Vehicle allocation management apparatus and vehicle allocation management method

A vehicle allocation management apparatus comprising:

• an acquisition unit configured to acquire parameter information on an automatic store that is desired by a user and location information on the user;
• an automatic store extraction unit configured to extract, as at least one candidate automatic store to be allocated to the user, at least one automatic store that has a predetermined positional relationship with the user based on the parameter information and the location information acquired by the acquisition unit;
• and
• an automatic store determination unit configured to allocate, to the user, one of the candidate automatic stores that is selected by the user from among the candidate automatic stores, wherein
• the parameter information includes information on at least one of a genre of the automatic store and a type of the automatic store, and
• the automatic store extraction unit is further configured to determine a predetermined time for each of the genre and the type as the predetermined positional relationship, and extract, as the candidate automatic store, the automatic store that is able to arrive at a place near a current location of the user within the predetermined time.