Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory storage medium

An information processing method in a computer, comprising:

• acquiring a number of carpool passenger users who are users scheduled to carpool in a vehicle that travels to a predetermined place;
• setting a cost needed for potential users who are users different from the carpool passenger users to ride the vehicle, on the basis of the number of carpool passenger users;
• and
• providing information on the cost to the potential users present within a predetermined range from a scheduled path of the vehicle traveling to the predetermined place.

A non-transitory storage medium stored with an information processing program,

• the information processing program for causing a computer to:
• acquire a number of carpool passenger users who are users scheduled to carpool in a vehicle that travels to a predetermined place;
• set a cost needed for potential users who are users different from the carpool passenger users to ride the vehicle, on the basis of the number of carpool passenger users;
• and
• provide information on the cost to the potential users present within a predetermined range from a scheduled path of the vehicle traveling to the predetermined place.