Vehicle group management apparatus, vehicle group management method, computer readable medium, and vehicle group display apparatus

A vehicle group display apparatus comprising:

• processing circuitry to:
• receive image data indicating a vehicle group including at least one of other-vehicles, the vehicle group being specified in accordance with a distance between the other-vehicles that are a plurality of other-vehicles moving in line and a movement characteristic of an own-vehicle;
• and
• display the image data received.

A vehicle group management apparatus comprising:

• processing circuitry to:
• manage vehicle information including position information indicating a position of an other-vehicle included in a plurality of other-vehicles moving in line and movement information on a movement of the other-vehicle;
• acquire speed information indicating a speed of an own-vehicle;
• acquire, as a specification indicating static performance of the own-vehicle, acceleration specification information indicating a time period required to reach a target vehicle speed from a current vehicle speed;
• and
• calculate vehicle group information indicating a vehicle group including the other-vehicle by calculating a distance between other-vehicles when a speed of the own-vehicle reaches a same speed as the other-vehicle, the distance being a distance between the other-vehicle and an other-vehicle which moves in line with the other-vehicle, using a distance between the other-vehicles based on the position information, the speed information on the own-vehicle, the acceleration specification information on the own-vehicle, and the movement information on the other-vehicle.

A vehicle group management method comprising:

• managing vehicle information including position information indicating a position of an other-vehicle included in a plurality of other-vehicles moving in line and movement information on a movement of the other-vehicle;
• acquiring speed information indicating a speed of an own-vehicle;
• acquiring, as a specification indicating static performance of the own-vehicle, acceleration specification information indicating a time period required to reach a target vehicle speed from a current vehicle speed;
• and
• calculating vehicle group information indicating a vehicle group including the other-vehicle by calculating a distance between other-vehicles when a speed of the own-vehicle reaches a same speed as the other-vehicle, the distance being a distance between the other-vehicle and an other-vehicle which moves in line with the other-vehicle, using a distance between the other-vehicles based on the position information, the speed information on the own-vehicle, the acceleration specification information on the own-vehicle, and the movement information on the other-vehicle.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a vehicle group management program that causes a computer to execute:

• a first management process to manage vehicle information including position information indicating a position of an other-vehicle included in a plurality of other-vehicles moving in line and movement information on a movement of the other-vehicle;
• a first acquisition process to acquire speed information indicating a speed of an own-vehicle;
• a second acquisition process to acquire, as a specification indicating static performance of the own-vehicle, acceleration specification information indicating a time period required to reach a target vehicle speed from a current vehicle speed;
• and
• a calculation process to calculate vehicle group information indicating a vehicle group including the other-vehicle by calculating a distance between other-vehicles when a speed of the own-vehicle reaches a same speed as the other-vehicle, the distance being a distance between the other-vehicle and an other-vehicle which moves in line with the other-vehicle, using a distance between the other-vehicles based on the position information, the speed information on the own-vehicle, the acceleration specification information on the own-vehicle, and the movement information on the other-vehicle.