US 12,111,167 B2
Server device, operation management system, program, vehicle, and operation management method
Yu Nagata, Chofu (JP); Kazutaka Kimura, Mishima (JP); Tomokazu Maya, Nagoya (JP); Tsuyoshi Nishioka, Toyota (JP); Takaharu Tateishi, Nagoya (JP); and Yuki Yamashita, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed on Apr. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/718,322.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-104390 (JP), filed on Jun. 23, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0412760 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01)
CPC G01C 21/3484 (2013.01) [G01C 21/3605 (2013.01); G01C 21/3661 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A server device, comprising:
a communication unit configured to communicate with a plurality of terminal devices and a vehicle; and
a control unit configured to
receive, through the communication unit from the plurality of terminal devices, information indicating a plurality of boarding points at which a user of each of the plurality of terminal devices requested to board the vehicle,
determine a route via a nearby region of each of the plurality of boarding points, wherein
the route satisfies a predetermined condition, and
among the plurality of boarding points, a boarding point that is separated by at least a predetermined distance from other boarding points is excluded from the route,
send, through the communication unit, to the vehicle, operation information for causing the vehicle to travel along the route,
notify the plurality of terminal devices of the route, and
execute a process of giving an incentive to the user who moved from the excluded boarding point to, among the plurality of boarding points, one of boarding points other than the excluded boarding point to board the vehicle.