Comprehensive traffic control system

• US 20150243165A1
• Filed: 02/20/2015
• Published: 08/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Elsheemy, Mohamed Roshdy
• Original Assignee: Elsheemy, Mohamed Roshdy
• Inventors: Elsheemy, Mohamed Roshdy
• Granted Patent: US 10,121,370 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/00 Fittings or systems for preventing or indicating unauthorised use or theft of vehicles locks for vehicles E05B77/00-E05B85/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0202 Child monitoring systems using a transmitter-receiver system carried by the parent and the child
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/005 including pedestrian guidance indicator
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0112 from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0133 for classifying traffic situation
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0141 for traffic information dissemination
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/017 identifying vehicles G08G1/015, G08G1/054 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/08 according to detected number or speed of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/087 Override of traffic control, e.g. by signal transmitted by an emergency vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/09623 Systems involving the acquisition of information from passive traffic signs by means mounted on the vehicle G08G1/0967 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/09626 where the origin of the information is within the own vehicle, e.g. a local storage device, digital map
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0965 responding to signals from another vehicle, e.g. emergency vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096758 where no selection takes place on the transmitted or the received information
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is a central station

Abstract

The present invention provides a system that utilizes radio signals, cellular network and GPS technologies to provide a multi task system that deals with a variety of traffic related aspects such as intersection design systems, in-car traffic light systems, in-car traffic light system app for both drivers and pedestrians, roadside assistance and safety alert systems, high speed chase systems, roadway radar systems, law enforcement safety systems, emergency vehicles preemption systems, vehicle location logging systems, security and crime-fighting systems, missing person search systems and children in vehicles safety systems. The system consists of a number of electronic units, each one of these units perform a number of programmed functions. Examples of these units are: Police Vehicle Unit, Emergency Vehicle Unit, Vehicle Unit and Roadway Intersection Unit.

Claims

1. A comprehensive traffic control system comprising;

a police vehicle unit to communicate with a vehicle unit;

an emergency vehicle unit to communicate with an intersection unit to request a priority safe passage at said intersection;

a vehicle unit to communicate with a police vehicle unit to respond to a control command transmitted by said police vehicle unit;

an intersection unit at each intersection for preemption and control of traffic signals to communicate with an emergency vehicle unit;

a pedestrians unit to receive a radio signal combined with real-time from the intersection unit to activate a (walk/don'"'"'t walk) fixed time cycle, and to activate the warning LEDs signal during the preemption process;

a spot logging unit to communicate with a vehicle unit to collect a vehicle identification data from each vehicle comes to a stop nearby a spot logging unit at real-time status, wherein the collected data are used for monitoring and security purposes;

a traffic logging unit to communicate with a vehicle unit to collect a vehicle identification data from each vehicle passes by a traffic logging unit at real-time status, wherein the collected data are used for intersection design purposes;

communications means for transmitting the control command signals to a vehicle unit and receiving data from said vehicle unit.

2. The comprehensive traffic control system of claim 1, wherein the police vehicle unit comprising;

a long range radio frequency transceiver module and a short range radio frequency transceiver module;

a cellular-network circuit board;

an antenna;

a thermal module;

a GPS receiver module;

a liquid crystal display (LCD) unit;

a control operating system which is responsible for all the control commands needed to manipulate the vehicle unit.

3. The comprehensive traffic control system of claim 2, wherein the cellular-network circuit board is used for the communication between the police vehicle unit and the vehicle unit, wherein the police vehicle unit transmits the required cell-phone codes to enable the vehicle unit to connect temporarily to the cellular-network;

the said circuit board runs the entire system of the police vehicle unit.

4. The comprehensive traffic control system of claim 2, wherein the cell-phone codes include the SIM card codes, wherein each police vehicle unit is assigned a number of sets of “

Cell-phone Codes”

to selectively transmit the said codes along with a local dispatch center phone number to a target vehicle, wherein the said dispatch center is tracking the location of the said target vehicle, wherein the said target vehicle can receive control commands;

wherein the said target vehicle periodically sends its location data, wherein a police vehicle can make a cellphone call with the said target vehicle.

5. The comprehensive traffic control system of claim 2, wherein the GPS receiver module is used for determining location, speed, heading and date and time at real-time status.

6. The comprehensive traffic control system of claim 2, wherein the long range radio frequency transceiver module and the short range radio frequency transceiver module are used to transmit control command signals to the vehicle unit and to receive response signals from the said vehicle unit.

