Occupancy Declaration/Verification For Passenger Transport Conveyances
First Claim
1. A secure method of verifying occupancy in a passenger transport conveyance, the method comprising the steps of:
- (1) automatically declaring prior to the start of a journey the occupancy in a passenger transport conveyance;
(2) monitoring and assessing the location and movement pattern of passengers arriving prior to the start of the journey, during the journey and immediately after exiting the transport conveyance at the end of the journey; and
(3) identifying suspicious occupancy declarations, based on the monitoring and assessment of step (2).
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a secure method and enabling processes to: (1) through the use of personal nomadic communicators (PNCs) to automatically declare passenger occupancy in transport conveyances including but not limited to road vehicles, aircraft, trains, marine vessels, (2) monitor and assess the pattern of physical movements of passenger PNCs prior to, during, and after their use of such transport conveyances, (3) verify and record passenger occupancy based on such assessments and any suspicious patterns suggesting fraudulent declarations through the improper use and placement of PNCs not belonging to passengers, and (4) transfer occupancy data to management systems which utilise passenger occupancy as a factor in decision making including but not limited to determining occupancy related entitlements to the operators/owners/managers of transport conveyances.
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14 Claims
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1. A secure method of verifying occupancy in a passenger transport conveyance, the method comprising the steps of:
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(1) automatically declaring prior to the start of a journey the occupancy in a passenger transport conveyance; (2) monitoring and assessing the location and movement pattern of passengers arriving prior to the start of the journey, during the journey and immediately after exiting the transport conveyance at the end of the journey; and (3) identifying suspicious occupancy declarations, based on the monitoring and assessment of step (2). - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A system operative to verify occupancy of a passenger transport conveyance, the system comprising:
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(a) a personal nomadic communicator associated with each passenger; (b) a secure embedded computer provided on the transport conveyance, and operable to verify occupancy of the passenger conveyance by the presence of personal nomadic communicators within the passenger conveyance; and (c) an occupancy verification system operable to identify patterns of location and/or movement of personal nomadic communicators, and based on the identified patterns to provide a further verification of occupancy of the passenger transport conveyance based on the identified patterns.
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