PEDESTRIAN GUIDANCE SYSTEM, PEDESTRIAN GUIDANCE METHOD, AND TRAVELING DIRECTION INFORMATION GENERATION PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pedestrian guidance system having a low arrangement cost, capable of guiding a pedestrian by presenting the correct traveling direction along a route to the destination, a pedestrian guidance method and a pedestrian guidance program. SOLUTION: When receiving ID data originated from radio tags 2 arranged at optional intervals capable of receiving the ID data of of one or more radio tags 2 and acquiring destination information inputted by the pedestrian, a portable terminal 3 transmits the newest received ID data, received ID data before one point of time, and the destination information. A location processing device 4 deduces the present traveling direction of the pedestrian carrying the portable terminal 3 by retrieving database based on the information, performs generation/setting of the route to the destination from the present position of the pedestrian, and generates and transmits traveling direction information from the present position to the destination. The portable terminal 3 presents the received traveling direction information to the destination to the pedestrian. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO