Behavior management device, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and behavior management method

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to serve as a behavior management device for managing behaviors of a plurality of users, the program causing the computer to-execute processes comprising:

• acquiring, from a desiring user included in the plurality of users, a desired behavior including at least a destination desired to be visited by the desiring user;
• determining a route to the destination;
• predicting whether or not an element included in the route becomes congested;
• determining an alternative plan indicative of at least an alternative element that is an alternative to a congestion element which is the element predicted to become congested in order to avoid congestion of the congestion element;
• deciding a target user to whom the alternative plan is to be proposed out of a plurality of candidate users, the plurality of candidate users being the desiring user and one or more users apart from the desiring user in the plurality of users, the one or more users traveling on a route partly including the congestion element;
• proposing the alternative plan to the target user;
• generating route information based on the proposed alternative plan;
• and
• controlling an autonomous vehicle of the target user based on the generated route information associated with the proposed alternative plan, wherein
• the program causes the computer to further execute a process of assigning values to the plurality of candidate users based on a predetermined criterion, and deciding, as the target user, a user having a highest score obtained by adding up the assigned values.

A behavior management method for managing behaviors of a plurality of users, comprising:

• acquiring, from a desiring user included in the plurality of users, a desired behavior including at least a destination desired to be visited by the desiring user;
• determining a route to the destination;
• predicting whether or not an element included in the route becomes congested;
• determining an alternative plan indicative of at least an alternative element that is an alternative to a congestion element which is the element predicted to become congested in order to avoid congestion of the congestion element;
• deciding a target user to whom the alternative plan is to be proposed out of a plurality of candidate users, the plurality of candidate users being the desiring user and one or more users apart from the desiring user in the plurality of users, the one or more users traveling on a route partly including the congestion element;
• proposing the alternative plan to the target user;
• generating route information based on the proposed alternative plan;
• and
• controlling an autonomous vehicle of the target user based on the generated route information associated with the proposed alternative plan, wherein
• the method further comprises assigning values to the plurality of candidate users based on a predetermined criterion, and deciding, as the target user, a user having a highest score obtained by adding up the assigned values.