VEHICLE GUIDANCE DEVICE AND VEHICLE GUIDANCE METHOD

• Main Authors: Kishi, Yasuhisa, Kawai, Satoshi, Kasai, Junichi, Fujimoto, Hiroya, Shimodaira, Seiji
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 07.06.2018
• Subjects: PHYSICS; SIGNALLING; TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS

A vehicle guidance device has a stopping vehicle detector configured to detect stopping vehicles failing to pass through a traffic light while a light is green, the traffic light being installed beside a plurality of lanes extending in a same direction, an information acquisition unit configured to acquire a starting characteristic of each detected vehicle, and a simultaneous passage line calculator configured to calculate a simultaneous passage line including a first line and a second line based on the acquired starting characteristics, when a vehicle having a lower starting characteristic than a reference starting characteristic is included in the vehicles stopping on a first lane included in the plurality of lanes, and when a vehicle having a higher starting characteristic than starting characteristics of the vehicles on the first lane is included in the vehicles stopping on a second lane included in the plurality of lanes.