VEHICLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND VEHICLE MANAGEMENT METHOD

There is provided a vehicle management system for managing vehicles used by users. The vehicle management system includes: a usage managing unit configured to: accept a user's request for using a vehicle; and manage the vehicles and parking spaces in which the vehicles are parked; an acquisition unit configured to acquire energy information from the vehicles, the energy information indicating a remaining amount of energy used for traveling of the vehicles; a determination unit configured to: compare the remaining amount acquired by the acquisition unit with a remaining amount threshold that represents a shortage of the energy; determine that the vehicle needs supply of the energy when the remaining amount is lower than the remaining amount threshold; and specify the vehicle determined to need supply of the energy as a recovery vehicle; and a command outputting unit configured to output a recovery command for recovering the recovery vehicle from the parking space.