7. The comprehensive traffic control system of claim 2, wherein the thermal module is used to determine the temperature inside a vehicle.

8. The comprehensive traffic control system of claim 2, wherein the liquid crystal display (LCD) unit is a touch screen terminal display to display data transmitted by the vehicle unit, wherein this data include the vehicle identification number, location, speed, heading and a RFID active tag identification number;

the said LCD display is also used to display the vehicles class category, wherein each category contains vehicles whose share similar size and body style;

the said LCD display is used to display alert and confirmation text messages transmitted by the intersection unit;

the said LCD display is also used to display help request alert message transmitted by the vehicle unit.

9. The comprehensive traffic control system of claim 2, wherein the LCD unit is used to display pictures of each vehicle model wherein the said pictures programmed in the police vehicle unit as vehicle model pictures application.

10. The comprehensive traffic control system of claim 2, wherein the LCD unit is connected to the police vehicle unit through a Universal Serial Bus (USB) cable and comprises a number of LED indicators, a microphone, a speaker, a camera and a number of buttons.

11. The comprehensive traffic control system of claim 10, wherein a number of LED indicators are used for the in-car traffic light system and as alerting and warning indicators.

12. The comprehensive traffic control system of claim 10, wherein a number of buttons include one button for turning on/off the preemption system, by pressing on this button the police vehicle unit transmits the preemption codes, another button to send the right-turning preemption request, another button to send the left-turning preemption request over the long range frequency, another button to turn on/off the in-car traffic light system and another button to turn on/off the LCD unit.

13. The comprehensive traffic control system of claim 10, wherein the microphone and the speaker are used for communication with the vehicle unit;

wherein the microphone and the speaker are also used for voice recognition application to input and activate the control commands.

14. The comprehensive traffic control system of claim 2, wherein the control operating system comprising;

the control commands;

the vehicles model picture application, wherein, the VIN codes are decoded to vehicle model, type and class category, wherein each model represented by at least one rear view and one front view picture;

the GPS digital map application, wherein the roadway intersection legs are defined as leg segments;

the fixed time traffic light cycle application, wherein all types of leg segments are represented by a respective timing cycle.

15. The comprehensive traffic control system of claim 14, wherein the control commands include a log command to log the VIN codes of the target vehicles into the police unit, a traffic log command to log the VIN codes of the target vehicles into the traffic logging unit, a spot log command to log the VIN codes of the target vehicles into the spot logging unit, a radar command to log the VIN codes and speed reports of the vehicles whose speed over a selected reference speed, a clone command is used to allow the vehicles'"'"' units to periodically re-transmit any specific command “

target command”

transmitted by the police unit, via the long range frequency, wherein the said the target command includes “

VIN report command” and

“

RFID tag report command”

, a connect command is used to connect the target vehicle to the cellular network, a VIN report command is used to allow the target vehicle to connect to the cellular network and send (location report), wherein the said location report contains the VIN code of the vehicle and real-time location of it, an RFID tag command is used to allow the vehicles'"'"' units to send a report about a particular tag number, a flash command is used to flash the head and/or tail flashers of the target vehicle, a stop command is used to slow down the target vehicle then stop it by disturbing the fuel or the electric system of the target vehicle, an alert command is used to send an alert or warning text to the target vehicles, a release command is used to release the target vehicle unit from the control commands of the police vehicle unit or the dispatch center, preemption codes are used to request priority passage at an intersection wherein the emergency vehicle unit transmits the said codes to the intersection unit, activating/deactivating command is used to allow the intersection unit to use the fixed time traffic light cycles at predetermined time.

16. The comprehensive traffic control system of claim 14, wherein the leg segment could be a section of a road between two consecutive road-intersections;

the vehicle unit determines the exact leg segment by matching and comparing the GPS coordinates to the data from the GPS digital map;

wherein the GPS digital map uses special codes similar to the zip codes to identify different cities.

17. The comprehensive traffic control system of claim 14, wherein the fixed time traffic light cycle application comprising;

a fixed time traffic light cycle for each leg segment for each direction, wherein the said fixed time light cycle mimics the average time of the actuated traffic light cycle, the said fixed time traffic light cycle application divides the day into three time-portions, wherein one portion represents the high traffic hours, a second portion represents the medium traffic hours, and a third portion represents the low traffic hours;

all types of leg segments are represented by the appropriate timing cycle for each time-portion.

