BOOKING AND CANCELLATION METHOD, AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING TOLLS IN A TOLL COLLECTION SYSTEM

• US 20150012309A1
• Filed: 01/28/2013
• Published: 01/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toll Collect GmbH (Government of Germany)
• Original Assignee: Toll Collect GmbH (Government of Germany)
• Inventors: Buchheim, Timm, Janssen, Hartmut
• Granted Patent: US 10,417,834 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/02 taking into account a variable factor such as distance or time, e.g. for passenger transport, parking systems or car rental systems G07B15/06 takes precedence; taximeters G07B13/00; parking meters per se G07F17/24; car rental systems per se G07B15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/063 using wireless information transmission between the vehicle and a fixed station identification of vehicles G08G

Abstract

According to the invention, in order to book an authorization for the imminent potential use of one out of several alternatively usable traffic areas by a vehicle in sufficient time, first position data of the vehicle are associated with all alternatively usable traffic areas with regard to the imminent potential use thereof, and use authorizations are booked for all of said traffic areas, wherein said use authorizations can be voided, with the exception of the one that was verifiably used, insofar as second position data of the vehicle are associated with the same traffic areas with respect to a verified non-use.

Claims

1. A method for booking and canceling use authorizations in a system for collecting tolls for the use of traffic areas which are subject to tolls by a vehicle (50) having the following phases:

a) a first data detection phase in which first position-related data of the vehicle (50) are detected,

b) a first association phase in which the first position-related data are associated

i) with a possible imminent use of at least a first traffic area which is subject to tolls by the vehicle (50) and

ii) with at least one possible use of a second traffic area which is subject to tolls by the vehicle (50), which is imminent as an alternative to the first traffic area which is subject to tolls,

c) a booking phase in which

i) a first use authorization relating to the vehicle (50) is booked for the first traffic area which is subject to tolls and

ii) in addition to the first use authorization a second use authorization relating to the vehicle (50) is booked for the second traffic area which is subject to tolls,

d) a second data detection phase in which second position-related data of the vehicle (50) are detected,

e) a second association phase in which the second position-related data are associated with a confirmed non-use of at least the first traffic area which is subject to tolls by the vehicle (50),

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f) a cancelation phase in which at least the first use authorization for the first traffic area which is subject to tolls is canceled.

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