MANAGED ACCESS SYSTEM FOR TRAFFIC FLOW OPTIMIZATION
First Claim
1. A method for providing traffic control, the method comprising:
- receiving a request to travel in a vehicle having a vehicle identifier, the request originating from a device associated with the vehicle and the request comprising at least one of;
(a) a destination or origin;
(b) a direction of travel;
(c) an original and a destination;
or (d) a route;
receiving information about a current traffic congestion condition for the request to travel;
determining a travel delay based on the request and current traffic congestion condition, wherein the travel delay represents a waiting time after the request to travel; and
transmitting a message, the message indicating when, based on the travel delay, the vehicle is authorized to begin to travel according to the request.
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems to manage traffic density in a transportation system, and by doing so, maintain, in one embodiment, traffic flows near optimum levels to maximize road capacity and minimize travel times. The method includes, in one embodiment, a mechanism for vehicles to request road access from a centalized control, a queuing system that allows road access to be granted to individual vehicles over an extended period of time in a fair and organized fashion, a measurement system that allows traffic flow and density throughout the system to be determined in real-time, and an enforcement and fraud prevention mechanism to ensure that the rules and permissions imposed by the system are followed.
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47 Claims
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1. A method for providing traffic control, the method comprising:
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receiving a request to travel in a vehicle having a vehicle identifier, the request originating from a device associated with the vehicle and the request comprising at least one of;
(a) a destination or origin;
(b) a direction of travel;
(c) an original and a destination;
or (d) a route;receiving information about a current traffic congestion condition for the request to travel; determining a travel delay based on the request and current traffic congestion condition, wherein the travel delay represents a waiting time after the request to travel; and transmitting a message, the message indicating when, based on the travel delay, the vehicle is authorized to begin to travel according to the request. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A non-transitory machine readable storage medium storing computer program instructions which, when executed by a data processing system, cause the data processing system to perform a method for providing traffic control, the method comprising:
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receiving a request to travel in a vehicle having a vehicle identifier, the request originating from a device associated with the vehicle and the request comprising at least one of;
(a) a destination or origin;
(b) a direction of travel;
(c) an origin and a destination;
or (d) a route;receiving information about a current traffic congestion condition for the request to travel; determining a travel delay based on the request and the current traffic congestion condition, wherein the travel delay represents a waiting time after the request to travel; and transmitting a message, the message indicating when, based on the travel delay, the vehicle is authorized to begin to travel according to the request. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A data processing system for providing traffic control, the data processing system comprising:
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means for receiving a request to travel in a vehicle having a vehicle identifier, the request originating from a device associated with the vehicle and the request comprising at last one of;
(a) a destination or origin;
(b) a direction of travel;
(c) an original and a destination;
or (d) a route;means for receiving information about a current traffic congestion condition for the request to travel; means for determining a travel delay based on the request and current traffic congestion condition, wherein the travel delay represents a waiting time after the request to travel; and means for transmitting a massage, the message indicating when, based on the travel delay, the vehicle is authorized to begin to travel according to the request.
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18. A data processing system comprising:
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an input device and an output device; a processing system coupled to the input device and to the output device; a wireless transceiver coupled to the processing system and configured to transmit data to and to receive data from one or more data processing systems, the processing system and the wireless transceiver configured to transmit a request to travel in a vehicle having a vehicle identifier, and the processing system and the wireless transceiver configured to receive a message indicating when, based on a travel delay, the vehicle is authorized to begin to travel according to the request, the travel delay being based on current traffic congestion conditions, wherein the travel delay represents a waiting time after the request to travel. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A data processing system for anonymizing vehicle identifiers, the system comprising:
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a processing system; a network interface coupled to the processing system, the network interface configured to communicate with a server system that transmits messages to user devices indicating when vehicles are authorized to begin to travel, the processing system configured to receive requests to travel from the user devices, the requests specifying vehicle identifiers for vehicles associated with the user devices, and the processing system configured to transmit anonymized identifiers, corresponding to the vehicle identifiers, to the server system to permit the server system to identify the vehicles without using the actual vehicle identifiers. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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40. An enforcement sensor for use in a traffic control system, the enforcement sensor comprising:
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a radio frequency (RF) receiver configured to receive data about one or more vehicles on one or more roads, the data including a permission code which includes, within the permission code, at least one of;
a vehicle identifier, a hash of the vehicle identifier, or a salted hash of the vehicle identifier, and the permission code also includes information about an authorized route;a processing system coupled to the RF receiver, the processing system configured to extract the vehicle identifier or the hash of the vehicle identifier or the salted hash of the vehicle identifier from the permission code and to perform a comparison operation using the extracted data and the vehicle identifier received through either the RF receiver or a camera coupled to the processing system to determine whether the vehicle is authorized to travel on the route; a transmitter coupled to the processing system, the transmitter configured to transmit a travel violation based on the comparison operation, the travel violation being transmitted, directly or indirectly to an enforcement authority. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42, 43)
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44. A device mounted on a vehicle the device for use in a traffic control system, the device comprising:
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a memory configured to store a permission code received from a traffic control system in response to a user'"'"'s on-demand request to travel, the permission code including information about a route authorized by the traffic control system and data associated with a vehicle identifier of the vehicle, the data associated with the vehicle identifier being one of;
the vehicle identifier or a hash of the vehicle identifier or a salted hash of the vehicle identifier;a transmitter coupled to an antenna; a processing system coupled to the memory and to the transmitter, the processing system configured to transmit the permission code to an enforcement sensor which is coupled to one of the traffic control system or an enforcement agency associated with the traffic control system. - View Dependent Claims (45, 46, 47)
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