18. The comprehensive traffic control system of claim 1, wherein the vehicle unit comprising;

a long range radio frequency transceiver module and a short range radio frequency transceiver module;

a cellular-network circuit board;

an antenna;

a thermal module;

a GPS receiver module;

a liquid crystal display (LCD);

the electronic components of the vehicle unit, the emergency vehicle unit and the police vehicle unit are similar.

19. The comprehensive traffic control system of claim 18, wherein the (LCD) unit is a terminal display to display instructions and alert/warning text messages transmitted by the police vehicle unit;

the said display is also used to display alert/warning text messages sent by a local dispatch center;

the said display is also used to display alert/warning text messages sent by the intersection unit;

the said display is used to display alert text messages sent by the traffic logging unit.

20. The comprehensive traffic control system of claim 18, wherein the (LCD) unit comprising;

a number of LED indicators to be used for the in-car traffic light system and as alerting and warning indicators;

a number of buttons, wherein one button to turn on/off the in-car traffic light system, another button to turn on/off the in-car traffic (stop signs and the other traffic relevant alert messages), and another button to send help request signal.

21. The comprehensive traffic control system of claim 1, wherein the emergency vehicle unit comprising a liquid crystal display (LCD) unit comprising a number of buttons include one button for turning on/off the preemption system by pressing on this button, the emergency vehicle unit transmits the preemption codes, another button to send the right-turning preemption request, another button to send the left-turning preemption request over the long range frequency and another button to turn on/off the LCD unit.

22. The comprehensive traffic control system of claim 21, wherein the (LCD) unit is used to display alert/warning text messages sent by the intersection unit.

23. The comprehensive traffic control system of claim 1, wherein the intersection unit at each intersection for preemption and control of traffic signals to communicate with an emergency vehicle unit comprising;

a long range radio frequency transceiver module to communicate with the emergency vehicle unit;

a short range transmitter to alert the non emergency vehicles in close proximity to the intersection and to trigger the pedestrians units;

a circuit board comprises a microprocessor and memory chips, wherein said memory stores all the preemption codes and stores the fixed time (for a single intersection) traffic light cycles and stores the (activating/deactivating) codes;

a GPS receiver module to synchronize the said intersection unit via Global Positioning System (GPS) timing signals;

a rechargeable backup battery;

each intersection unit has an identification number.

24. The comprehensive traffic control system of claim 1, wherein the pedestrians unit receives a radio signal combined with real-time from the intersection unit to activate a (walk/don'"'"'t walk) fixed time cycle and to activate the warning LEDs signal during the preemption process;

the said pedestrians unit comprises;

a receiver module;

a memory chip to store the (walk/don'"'"'t walk) fixed time cycle and the intersection unit ID;

a number of LED clusters for the walk/don'"'"'t walk and warning signal;

a rechargeable backup battery to be used during a power outage at the intersection.

25. The comprehensive traffic control system of claim 1, wherein the spot logging unit to communicate with a vehicle unit to collect its identification data when it comes to a near stop nearby the said spot logging unit at real-time status, wherein the collected data are used for monitoring and security purposes;

the said spot logging unit comprises a short range radio frequency transceiver module to communicate with the vehicle unit;

a memory to store the data transmitted by the vehicle unit.

26. The comprehensive traffic control system of claim 1, wherein the traffic logging unit to communicate with a vehicle unit to collect its identification data when it passes by the said traffic logging unit at real-time status, wherein the collected data are used for intersection design purposes;

the said traffic logging unit comprises a short range radio frequency transceiver module to communicate with the vehicle unit;

a memory to store the data transmitted by the vehicle unit.

27. The comprehensive traffic control system of claim 1, wherein the communications means for connecting a vehicle unit to the network and for transmitting the control command signals to said vehicle unit and receiving data from said vehicle unit, wherein the said communications means include a cellular-network, cellphone codes, short and long range radio signals.

28. The comprehensive traffic control system of claim 18, wherein the vehicle unit is configured in a manner to disturb the vehicle'"'"'s engine control unit (ECU) or its electric system when the said vehicle unit is being removed or tampered with.

