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Technology to facilitate and promote the use of environmentally-friendly transport

  • US 10,356,563 B2
  • Filed: 09/25/2015
  • Issued: 07/16/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A portable processing device, comprising:

  • a journey type determining module operable to determine whether a journey undertaken by a person carrying the portable processing device is an environmentally-friendly journey comprising a journey undertaken in an environmentally-friendly vehicle, a journey undertaken using self-propelled means or a journey undertaken on foot, wherein an environmentally-friendly vehicle comprises a vehicle wherein at least one of;

    (i) its emissions are below an environmental emissions threshold value, and (ii) at least a threshold amount of its energy comes from renewable sources, and wherein the journey type determining module is configured to detect a signal transmitted by an identification device carried in an environmentally-friendly vehicle;

    a journey length determining module operable to determine a length of a said environmentally-friendly journey undertaken by the person carrying the portable processing device, wherein for a journey undertaken in an environmentally-friendly vehicle, the journey length determining module is configured to repeatedly determine whether the journey type determining module has received a signal from a said identification device and to determine a journey length based on a duration over which the journey type determining module has received signals from said identification device; and

    a communication module operable to transmit journey data to record management apparatus defining the length of the environmentally-friendly journey undertaken by the person carrying the portable processing device.

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