Traffic control device

A traffic control device comprising a processor configured to:

• acquire images of license plates of individual vehicles captured by a camera;
• identify the individual vehicles by the images of the license plates;
• acquire, for the individual vehicles, pieces of vehicle information indicating safety-related functions on the identified vehicles from a database;
• select, based on the acquired pieces of vehicle information, a vehicle on which a restriction is to be imposed about entry into a specific road from among the identified vehicles;
• and
• send restriction information, including a type of the restriction to be imposed, to a roadside device or a mobile terminal of a user of the selected vehicle, to notify the user of the type of the restriction information.