Method of determining the use of at least one toll road section
First Claim
1. A method of detecting whether at least one toll road section is being used by a vehicle (FAR), wherein the position of said vehicle (FAR) is determined by means of at least one position calculating system (POS) and the determined position is implemented to ascertain whether the road section being used is a toll road section, and wherein said vehicle (FAR) has a transmitter/receiver unit (SEE) that is adapted to exchange data (DAT) with a cellular radio network (FUN), and to each cell (ZEL) of said radio network (FUN) at least one cell identifier (ZID) is assigned, and when there is at least partial failure of the position calculating system (POS) said at least one cell ID (ZID) is implemented to ascertain whether the road section being used by said vehicle (FAR) is a toll road section, characterized in that each cell assigned to a toll road section is weighted by a weight characteristic of the relevance of said cell for recognition of said toll road section.
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Abstract
A method of, and a toll-collecting system (SYS) for, determining whether at least one toll road section is being used by a vehicle (FAR), wherein the position of the vehicle (FAR) is determined by means of at least one position calculating system (POS) and the determined position is implemented to ascertain whether the road section being used is a toll road section, and wherein the vehicle (FAR) has, in addition to said position calculating system, a transmitter/receiver unit (SEE) that is adapted to exchange data (DAT) with a cellular radio network (FUN), and that to each cell (ZEL) of the radio network (FUN) at least one cell identifier (ZID) is assigned, and when there is at least partial failure of the position calculating system (POS) the at least one cell ID (ZID) is implemented to ascertain whether the road section being used by said vehicle (FAR) is a toll road section.
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21 Claims
- 1. A method of detecting whether at least one toll road section is being used by a vehicle (FAR), wherein the position of said vehicle (FAR) is determined by means of at least one position calculating system (POS) and the determined position is implemented to ascertain whether the road section being used is a toll road section, and wherein said vehicle (FAR) has a transmitter/receiver unit (SEE) that is adapted to exchange data (DAT) with a cellular radio network (FUN), and to each cell (ZEL) of said radio network (FUN) at least one cell identifier (ZID) is assigned, and when there is at least partial failure of the position calculating system (POS) said at least one cell ID (ZID) is implemented to ascertain whether the road section being used by said vehicle (FAR) is a toll road section, characterized in that each cell assigned to a toll road section is weighted by a weight characteristic of the relevance of said cell for recognition of said toll road section.
- 12. A toll-collecting system (SYS) comprising at least one position-calculating system (POS) that is adapted to ascertain the position of a vehicle (FAR), which vehicle (FAR) has a road section identifying unit (FID) that is adapted to check, with reference to at least said detected positions, whether the road section being used is a toll road section, wherein said road section identifying unit (FID) has a transmitter/receiver unit (SEE) that is adapted to exchange data (DAT) with a cellular radio network (FUN), and to each cell (ZEL) of said radio network (FUN) at least one cell identifier (ZID) is assigned, and said road section identifying unit (FID) is adapted to check, when there is at least partial failure of said position calculating system (POS), whether the road section being used by said vehicle (FAR) is a toll road section, implementing at least one cell ID (ZID) for this purpose, characterized in that said road section identifying unit (FID) is adapted to weight each cell assigned to a toll road section by a weight characteristic of the relevance of said cell for recognition of said toll road section.
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