A magnet-guiding switching system includes a lane magnetic field device, a switching controlling module and a route controlling center. As the switching controlling unit informs the magnetic field switching unit to turn on the first switching electromagnets and to turn off the second switching…
A vehicle routing platform may store, in a first data structure, a value at a logical index for each pair of locations of a plurality of pairs of locations. The logical index, for a pair of locations, indicates whether a travel time has been determined. The vehicle routing platform may store, in a…
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for performing multipath search. The method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may calculate a distance between an origin point and a destination point in a group of destination points. In addition, the method may generate a…
An apparatus, including a housing; display; keyboard; at least one microphone; at least one speaker; at least one camera; memory or database which stores travel schedule or itinerary information for a first individual; global positioning device; communication equipment, controller; and transmitter…
A mobile device can obtain wireless network signal strength map data that indicates, for various nearby geographical regions, the wireless network signal strength in each such region. A mobile device can transmit that data to a vehicular navigation system responsible for automatically selecting a…
A data structure of an environment map includes: position information indicating a position in a space; and a state quantity variability of the position. The state quantity variability is correlated with the position information, and the state quantity variability indicates a variation tendency of…
A navigation system (12) comprising a required time calculator (39) for calculating a virtual required time period when a first movable body (11) is assumed to travel a second route (111) different from a first route (112) the first movable body (11) actually travels and arrive at a second point…
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a route-planning device comprising a storage section storing map information, the map information including information identifying a plurality of potential positions, each potential position corresponding to a position at which a location of a…
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: generating a potential route based on a navigation information, a status information, or a combination thereof; determining an update priority based on comparing a first map and the potential route on a second map with a control unit for…
Navigation systems that enhance driver awareness are provided. Information associated with a location of a vehicle may be determined. Based at least in part upon the determined location, awareness information associated with the vehicle may be collected. The awareness information may include at…
A computer-implemented method for the automated driving of a vehicle. The method may include coordinating a planned vehicle path using a path planner application. The path planner application may receive information based on inputs to sensors disposed on the vehicle. The method may include sending…
A navigation route cooperation navigation system and a method of controlling the same are provided. The navigation route cooperation navigation system can secure a visible distance or a communicable range and allow a member vehicle which cannot perform cluster driving to drive according to driving…
A destination setting unit (901) receives setting of a destination by the user when a route from a present position to the destination is guided. A user specifying unit (902) judges whether the user who sets the destination is the user who performs program recording reservation. When the user is…
Examples disclosed herein may relate to transmitting almanac information associated with a subset of wireless transmitters to a mobile station. The subset of wireless transmitters may be determined, at least in part, by determining expected contributions of one or more wireless transmitters to a…
A vehicular information providing apparatus stores a travel history of a vehicle; sets a home area of a user of the vehicle; analyses usage patterns of the vehicle based on the travel history and, based on the analysis, assigns a predetermined use scene of the vehicle to a usage state of the…
A method and apparatus for determining a reachable area based on a road network are provided. The method comprises: acquiring a current location of a user and a road network map; generating a road node map based on the road network map; searching on the road node map for a boundary point extending…
The invention relates to a method for providing predictive target positions (10) and/or predictive routes (11) for reaching a target position (10), in which the current location position is determined and the target position (10) is automatically derived according to probability criteria on the…
When a new departure point and a new destination have been determined, one or more past routes that pass through a departure point area and a destination area are extracted from past routes, a new departure point side section route from the new departure point to an exit point is calculated, a new…
An operation management center (20) divides an operation area in which an on-demand bus (10) operates into a plurality of predetermined sub-areas, and searches for candidate routes on which the on-demand bus (10) travels for each divided sub-area. The center (20) sets one of the retrieved routes as…
In a smartphone (1), a navigation application (122) provides route guidance such that even in a state in which it is impossible to connect to a navigation server (4) configured to provide navigation information including route data representing a route and guidance data representing a guidance…
A route calculation system includes: a route selection probability calculation unit that calculates a route selection probability of each route; a weighting parameter acquisition unit that acquires at least two kinds of weighting parameters representing degrees of influences of at least a route…
A route search system according to one embodiment includes a receiving unit, a first search unit, a determination unit, a second search unit, and an output unit. The receiving unit receives search criteria. The first search unit searches for a first route and time required based on the search…
An object of the present invention is to perform continuous guidance in which guidance on a first guidance point which is a guidance point subsequent to a current position and guidance on a second guidance point which is a subsequent guidance point are continuously performed at one time in a…
A center (100) is provided with an information selecting section (121) for selecting posted pieces of information including a prescribed term from among a plurality of pieces of information posted by users, and a route searching section (140) for searching for a route for a mobile object based on…
A system, method and apparatus for hybrid off-board vehicle navigation are disclosed. In the system, a multi-stop route package is created and sent from a route server to a navigation device. The route package can include a collection of vehicle attributes and corresponding road restrictions for…
A method for managing operation of multi-line transportation includes setting an operation line of a transportation system corresponding to a day type of an operation day, generating an operation pattern of the operation line based on the day type of the operation day, generating a vehicle…
This invention reliably prevents interference between travelling vehicles in a curved section, and makes it possible for travelling vehicles to efficiently travel in a curved section. A ground controller in a travelling vehicle system stores travel permissions for a curved section that are given to…
Techniques of displaying a map view (200) for navigation of a vehicle are described. The map view includes graphical representation of predictive traffic information (220-1, 220-2, 220-3) respectively at an estimated time of passing of a corresponding road segment (210).
The invention relates to an automated guided vehicle (1), a system comprising a computer (10) and an automated guided vehicle (1), and a method for operating an automated guided vehicle (1). The automated guided vehicle (1) is to travel automatically along route segments (41-47) from a starting…
A condition monitoring apparatus includes: a route-control means which sets a set-route and controls equipment so that the equipment moves according to the set-route; an information-collection means which repeatedly acquires information indicating a condition of a first target; an…