Method and System for Gathering and Processing Data for Road Use Charging
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Abstract
A method for processing road use data. A first moving vehicle has an encounter with vehicles in motion. An apparatus in the first vehicle generates and stores encounter records for the encounters. Each encounter record includes a location of the first moving vehicle and a location and identifier of a corresponding vehicle in motion, and is stored in the apparatus. A first encounter record for an encounter between the first moving vehicle and a second moving vehicle is sent by the first moving vehicle to a charging system of a road use charging authority having a data store. If the charging system determines that the data store includes a second encounter record of the encounter received from the second moving vehicle, then the second encounter record is not used in a charging process and/or is deleted from the data store; otherwise, the first encounter record is stored in the data store.
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56 Claims
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33. A method for processing road use data by a first apparatus within a first moving vehicle, said method comprising:
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transmitting, by the first apparatus, a set of broadcasts to at least one vehicle in motion located in a vicinity of the first moving vehicle at a time of said transmitting, wherein the set of broadcasts consists of a single broadcast or a time-sequenced series of broadcasts, and wherein each broadcast in the set comprises broadcast data that includes a location and identifier of the first moving vehicle;
receiving, by the first apparatus, a broadcast of broadcast data from each vehicle in motion in conjunction with an encounter between the first moving vehicle and each corresponding vehicle in motion, wherein the broadcast data from each vehicle in motion includes a location and identifier of said each vehicle in motion; and
generating, by the first apparatus, a set of encounter records such that each encounter record pertains to the encounter between the first moving vehicle and the corresponding vehicle in motion, wherein each encounter record includes encounter data that comprises;
(1) the location of the first moving vehicle in the broadcast data of the broadcast transmitted by the first moving vehicle to the corresponding vehicle in motion, and (2) the location and identifier of the corresponding vehicle in motion in the broadcast data of the broadcast received by the first moving vehicle from the corresponding vehicle in motion; and
storing in the first apparatus the set of encounter records, said storing being performed by the first apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46)
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47. A method for processing road use data by a charging system of a road use charging authority, said method comprising:
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receiving, by the charging system, a first encounter record from a first moving vehicle, wherein the first encounter record includes first encounter data pertaining to an encounter that occurred between the first vehicle and a second vehicle while the first and second vehicles were both moving and while the second vehicle was located within a vicinity of the first vehicle, and wherein the first encounter data comprises (1) a location of the first vehicle during the encounter, and (2) a location and identifier of the second vehicle during the encounter;
responsive to said receiving, determining, by the charging system, whether a data store of the charging system comprises a second encounter record previously received by the charging system from the second vehicle such that the second encounter record includes second encounter data pertaining to the encounter;
if said determining determines that the data store comprises the second encounter record, then excluding the second encounter record from being used in a charging process that charges the first and second vehicles for road use with respect to the encounter and/or deleting the second encounter record from the data store, said excluding and/or deleting being performed by the charging system;
if said determining determines that the data store does not comprise the second encounter record, then storing the first encounter record in the data store, said storing being performed by the charging system. - View Dependent Claims (48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56)
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