A method includes of routing an autonomous vehicle includes receiving information obtained from a camera on a second vehicle distinct from the autonomous vehicle. The method includes automatically identifying a road condition using image analysis of the information received from the camera on the second vehicle. The method includes receiving a request to route the autonomous vehicle from a first location to a second location; and in response to the request: generating a cost model for routing the autonomous vehicle, wherein the cost model includes a cost of the road condition automatically identified from the information received from the camera on the second vehicle; selecting a route from the first location to the second location in accordance with the cost model; and routing an autonomous vehicle in accordance with the selected route.

A device determines a parking position for a motor vehicle. The device has a receiver unit for receiving a desired parking position of a first user, an output unit for outputting a parking position for the motor vehicle of the first user, and a processing unit which is designed, on the basis of historical data and current data, to determine the probability that the desired parking position of the first user matches the desired collection position of a second user, and which is designed to determine a parking position for the motor vehicle of the first user on the basis of the probability, the output unit being designed to output the parking position.

A server for providing a pickup service, a system including the same, and a method thereof are provided. The server includes a communication device that performs communication between a vehicle terminal of a vehicle which is traveling according to a route from a starting point to a destination and a user terminal of a user scheduled to ride in the vehicle, a processor that shares a list of pickup positions which are places where the user rides in the vehicle with the vehicle terminal or the user terminal based on a route of the vehicle and a position of the user, and a storage storing data and an algorithm run by the processor.

Provided is an information processing device that includes a planning unit that sets a joining route on the basis of information about at least one of a planned route of a user mobile unit that uses a service or a planned route of a provider mobile unit that provides the service, the joining route being a zone for the user mobile unit and the provider mobile unit to receive and provide the service, and makes a movement plan including at least one of a route plan for the user mobile unit or a route plan for the provider mobile unit based on the joining route. The information processing device further includes a service provision unit that controls provision of the service so that the user mobile unit and the provider mobile unit receive and provide the service while moving on the joining route.

The information processing device includes a communicator 31 for communicating with a vehicle 40 and a mobile device operated by a user, and a controller 33 for controlling the communicator 31, and the controller 33 acquires position information indicating the position of the vehicle 40 and position information indicating the position of the mobile device via the communicator 31, and outputs sound data for identifying the vehicle 40 from the communicator 31 to the mobile device in accordance with the distance between the position of the vehicle 40 and the position of the mobile device.

The present disclosure generally relates to a transportation service, and more particularly, a method of recommending a boarding location for a transportation vehicle requested from a passenger over a data communications network, and a management server used therefor. The recommended boarding location allows the passenger to easily board the transportation vehicle by avoiding a pickup location with an obstacle such as a fence. Street view images of the boarding location are also provided to passengers and drivers to help them to quickly find the boarding location.

Methods and systems for detecting when users deviate from a provided transportation route and for correcting the transportation route in response to such user deviations is presented. In one embodiment, a method is provided including detecting a changed condition for a transportation route between a first location and a second location. The transportation route may include multiple transportation segments. A first transportation segment designating a first modality may be identified, wherein the changed condition decreases a likelihood that vehicles associated with the first modality will be available to service the first transportation segment. In response, a second transportation segment designating a second modality different from the first modality is generated. The first transportation segment is then replaced with the second transportation segment in the transportation route.

A rideshare management system includes: a communicator configured to communicate with a plurality of terminal devices used by a plurality of users; an acquirer configured to acquire use requests from the plurality of users in which a use condition including at least a desired access place is defined; a user arrival situation monitor configured to monitor an arrival situation of the users at a predetermined place derived according to the desired access place; and a service manager configured to search for an available vehicle according to the use condition included in the use requests and determine a vehicle service schedule and configured to determine a user accessing the vehicle at the predetermined place according to the arrival situation of the users monitored by the user arrival situation monitor.

Systems and methods are provided for determining vehicle pick-up location. An exemplary method may comprise obtaining a user's location and a request by the user for transportation to a destination, determining a vehicle to respond to the request, obtaining the determined vehicle's location, and determining a pick-up location for the vehicle to pick up the user based at least on the user's location, the destination's location, and the vehicle's location.

A seat determining apparatus includes a travel route determining unit configured to determine a travel route of a vehicle such that the travel route runs by way of a scheduled boarding point and scheduled alighting point of each of a plurality of users scheduled to ride the vehicle, the scheduled boarding point being a point at which the user is scheduled to get on the vehicle, the scheduled alighting point being a point at which the user is scheduled to get off the vehicle; a boarding and alighting order determining unit configured to determine alighting order, in which the users get off the vehicle, based on the travel route and the scheduled alighting point of each of the users; and a seat determining unit configured to determine a seat according to the alighting order for each of the users when each of the users rides the vehicle.