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Please predict whether this patent is acceptable.PATENT ABSTRACT: An information acquiring apparatus acquires, when a travel object such as a traveler travels with transportation, passage time at which the travel object passes through each passage point at a departure/arrival facility, transportation specifying information indicating transportation, situation information indicating a situation and so forth. The travel process prediction apparatus stores the acquired information in an associated manner, and obtains a regression equation representing the relationship between items included in the transportation specifying information or situation information and passage time at a specific passage point, elapsed time while the travel object passes through two specific passage points or a result of comparison between the passage time and boarding completion time. The travel process prediction apparatus calculates a predicted value of future passage time, elapsed time or a result of comparison by substituting the content of the expected transportation specifying information or situation information for the regression equation.