Traffic safety support system and traffic safety support method

A traffic safety support system, comprising:

• one or more computers configured to:
• recognize traffic participants as persons or moving bodies in a target traffic area and acquire recognition information regarding each traffic participant;
• acquire state information correlated with driving capability of driving subjects of the moving bodies recognized as the traffic participants;
• determine a plurality of prediction targets from among a plurality of recognized traffic participants, and predict futures of the prediction targets on a basis of the recognition information and the state information;
• and
• notify at least one selected from the prediction targets of support information on the basis of a prediction result for the futures,
• wherein the computers are further configured to,
• in a case where first, second and third traffic participants that are the prediction targets, respectively, are first and second moving bodies and a pedestrian in the target traffic area, and state information of at least one selected from the first and second moving body is acquired, predict a future behavior of the first moving body, a future behavior of the second moving body in accordance with the future behavior of the first moving body, and a risk in the future of the pedestrian in accordance with the future behavior of at least one selected from the first and second moving bodies, by performing simulation on a virtual space that simulates the target traffic area on the basis of the recognition information and the state information, and
• notify a driver of the first moving body or the pedestrian of the support information by transmitting the support information to a communication interface of the first moving body or the pedestrian at a point in time when an occurrence of a risk in the future of the pedestrian is predicted.

A traffic safety support method of supporting safety of traffic participants using one or more computers, the traffic safety support method comprising:

• a step of recognizing traffic participants as persons or moving bodies in a target traffic area and acquiring recognition information regarding each traffic participant;
• a step of acquiring state information correlated with driving capability of driving subjects of the moving bodies recognized as the traffic participants;
• a step of predicting futures of a plurality of prediction targets determined among a plurality of recognized traffic participants on a basis of the recognition information and the state information;
• and
• a step of notifying at least one selected from a plurality of the prediction targets of support information on the basis of prediction results for the prediction targets,
• wherein in the step of predicting the futures of the prediction targets,
• in a case where first, second and third traffic participants that are the prediction targets, respectively, are first, second, and third moving bodies in the target traffic area, and state information of at least one selected from the first and second moving body is acquired,
• a future behavior of the first moving body, a future behavior of the second moving body in accordance with the future behavior of the first moving body, and a risk in the future of the third moving body in accordance with the future behavior of at least one selected from the first and second moving bodies are predicted by performing simulation on a virtual space that simulates the target traffic area on the basis of the recognition information and the state information, and
• wherein in the step of notifying the support information, the support information is notified to a driver of the first moving body or the third moving body by transmitting the support information to a communication interface of the first moving body or the third moving body at a point when an occurrence of the risk in the future of the third moving body is predicted.