TAXI SHARING MANAGEMENT PROGRAM AND TAXI SHARING MANAGEMENT METHOD

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a customer to designate a place where the customer will get off a taxi without reducing the opportunity to share the taxi with other persons, thereby improving the convenience of the taxi when sharing thereof. SOLUTION: The taxi sharing management program is characterized in that, in the case where the difference in direction between a destination direction of a first customer who desires to share a taxi with other persons, specified based on destination position information and current position information indicating a destination position and a current position of the first customer in terms of latitude and longitude and a destination direction of a second customer who has already ridden on a taxi, specified based on destination position information and current position information indicating a destination position and a current position of the second customer in terms of latitude and longitude is less than or equal to a threshold value, the processing of defining the vehicle on which the second customer has already ridden as a candidate for a vehicle to be shared is executed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI