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System for guiding vehicles

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  • US 6,754,580 B1
  • Filed: 03/12/2002
  • Issued: 06/22/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/21/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. System for controlling vehicle movements, in areas containing a road network, and a plurality of vehicles that exhibit means for identification, means for road information and means for transmission of information between the vehicle and a traffic information center, characterized in thatthe road network is so arranged as to be entered into the system as a data network, each vehicle that is intended to make use of the road network is logged in for travelling on the road network, the each vehicle is identified with an identity at the time of logging in, in conjunction with which the identity is either dynamic or static, information relating to the intended destination is sent in from each vehicle to the traffic information center in conjunction with logging in or later in the course of a journey when there is a new desired destination, information about position and speed of the each vehicle is reported at regular intervals to the aforementioned traffic information center, whereby overall control of the traffic is achieved on the basis of the information reported to the traffic information center, information about a proposed route for each vehicle is transmitted from the traffic information center to the each vehicle and the system exhibits an exact image of the actual traffic situation and guides the traffic dynamically, for control of the traffic situation centrally.

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