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Automated, door-to-door, demand-responsive public transportation system

  • US 4,360,875 A
  • Filed: 02/23/1981
  • Issued: 11/23/1982
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/23/1981
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An automatic system for providing public ride-user access to transportation by driver-operated vehicles, each vehicle having independent variable origins and destinations and routes therebetween determined by its driver, said system comprising:

  • (a) a central coordinating station comprising means for receiving ride-offer electromagnetic signals, indicative of driver-selected origins and destinations, and ride-request electromagnetic signals, indicative of ride-user-selected origins and destinations, respectively;

    (b) respective driver terminal means in telecommunication with said central coordinating station, each of said driver terminal means including driver register means for registering a driver-selected origin and variable driver-selected destinations from a plurality of possible destinations having no predetermined route relationship to one another and means for transmitting to said station said ride-offer electromagnetic signals;

    (c) respective ride-user terminal means in telecommunication with said central coordinating station, each of said ride-user terminal means including ride-user register means for registering a ride-user-selected origin and destination not necessarily located identically to said driver-selected origin and destination and means for transmitting to said station said ride-request electromagnetic signals;

    (d) said central coordinating station including logical circuitry means automatically responsive to said ride-offer and ride-request electromagnetic signals respectively for comparing said respective electromagnetic signals with each other and matching together a respective driver and ride-user whose respective origins and destinations as indicated by said signals bear a predetermined geographical relationship to each other even though such respective origins and destinations are not located identically to each other;

    (e) said central coordinating station further including means automatically responsive to said respective electromagnetic signals for transmitting electromagnetic message signals to a respective driver directing said respective driver to the respective origin of a ride-user with which said respective driver has been so matched, each of said driver terminal means having receiver means in telecommunication with said central coordinating station for receiving said electromagnetic message signals.

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