Vehicle control system, resource management device, vehicle control method, and program

A resource management device included in a vehicle control system, comprising:

• a reservation management unit that
• makes communication connection to a traveling management device including a reservation request unit that transmits a reservation request for a block section of a reservation target to a resource management device among a plurality of block sections included in a track traveled by a vehicle based on track information indicating the plurality of block sections constituting the track of the vehicle and a connection relationship between the block sections, and
• records all of block sections of the reservation target indicated by the reservation request and each of connection boundaries between all of the block sections of the reservation target and another block section on an advancing direction of the vehicle transmitting the reservation request in a first reservation management table as a reserved target of the vehicle transmitting the reservation request in a case where each of the block sections of the reservation target indicated by the reservation request is not reserved in the first reservation management table by a vehicle other than the vehicle transmitting the reservation request at a time of reception of the reservation request.

A vehicle control method comprising:

• making communication connection to a traveling management device including a reservation request unit that transmits a reservation request for a block section of a reservation target to a resource management device among a plurality of block sections included in a track traveled by a vehicle based on track information indicating the plurality of block sections constituting the track of the vehicle and a connection relationship between the block sections;
• and
• recording all of block sections of the reservation target indicated by the reservation request and each of connection boundaries between all of the block sections of the reservation target and another block section on an advancing direction of the vehicle transmitting the reservation request in a first reservation management table as a reserved target of the vehicle transmitting the reservation request in a case where each of the block sections of the reservation target indicated by the reservation request is not reserved in the first reservation management table by a vehicle other than the vehicle transmitting the reservation request at a time of reception of the reservation request.

A vehicle control method comprising:

• causing a traveling management device to transmit a reservation request for a block section of a reservation target to a resource management device among a plurality of block sections included in a track traveled by a vehicle based on track information indicating the plurality of block sections constituting the track of the vehicle and a connection relationship between the block sections;
• and
• causing the resource management device to record all of block sections of the reservation target indicated by the reservation request and each of connection boundaries between all of the block sections of the reservation target and another block section on an advancing direction of the vehicle transmitting the reservation request in a first reservation management table as a reserved target of the vehicle transmitting the reservation request in a case where each of the block sections of the reservation target indicated by the reservation request is not reserved in the first reservation management table by a vehicle other than the vehicle transmitting the reservation request at a time of reception of the reservation request.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein a program causing a computer to implement:

• making communication connection to a traveling management device including a reservation request unit that transmits a reservation request for a block section of a reservation target to a resource management device among a plurality of block sections included in a track traveled by a vehicle based on track information indicating the plurality of block sections constituting the track of the vehicle and a connection relationship between the block sections;
• and
• recording all of block sections of the reservation target indicated by the reservation request and each of connection boundaries between all of the block sections of the reservation target and another block section on an advancing direction of the vehicle transmitting the reservation request in a first reservation management table as a reserved target of the vehicle transmitting the reservation request in a case where each of the block sections of the reservation target indicated by the reservation request is not reserved in the first reservation management table by a vehicle other than the vehicle transmitting the reservation request at a time of reception of the reservation request.