Traffic information providing method and system therefor, and payment method for toll road fee
First Claim
1. A traffic-information providing method, comprising the steps of:
- accepting registration from an on-board unit to a center concerning ID information for identifying a vehicle, billing information associated with said ID information, and information about a travel route along which said vehicle is scheduled to drive and which includes a toll road, calculating, at said center, future traffic information based on said travel route registered into said center, and providing said calculated future traffic information via a communications line.
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Abstract
A traffic-information providing method includes steps of accepting registration from a terminal to a center concerning ID information for identifying a vehicle, billing both information associated with the ID information and information about a travel route along which the vehicle is scheduled to drive and which includes a toll road, calculating, at the center, future traffic information based on the travel route registered into the center, and providing the calculated future traffic information via a communications line. The traffic amount is predicted based on the travel route which the user has registered. It then becomes possible to provide the fine-grained traffic information.
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14 Claims
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1. A traffic-information providing method, comprising the steps of:
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accepting registration from an on-board unit to a center concerning ID information for identifying a vehicle, billing information associated with said ID information, and information about a travel route along which said vehicle is scheduled to drive and which includes a toll road, calculating, at said center, future traffic information based on said travel route registered into said center, and providing said calculated future traffic information via a communications line. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A traffic-information providing system, comprising:
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a first memory area for accepting registration from a terminal to a center concerning ID information for identifying a vehicle type, toll payment information associated with said ID information, and information about a travel route along which said vehicle is scheduled to drive and which includes a toll road, and for storing these pieces of information, a calculation area for determining, at said center, future traffic information based on said travel route registered into said center, and a second memory area for storing said determined future traffic information, wherein said future traffic information stored in said second storage unit is provided via a communications line. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A toll-road fee payment method, comprising the steps of:
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registering, from an on-board unit to a center, ID information for identifying a host vehicle, and information about a travel route along which said host vehicle is scheduled to drive and which includes a toll road, said host vehicle mounting thereon a vehicle-mounted ETC equipment into/from which an IC card is to be inserted/extracted, and settling a reduced fee for said toll road with the use of said IC card if said host vehicle has driven exactly along said travel route registered, said IC card being inserted into said vehicle-mounted ETC equipment. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13)
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14. A traffic-information providing method, comprising the steps of:
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accepting registration from a terminal to a center concerning ID information for identifying a vehicle, toll payment information associated with said ID information, and information about a travel route along which said vehicle is scheduled to drive and which includes a toll road, predicting and calculating, at said center, future traffic information based on said travel route registered into said center, providing said predicted traffic information to said vehicle via a communications line, judging whether or not said vehicle is driving in accordance with said predicted traffic information, and making a fee payment in accordance with both of said judgment result and said tall payment information.
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