CONVOY TRAVELING MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND CONVOY TRAVELING MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a merging vehicle to smoothly merge without relying on inter-vehicle communication.SOLUTION: When a length of a convoy 10 is larger than a merging distance 4, regardless of existence of a merging vehicle, a first vehicle 2a in the convoy 10: divides the same into small convoys (a front convoy 11 and a rear convoy 12) having lengths shorter than the merging distance 4; and widens an inter-vehicle distance between the small convoys to leave a merging space therebetween for the merging vehicle. Thus, the merging distance 4 can be prevented from being closed up by the small convoy because the same has the length shorter than the merging distance 4, and the merging space can be kept at least a place between the convoys, in front of the front convoy 11, and behind the rear convoy 12. Then, the merging vehicle can smoothly merge into a main traffic lane 6 by choosing, from among them, the merging space most convenient therefor.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2