Vehicle

A vehicle configured to support an imaging device and to travel along a rail track, the vehicle comprising:

• one or more travel portions each configured to travel along at least one rail track;
• a travel controller configured to perform an image recognition to determine a shape of a portion of the at least one rail track along a travel direction of the vehicle based on an image captured by the imaging device and to control the one or more travel portions based on a result of the image recognition;
• an information obtaining portion configured to obtain position information of each of a plurality of locations that the one or more travel portions travel past as a result of traveling along the at least one rail track, and to obtain information on an order in which the position information of the plurality of locations is obtained;
• memory configured to store information obtained by the information obtaining portion, and
• map memory configured to store therein basic map information which is information about a shape of the at least one rail track and, in a case where the at least one rail track includes a plurality of rail tracks, how the plurality of rail tracks are connected to one another,
• wherein the information obtaining portion includes a position information reader configured to read position information of a plurality of position displays that are spaced apart from one another along the plurality of rail tracks,
• wherein the information obtaining portion is configured to obtain:
• (a) position information of each of the plurality of position displays that is read by the position information reader;
• and
• (b) connection information about how the plurality of position displays are connected by the plurality of rail tracks, and
• wherein the information obtaining portion is configured to store in the map memory the position information and the connection information that are obtained such that the position information and the connection information that are obtained are associated with the basic map information.