| CPC G01C 21/3469 (2013.01) [G01C 21/3415 (2013.01); G01C 21/3697 (2013.01)] | 6 Claims |
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1. A route determination device that determines a route of a vehicle that travels using electric power stored in a power storage device, the vehicle including a power reception device that wirelessly receives electric power from a power transmission device installed in a charging lane while the vehicle travels on the charging lane, the electric power received by the power reception device being stored in the power storage device,
the route determination device comprising:
a communication device that acquires, from a user terminal, a vehicle dispatch request including information indicating a vehicle dispatch location and a destination of the vehicle;
a storage that stores, for each of a plurality of the charging lanes provided at a plurality of routes from a current location of the vehicle to the vehicle dispatch location, an estimated value of power reception efficiency of the power reception device that is achieved when the electric power received by the power reception device from the power transmission device of the charging lane is stored in the power storage device; and
a processor that, when the communication device acquires the vehicle dispatch request, determines a traveling route of the vehicle from the current location via the vehicle dispatch location to the destination in accordance with the vehicle dispatch request, wherein
the processor determines a vehicle dispatch route of the vehicle from the current location to the vehicle dispatch location from among the plurality of routes, such that an amount of power storage in the power storage device at the vehicle dispatch location is larger than an amount of electric power with which the vehicle is capable of traveling from the vehicle dispatch location to the destination,
the processor determines the vehicle dispatch route from among the plurality of routes, such that the vehicle dispatch route includes a route on which the charging lane for which the estimated value is equal to or greater than a threshold efficiency out of the plurality of charging lanes is installed, and
the processor dispatches the vehicle along the determined vehicle dispatch route.
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