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TRAFFIC MONITORING SYSTEM AND TRAFFIC MONITORING METHOD

  • US 20150254976A1
  • Filed: 12/04/2014
  • Published: 09/10/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A traffic monitoring system for monitoring traffic on a plurality of roads, comprising:

  • one or more road monitoring devices, each road monitoring device positioned along a road and each road monitoring device having specific transmittable position information stored therein; and

    a traffic control center electronically coupled to the one or more road monitoring devices, the traffic control center having stored transmittable images of a plurality of vehicle types and stored transmittable images of the plurality of roads to be monitored;

    wherein, when one or more vehicles passes one of the plurality of road monitoring devices, the road monitoring device receives a vehicle identification code from each vehicle identifying the specific vehicle, the vehicle identification code being transmitted from a vehicle terminal device mounted in each vehicle;

    wherein, when the road monitoring device receives each specific vehicle identification code, the road monitoring device calculates position information of each vehicle and transmits the road monitoring device position information, each vehicle identification code and the calculated vehicle position information for each vehicle to the traffic control center;

    wherein, the traffic control center configures a three dimensional vehicle image of each vehicle and each vehicle position based on the stored vehicle types and the stored images of the monitored roads; and

    wherein, the traffic control center configures a three dimensional traffic image from all of the vehicle images of the one or more vehicles passing the one of the plurality of road monitoring devices.

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