30. A system for in-car traffic light comprising;

a GPS receiver module as a component of the vehicle unit to determine location, speed, heading and date and time at real-time status;

a database of GPS track points as a component of digital map application in which the roadway intersection legs are defined as leg segments;

as of claim 16, a fixed time traffic light cycle application in which the fixed time light cycle mimics the average time of the actuated traffic light cycle for each leg segment for each direction;

as of claim 19, wherein the (LCD) unit comprising;

a number of LED indicators to be used for the in-car traffic light system, wherein a green LED indicator for proceeding at an intersection, a yellow LED indicator to prepare to stop short of the intersection, a red LED indicator for a complete stop at an intersection, a green right-turning arrow LED indicator for right turning and a green left-turning arrow LED indicator for left turning;

as of claim 19, wherein one button to turn on/off the in-car traffic light system.

31. The system for in-car traffic light of claim 30, wherein the vehicle unit determines the leg segment by matching and comparing the GPS'"'"'s location and direction to the data from the GPS digital map, wherein the leg segment along with the direction will trigger the appropriate leg cycle to illuminate the corresponding LED indicator;

wherein the LED indicators will go blank for 2 seconds before the start of a new light cycle.

32. A method for roadside assistance, as of claim 20, wherein the (LCD) unit comprising;

a button to send help request signal, wherein the vehicle unit periodically transmits the help request signal over the long range frequency;

wherein the police vehicle unit receives the help request signal and the “

help request”

alert text message appears on the display of the police vehicle unit along with flashing the yellow LED indicator;

wherein the location of the vehicle that sent the help request is displayed on the tracking map.

65. A system for security and crime-fighting involving vehicles, by identifying the suspect vehicles whose may be used in crimes, comprising;

a spot logging unit of claim 26;

wherein the vehicle unit will transmit a log request signal when its speed goes under (15 MPH) over the short range frequency, the spot logging unit will respond and send a spot log command to the said vehicle unit;

wherein the said vehicle unit periodically transmits its VIN code combined with location at real-time, until the vehicle'"'"'s speed goes to (zero), and when the vehicle'"'"'s speed goes above (zero), the vehicle unit will periodically transmit its VIN code combined with location until its speed goes above (15 MPH).

29. A method to determine the volume and the sizes of the vehicles to be used for an intersection design, wherein assigning a traffic logging unit for each one of the intersection legs to collect the VIN code from every vehicle passes by the traffic logging unit, wherein combining the stored data from each one of the traffic logging unit can determine the volume of traffic and the size of the vehicles whose crossing and turning at an intersection.

33. A method for roadway safety alert, wherein the police vehicle unit periodically transmits an (accident alert) message combined with instructions of how to safely approach the site of an accident by telling the drivers which lanes are safe to use and what speed is suitable;

wherein the police vehicle unit periodically transmits instruction message includes a detour passage in case of road repair or traffic jam;

wherein the transmitted message is displayed on the vehicle LCD unit;

wherein the yellow LED indicator will be flashing.

34. A system for high-speed pursuit, wherein the police vehicle unit transmits a log command over the long or the short range frequency, all of the responding vehicles will appear in a class category list displayed on the police LCD unit.

35. The system for high-speed pursuit of claim 34, wherein the police selects the vehicle category that fits the initial descriptions of the target vehicle from the category list;

wherein the police pinpoints the exact target vehicle and confirm it by the help of the programmed pictures.

36. The system for high-speed pursuit of claim 34;

wherein the log command is used to log the VIN codes of the target vehicles into the police unit, the police unit transmits the log command combined with any of the following parameters “

the target road name, the target direction, the vehicle position code, the police vehicle GPS coordinates, a reference speed, the target vehicle model, vehicle class category and the coordinates of a crime scene”

;

wherein the vehicle position code includes “

approach”

or “

depart”

.

37. The system for high-speed pursuit of claim 34, wherein the police transmits a connect command to connect the target vehicle to the network, the local dispatch center can communicate with all of the police vehicles in the vicinity of the target vehicle also to show the target vehicle on a tracking digital map;

the police can alert and warn or talk with the suspect or to stop his vehicle safely by using the control commands.

38. A system for roadway radar, wherein the police vehicle unit periodically transmits radar command via the long range signal to receive response from vehicles whose speeding over a selected reference speed;

wherein the speeding vehicles'"'"'s VIN codes and their (speed report) will be displayed in a list of higher priority vehicles for citation;

wherein the larger the vehicle along with the longest speeding period of the last 30 minutes of movement over the reference speed will take the highest priority for citation.

