calculated scheduled arrival, time on a display screen installed in each station.

6. A vehicle that travels along a track, the vehicle comprising:
a vehicle position acquisition unit that acquires a position of the own vehicle on the track;
a spacing adjustment unit that specifies a reference station that is a reference for increasing frequency of arrival of a plurality of vehicles traveling on the track on the basis of predetermined congestion information indicating information from which occurrence of increasing in passengers at each station can be predicted, and sets a waiting time indicating a stoppage time of the plurality of vehicles at each preceding station of the reference station; and
a departure determination unit that adjusts a departure time at the each preceding station, of the own vehicle on the basis of the waiting time,
wherein the spacing adjustment unit sets the waiting time at the each preceding station being less than the waiting time of a respective subsequent station of the each preceding station.

7. An operation management method for managing an operation of a plurality of vehicles traveling along a track, the operation method comprising steps of:
acquiring positions of the plurality of vehicles present on the track;
specifying a reference station that is a reference for increasing frequency of arrival of the plurality of vehicles on the basis of predetermined congestion information indicating information from which occurrence of increasing in passengers at each station can be predicted, and setting a waiting time indicating a stoppage time of the plurality of vehicles at each preceding station of the reference station; and
adjusting a departure time at the each preceding station, of the plurality of vehicles on the basis of the waiting time,
wherein in the step of setting the waiting time, setting the waiting time at the each preceding station being less than the waiting time of a respective subsequent station of the each preceding station.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program that causes a computer of an operation management device that manages an operation of a plurality of vehicles traveling along a track to function as:
vehicle position acquisition means for acquiring positions of the plurality of vehicles present on the track;
spacing adjustment means for specifying a reference station that is a reference for increasing frequency of arrival of the plurality of vehicles on the basis of predetermined congestion information indicating information from which occurrence of increasing in passengers at each station can be predicted, and setting a waiting time indicating a stoppage time of the plurality of vehicles at each preceding station of the reference station; and
departure determination means for adjusting a departure time at the each preceding station, of the plurality of vehicles on the basis of the waiting time,
wherein the spacing adjustment means set the waiting time at the each preceding station being less than the waiting time of a respective subsequent station of the each preceding station.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Niinomi Toshihiko
• Takao Kenji
• Yanai Noritaka
• Suzuki Yasuyuki
• Miyajima Yutaka

Classifications

• B61L27/0077

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B61L27/0027

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B61L27/0016 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B61L27/16 Primary

  Trackside optimisation of vehicle or train operation · CPC title

• B61L27/12 Primary

  Preparing schedules · CPC title