System And Method For Coordinating Parking Enforcement Officer Patrol In Real Time With The Aid Of A Digital Computer
First Claim
1. A system for coordinating parking enforcement officer patrol in real time with the aid of a digital computer, comprising:
- a storage device, comprising;
definitions of beats within a city for a plurality of parking enforcement officers within which enforcement activities are to be performed by each of the officers;
a super-beat that combines the beats of each of the officers, the officers on the super-beat forming a team; and
a time-based active representational model of the city that comprises estimates of parking violations expected to occur within the super-beat and which fuses parking citation data with information received from sensors in the city; and
a processor and memory within which code for execution by the processor is stored, further comprising;
an activity planner adapted to build several versions of a team activity plan for all of the officers on the team based upon the fused information from the active representational model, and to identify the team activity plan that optimizes performance by the team;
an observer adapted to regularly track activities of the officers on the team and the officers'"'"' directions of travel while on the super-beat; and
an opportunity predictor adapted to identify areas within the super-beat situated about each officer'"'"'s direction of travel within which the estimated parking violations in the optimal team activity plans fall and to generate recommendations for each officer for each area identified about that officer'"'"'s direction of travel based upon the tracked activities of and the enforcement activities collectively performed by the officers on the team.
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Abstract
A system and method for coordinating parking enforcement officer patrol in real time with the aid of a digital computer is provided. A time-based active representational model of the city is created by fusing sensory data collected from various sources around a city with numerical data gleaned from historical and ongoing activities, including parking regulation citation and warning numbers, resource allocations, and so on. The model can be used to form quantitative predictions of expected violations, revenue stream, and so forth, that can then be used as recommendations as to where to enforce and when, so as to maximize the utilization of the limited resources represented by the officers on the street. Moreover, the performance of the officers can be weighed against expectations of performance postulated from the quantitative predictions.
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1. A system for coordinating parking enforcement officer patrol in real time with the aid of a digital computer, comprising:
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a storage device, comprising; definitions of beats within a city for a plurality of parking enforcement officers within which enforcement activities are to be performed by each of the officers; a super-beat that combines the beats of each of the officers, the officers on the super-beat forming a team; and a time-based active representational model of the city that comprises estimates of parking violations expected to occur within the super-beat and which fuses parking citation data with information received from sensors in the city; and a processor and memory within which code for execution by the processor is stored, further comprising; an activity planner adapted to build several versions of a team activity plan for all of the officers on the team based upon the fused information from the active representational model, and to identify the team activity plan that optimizes performance by the team; an observer adapted to regularly track activities of the officers on the team and the officers'"'"' directions of travel while on the super-beat; and an opportunity predictor adapted to identify areas within the super-beat situated about each officer'"'"'s direction of travel within which the estimated parking violations in the optimal team activity plans fall and to generate recommendations for each officer for each area identified about that officer'"'"'s direction of travel based upon the tracked activities of and the enforcement activities collectively performed by the officers on the team. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method for coordinating parking enforcement officer patrol in real time with the aid of a digital computer, comprising the steps of:
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defining beats within a city for a plurality of parking enforcement officers within which enforcement activities are to be performed by each of the officers; combining the beats of each of the officers into a super-beat, the officers on the super-beat forming a team; fusing parking citation data with information received from sensors in the city into a time-based active representational model of the city that comprises estimates of parking violations expected to occur within the super-beat; building several versions of a team activity plan for all of the officers on the team based upon the fused information from the active representational model; identifying the team activity plan that optimizes performance by the team; regularly tracking activities of the officers on the team and the officers'"'"' directions of travel while on the super-beat; and identifying areas within the super-beat situated about each officer'"'"'s direction of travel within which the estimated parking violations in the optimal team activity plans fall and generating recommendations for each officer for each area identified about that officer'"'"'s direction of travel based upon the tracked activities of and the enforcement activities collectively performed by the officers on the team. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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