US 11,798,410 B2
Traffic flow control system, traffic flow control program, traffic flow control method, and traveling controller
Keiichi Katsuta, Tokyo (JP); Junya Takahashi, Tokyo (JP); Takehito Ogata, Tokyo (JP); Wataru Tanaka, Tokyo (JP); Mariko Mizuochi, Tokyo (JP); and Kentaroh Maki, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to HITACHI, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/636,434
Filed by HITACHI, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed May 15, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/019509
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 18, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/033378, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 25, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-152240 (JP), filed on Aug. 22, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0284809 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. G08G 1/08 (2006.01); G08G 1/09 (2006.01)
CPC G08G 1/08 (2013.01) [G08G 1/091 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A traffic flow control system configured to control a traffic flow of a traffic path by communicating with a traveling controller of a moving body that travels on the traveling path, the traffic flow control system comprising:
a plurality of entering right control units configured to control an entering right for each of a plurality of areas, the plurality of entering right control units configured to each control a token and configured to guide entering of the moving body into the plurality of areas by attaching the entering right to the token and by giving the token to the traveling controller; and
a communication unit configured to perform communication of the entering right and each token, respectively, between the communication unit and the traveling controller,
wherein a first entering right control unit is configured to transmit a first token and a first entering right to a first moving body to enter a first area and receive a return of the first entering right from the first moving body after the first moving body enters the first area by exercising the first entering right into the first area, and
wherein a second entering right control unit is configured to receive the first token from the first moving body and a reservation right for a second area to which the moving body enters next.