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.
Please help me write a proper abstract based on the patent claims. CLAIM: 1.-18. (canceled) 19. A travel process prediction system for predicting a travel process of a travel object traveling with repeatedly operated transportation, comprising: a processor; a memory; a passage time specifying unit for specifying passage time at which a travel object actually passes through one passage point or a plurality of passage points at a departure/arrival facility of transportation; a transportation specifying information acquiring unit for acquiring transportation specifying information which specifies transportation used by the travel object; a situation information acquiring unit for acquiring situation information indicating a situation in which the travel object uses the transportation; a storage unit for storing passage time at one passage point or a plurality of passage points, transportation specifying information and situation information, in an associated manner for each of a plurality of travel objects; an extraction unit for extracting, from the storage unit, a plurality of combinations of passage time concerning a specific passage point and other information associated with the passage time; and a calculation unit for calculating, based on the extracted plurality of combinations, a statistic of the passage time at which travel objects pass through a specific passage point under a specific condition. 20. A travel process prediction system for predicting a travel process of a travel object traveling with repeatedly operated transportation, comprising: a processor; a memory; a passage time specifying unit for specifying passage time at which a travel object actually passes through a plurality of passage points at a departure/arrival facility of transportation; a transportation specifying information acquiring unit for acquiring transportation specifying information which specifies transportation used by the travel object; a situation information acquiring unit for acquiring situation information indicating a situation in which the travel object uses the transportation; a storage unit for storing elapsed time calculated from passage time at a plurality of passage points while the travel object passes through two passage points, transportation specifying information and situation information, in an associated manner for each of a plurality of travel objects; an extraction unit for extracting, from the storage unit, a plurality of combinations of elapsed time concerning two specific passage points and other information associated with the elapsed time; and a calculation unit for calculating, based on the extracted plurality of combinations, a statistic of the elapsed time while travel objects pass through two specific passage points under a specific condition. 21. A travel process prediction system for predicting a travel process of a travel object traveling with repeatedly operated transportation, comprising: a processor; a memory; a passage time specifying unit for specifying passage time at which a travel object actually passes through one passage point or a plurality of passage points at a departure/arrival facility of transportation; a transportation specifying information acquiring unit for acquiring transportation specifying information which specifies transportation used by the travel object; a situation information acquiring unit for acquiring situation information indicating a situation in which the travel object uses the transportation; a boarding completion time specifying unit for specifying boarding completion time at which boarding of travel objects is actually completed for the transportation; a storage unit for storing transportation specifying information, situation information and a result of comparison between boarding completion time and passage time at one passage point or a plurality of passage points, in an associated manner for each of a plurality of travel objects; an extraction unit for extracting, from the storage unit, a plurality of combinations of a result of comparison between passage time concerning a specific passage point and boarding completion time concerning specific transportation and other information associated with the result of comparison; and a calculation unit for calculating, based on the extracted plurality of combinations, a statistic of the results of comparison between passage time concerning a specific passage point and boarding completion time under a specific condition. 22. A travel process prediction apparatus for predicting a travel process of a travel object traveling with repeatedly operated transportation, comprising: a processor; a memory; a storage unit for storing passage time at which a travel object actually passes through one passage point or a plurality of passage points at a departure/arrival facility of transportation, transportation specifying information which specifies transportation used by the travel object, and situation information indicating a situation in which the travel object uses the transportation, in an associated manner for each of a plurality of travel objects; an extraction unit for extracting, from the storage unit, a plurality of combinations of passage time concerning a specific passage point and other information associated with the passage time; and a calculation unit for calculating a statistic of the passage time at which travel objects pass through a specific passage point under a specific condition, based on the extracted plurality of combinations. 23. A travel process prediction apparatus for predicting a travel process of a travel object traveling with repeatedly operated transportation, comprising: a processor; a memory; a storage unit for storing elapsed time while a travel object passes through two passage points of a plurality of passage points at a departure/arrival facility of transportation, transportation specifying information which specifies transportation used by the travel object, and situation information indicating a situation in which the travel object uses the transportation, in an associated manner for each of a plurality of travel objects; an extraction unit for extracting, from the storage unit, a plurality of combinations of elapsed time concerning two specific passage points and other information associated with the elapsed time; and a calculation unit for calculating, based on the extracted plurality of combinations, a statistic of the elapsed time while travel objects pass through two specific passage points under a specific condition. 24. A travel process prediction apparatus for predicting a travel process of a travel object traveling with repeatedly operated transportation, comprising: a processor; a memory; a storage unit for storing transportation specifying information which specifies transportation, situation information indicating a situation in which a travel object uses the transportation, and a result of comparison between passage time at which a travel object actually passes through one passage point or a plurality of passage points at a departure/arrival facility of the transportation and boarding completion time at which boarding of travel objects is actually completed for the transportation, in an associated manner for each of a plurality of travel objects; an extraction unit for extracting, from the storage unit, a plurality of combinations of a result of comparison between boarding completion time concerning specific transportation and passage time concerning a specific passage point, and other information associated with the result of comparison; and a calculation unit for calculating, based on the extracted plurality of combinations, a statistic of the results of comparison between passage time concerning a specific passage point and boarding completion time under a specific condition. 25. A non-transitory recording medium in which a computer program is recorded for making a computer predict a travel process of a travel object traveling with repeatedly operated transportation, said computer program comprising the steps of: making a computer extract a plurality of combinations of passage time concerning a specific passage point and other information associated with the passage time from data including passage time at which a travel object actually passes through one passage point or a plurality of passage points at a departure/arrival facility of transportation, transportation specifying information which specifies transportation used by the travel object and situation information indicating a situation in which the travel object uses the transportation, in an associated manner for each of the travel objects; and making a computer calculate, based on the extracted plurality of combinations, a statistic of the passage time at which travel objects pass through a specific passage point under a specific condition. 26. A non-transitory recording medium in which a computer program is recorded for making a computer predict a travel process of a travel object traveling with repeatedly operated transportation, said computer program comprising the steps of: making a computer extract a plurality of combinations of elapsed time concerning two specific passage points and other information associated with the elapsed time from data including elapsed time while a travel object passes through two passage points of a plurality of passage points at a departure/arrival facility of transportation, transportation specifying information which specifies transportation used by the travel object and situation information indicating a situation in which the travel object uses the transportation, in an associated manner for each of the plurality of travel objects; and making a computer calculate, based on the extracted plurality of combinations, a statistic of elapsed time while the travel object passes through two specific passage points under a specific condition. 27. A non-transitory recording medium in which a computer program is recorded for making a computer predict a travel process of a travel object traveling with repeatedly operated transportation, said computer program comprising the steps of: making a computer extract a plurality of combinations of a result of comparison between passage time concerning a specific passage point and boarding completion time concerning specific transportation, and other information associated with the result of comparison, from data including transportation specifying information which specifies transportation, situation information indicating a situation in which a travel object uses the transportation, and a result of comparison between passage time at which the travel object actually passes through one passage point or a plurality of passage points at a departure/arrival facility of the transportation and boarding completion time at which boarding of travel objects is actually completed for the transportation, in an associated manner for each of the plurality of travel objects; and making a computer calculate, based on the extracted plurality of combinations, a statistic of the results of comparison between passage time concerning a specific passage point and boarding completion time under a specific condition.