Automated driving vehicle, and method for controlling the vehicle

A method of controlling an automated driving vehicle, the method comprising:

• receiving, by a communication device of the vehicle, a traveling plan from an operation management device provided outside the vehicle, the traveling plan specifying departure or arrival times for each of a plurality of stations that are located along a traveling route, and
• allowing, by an automated driving controller of the vehicle, the vehicle to travel autonomously along the traveling route on which the plurality of stations are set so as to fulfill the traveling plan, wherein
• the automated driving controller determines whether the traveling plan has been received from the operation management device by a necessary time, and in a case that the traveling plan has been received from the operation management device by the necessary time, the automated driving controller determines whether the traveling plan is irregular,
• in a case where the traveling plan has not been received from the operation management device by the necessary time or the traveling plan is determined to be irregular, generating, by the automated driving controller, an interim plan based on a standard plan which is stored in a memory of the automated driving controller and which prescribes a standard operation schedule of the vehicle, and allowing the vehicle to travel autonomously along the traveling route so as to fulfill the interim plan, and
• the standard plan prescribes departure or arrival timing for each of the plurality of stations at a time interval or an elapsed time from a point of departing from a specified one of the plurality of stations without specifying a time of day for departure or arrival at each of the plurality of stations.