39. The system for roadway radar of claim 38, wherein the police vehicle unit will transmit the radar command combined with the reference speed, road name, target direction, vehicle position code “

approach” and

police vehicle GPS coordinates via the long range frequency.

40. The system for roadway radar of claim 39, wherein the speed report includes:

the number of times and the length of time in which a vehicle was speeding over the (reference speed) in the last 30 minutes of the vehicle movement;

wherein the cited vehicle is speeding over the reference speed when it receives the radar command;

wherein the cited vehicle will receive a speeding alert message and will be connected to the network.

41. A method for an accident report file comprising;

a record of the last 5 minutes of the vehicle movement before it comes to a complete stop, wherein the said record includes location, speed and heading at real-time status;

a record of the last 10 minutes of video, wherein 5 minutes of the recorded video recorded after the vehicle'"'"'s speed becomes zero.

42. The method for an accident report file of claim 41, wherein the police can download the accident report file by connecting his portable computer to the vehicle unit display via a USB cable.

43. A system for emergency vehicle intersection preemption comprising;

an intersection unit;

an emergency vehicle unit to periodically transmit the preemption codes over the long range frequency, wherein the said codes will be checked by the intersection unit to decide whether to grant the preemption request or ignore it;

the preemption codes;

pedestrian units.

44. The system for emergency vehicle intersection preemption of claim 43, wherein the preemption codes include;

a passcode;

the emergency vehicle coordinates;

the vehicle class type;

right/left turning codes;

the heading code;

the emergency vehicle ID.

45. The system for emergency vehicle intersection preemption of claim 44, wherein the passcode is a name of one of the intersection roadways names whose programmed in the intersection unit.

46. The system for emergency vehicle intersection preemption of claim 44, wherein the emergency vehicle coordinates is used by the intersection unit to calculate the distance between the intersection and the emergency vehicle.

47. The system for emergency vehicle intersection preemption of claim 46, wherein the intersection unit will trigger the traffic controller to change the light signals regardless the speed of the emergency vehicle when that said distance lies between (0.6 mile and 0.4 mile).

48. The system for emergency vehicle intersection preemption of claim 44, wherein the heading code tells the intersection unit which specific light signal to turn to green.

49. The system for emergency vehicle intersection preemption of claim 44, wherein the vehicle class type includes class A type for emergency vehicles and class B type for non emergency vehicles;

wherein class A type includes fire trucks, ambulances and police vehicles;

wherein fire trucks have higher priority over ambulances, and ambulances have higher priority over police vehicles.

50. The system for emergency vehicle intersection preemption of claim 44, wherein the intersection unit will trigger the traffic controller to allow right/left turning when the distance between the emergency vehicle and the intersection lies between (0.2 mile and 0.1 mile);

wherein one of the LCD display buttons is used to turn on/off the preemption process and another button to transmit the right turning code and another button to transmit the left turning code;

wherein 6 seconds of yellow interval signal in the direction of the approaching that interfere with the turning of the emergency vehicle before it turns to red signal.

51. The system for emergency vehicle intersection preemption of claim 43, wherein the emergency vehicle periodically transmits the roadways names combined with the preemption codes over the long range radio frequency;

wherein the intersection unit receives the names consecutively and compare them to the names whose stored in its memory, and if one name matches, then it will read the vehicle coordinates, vehicle class type, vehicle ID, heading;

wherein the intersection unit will decide the order of priority based on the class type of the vehicle and/or first come first served manner.

52. The system for emergency vehicle intersection preemption of claim 43, wherein the light signals changing process starts by allowing 6 seconds of yellow interval light in the direction of the approaches that may conflict with the emergency vehicle approach before the signal turns into red;

wherein the intersection unit extends the green time until the end of the preemption if there was no conflict with the approaching emergency vehicle.

53. The system for emergency vehicle intersection preemption of claim 49, wherein the class B type vehicle transmits the preemption codes over the short range radio frequency;

wherein the intersection unit will not send messages or signals;

wherein the preemption process will take a predetermined period of time before the controller goes back to its normal timing.

54. The system for emergency vehicle intersection preemption of claim 43, wherein the intersection unit after granting the preemption will transmit the vehicle ID combined with the road name and the heading of the preempted vehicle and the intersection coordinates;

wherein the alert message “

access O.K.”

is displayed on the LCD display of only the preempted emergency vehicle along with illuminating the green LED indicator;

wherein the un-preempted emergency vehicles will display the names of the intersection roadways and the heading of the preempted vehicle along with flashing the yellow LED indicator.

55. The system for emergency vehicle intersection preemption of claim 54, wherein the road name and the heading of the preempted vehicle will be displayed on the LCD display of the non emergency vehicles when they receive a signal from the intersection unit;

wherein their yellow LED indicators will start flashing.

56. The system for emergency vehicle intersection preemption of claim 51, wherein the intersection unit ends the preemption of class A vehicles when the distance between the emergency vehicle and the intersection lies between (0.1 mile and zero), also it will consider the end of the preemption when it receives names not stored in its memory, also after the end of the preemption, the light signals will remain the same for 10 seconds before the intersection controller goes back to its normal timing.

57. The system for emergency vehicle intersection preemption of claim 43, wherein the pedestrians units will start flashing their warning LEDs indicator when that said pedestrians units receive a signal from their respective intersection unit.

58. A method for missing person search and crime-fighting involving vehicles comprising;

a 3 meter range RFID active tag to be attached to a person or an object;

wherein the said tag periodically transmits its ID, wherein the vehicle unit receives the tag ID and stores it.

59. The method for missing person search and crime-fighting involving vehicles of claim 58, wherein the vehicle unit is programmed to create a tag report who contains the tag'"'"'s ID, the VIN code of the vehicle, the date/time and period of time in which the tag was logged in the said vehicle.

60. The method for missing person search and crime-fighting involving vehicles of claim 59, wherein a police vehicle unit will transmit an RFID tag command or a clone command combined with the RFID tag command along with, the cell-phone codes, the local dispatch center'"'"'s phone number, the target tag ID and a time window.

61. The method for missing person search and crime-fighting involving vehicles of claim 60, wherein the vehicle unit will connect to the network and send the tag report to the local dispatch center within a window of time.

62. The method for missing person search and crime-fighting involving vehicles of claim 61, wherein the said window of time is a period of time in minutes for the vehicle unit to randomly select a time within it to send the tag report.

63. A method for children safety in hot-cars comprising;

a 3 meter range RFID active tag to be attached to a child;

a thermal module as a component of the vehicle unit to determine the temperature inside the vehicle.

64. The method for children safety in hot-cars of claim 63, wherein the said tag periodically transmits its ID, wherein the vehicle unit receives the tag ID and stores it;

wherein the vehicle unit triggers the vehicle'"'"'s siren and/or calling the (parents or the caregivers) phone number when the temperature inside the vehicle reaches a critical point for a predetermine period of time.

66. A method for law enforcement safety during a check of a vehicle, when the police decides to pull over a vehicle, he will send a log command to the vehicle, the logged vehicles will appear in the class category list, and by selecting the right category, the police can pinpoint the exact target vehicle from the list, and then send connect command to connect it to the network;

wherein the police can alert the driver by sending warning and instruction text messages and/or talk with the driver or to stop his vehicle safely.

67. A smartphone app for the in-car traffic light system comprising one section for vehicles and the other section for pedestrians;

wherein the smartphone vehicle'"'"'s section of the said app upload the latitude/longitude information collected by the application to a web based server and download the traffic light cycle ID that belongs to the leg segment and the direction of moving;

wherein the traffic light phases are displayed as conventional shapes on the screen of the smartphone;

wherein the traffic light phases are displayed as animated Markers on a Roadmap.

68. The smartphone app for the in-car traffic light system of claim 67;

wherein the smartphone pedestrian'"'"'s section of the said app upload the latitude/longitude information collected by the application to the said web based server and download the pedestrian cycle ID along with the street name of the desired street intersection;

wherein the walking cycle along with the street name are displayed on the screen of the smartphone.

69. A system for in-car traffic light for the consumer-grade GPS receivers and GPS-enabled smartphones;

wherein the consumer-grade GPS receivers and the GPS-enabled smartphones are loaded with database of track points, traffic light cycles and maps;

wherein the owners of the GPS receivers and the GPS-enabled smartphones obtain the GPS database, the traffic light cycles and maps in CD-ROM format and load them onto the receiver or the smartphone or use microSD memory cards that are preloaded with database of track points and the traffic light cycles;

wherein the consumer-grade GPS receivers and the GPS-enabled smartphones download the GPS data, the traffic light cycles and maps from the internet.