396results about "Transportation facility access" patented technology

A method for reducing violence within crowded venues includes reading license plates of vehicles passing into entry ports of a parking area, and capturing facial images of persons seeking admission to the venue. A computer compares such license plates to a database of vehicle license plates associated with persons with past histories of violence. A computer also compares captured facial images to a database of facial data for persons with past violent histories. Upon detecting a match, the computer creates an alert presented to law enforcement officers at the venue to facilitate detention of such persons for investigation. Information recorded on entry tickets is scanned and saved together with the facial image of the ticket holder. If a violent act occurs, cameras within the venue capture facial images of participants. The computer matches such participants to stored identifying data to assist in the identification and apprehension of such persons.

A system and method for dispatching a plurality of vehicles operating in a work area among a plurality of destination locations and a plurality of source locations includes implementing linear programming that takes in an optimization function and constraints to generate an optimum schedule for optimum production, utilizing a reinforcement learning algorithm that takes in the schedule as input and cycles through possible environmental states that could occur within the schedule by choosing one possible action for each possible environmental state and by observing the reward obtained by taking the action at each possible environmental state, developing a policy for each possible environmental state, and providing instructions to follow an action associated with the policy.

A system and method for processing toll-based payment transactions via a mobile device is described. The mobile device may include a processor configuring the mobile device to: receive a GPS location of the mobile device; receive location information associated with at least one tolling location; determine whether the mobile device is within a predetermined distance of the at least one tolling location based on the GPS location of the mobile device; record a tolling event when the mobile device is within the predetermined distance of the at least one tolling location; and communicate the tolling event to a server for processing a toll-based transaction.

Proposed is an automated telematics-based system (1) for score-driven operations associated with motor vehicles (41, . . . , 45) or transportation means of passengers or goods and based on a dynamic, telematics-based data aggregation, and method thereof, for automated risk-transfer related to complex peer-to-peer lending schemes, especially related to vehicles and car sharing schemes and sharing economy transportation schemes related to risks associated with damages to third parties. The telematics-based system (1) comprises telematics devices (411, . . . , 415) associated with the plurality of motor vehicles (41, . . . , 45), wherein the telematics devices (411, . . . , 415) comprise a wireless connection (42101-42108) to a central, expert-system-based circuit (11). The telematics devices (411, . . . , 415) are connected via interfaces (421, . . . , 425) to the sensors and/or measuring devices (401, . . . , 405) and/or an on-board diagnostic system (431, . . . , 435) and/or an in-car interactive device (441, . . . , 445), wherein the telematics devices (411, . . . , 415) capture usage-based (31) and/or user-based (32) and/or operational (33) telematics data (3) of the motor vehicle (41, . . . , 45) and/or user (321, 322, 323). In response to an emitted shadow request (109) individualized risk-transfer profiles (114) based upon the dynamically generated variable scoring parameters (1011, . . . , 1013) are transmitted from a first risk-transfer systems (11) to the corresponding motor vehicle (41, . . . , 45) and issued by means of a user unit (461, . . . , 465) of the motor vehicle (41, . . . , 45) for selection by the driver of the motor vehicles (41, . . . , 45). In return of issuing an individualized risk-transfer profile (114) over said user unit (461, . . . , 465), payment-transfer parameters are transmitted from the first risk-transfer system (11) to the provider of the telematics-based system (1).

A system including: (a) a database of individual on-street parking spots, and individual off-street parking spots, each of the individual parking spots associated with a unique identifier (UID) and location coordinates; and (b) an off street spot management module in communication one or more external client devices, adapted to receive parking rules from an external client device operated by an owner of each of the individual off-street parking spots.

A control system and method are provided for a station to dispense fuel to a vehicle, including an electric vehicle, without requiring dedicated access to a communications network, with the advantage that authorization for fleet vehicles or individuals can be obtained from an access management system, using a portable, wireless device, such as a smart phone or a dashboard appliance. The authorization is wirelessly relayed to the station by the wireless device, to enable the dispensing of fuel. Subsequently, a log comprising the transaction is provided to the access management system, through the same or a different wireless, mobile computing device. The log may also report status and other events, such as load shedding.

Interrogation of an electronic device by a first terminal is facilitated, to obtain an account number associated with the electronic device. The electronic device is configured according to a payment specification. The first terminal has a first terminal payment module configured according to the payment specification and a first terminal electronic merchandise module configured according to the electronic merchandise infrastructure and coupled to the first terminal payment module to permit transfer of non-payment e-merchandise related information from the first terminal electronic merchandise module to the first terminal payment module. The interrogation of the electronic device is performed by the first terminal payment module. Generation of non-payment e-merchandise related information by the first terminal electronic merchandise module is facilitated. Transfer of the non-payment e-merchandise related information from the first terminal electronic merchandise module to the electronic device via the first terminal payment module, within a transaction between the electronic device and the first terminal payment module that is conducted in accordance with the payment specification, is also facilitated. The non-payment e-merchandise related information is stored on the electronic device in accordance with the payment specification. The electronic device and the first terminal independently calculate a summary data item. The first terminal calculates a first message authentication code based on the non-payment e-merchandise related information and a terminal-calculated value of the summary data item. The non-payment e-merchandise related information is stored on the electronic device together with an electronic device-calculated value of the summary data item and the first message authentication code.

The invention discloses a tolling highway network traffic information acquisition and induction system based on a path identification system. The tolling highway network traffic information acquisition and induction system comprises a tolling highway outlet, inlet tolling lane system, a networking tolling center system, a 5.8G path identification station, a 5.8G path identification station monitoring system, a MTC vehicle double-frequency passing card, an ETC vehicle OBU and noncash payment card, an on-board multimedia terminal, and a traffic information processing system. The tolling highway network traffic information acquisition and induction system is advantageous in that by adopting the 5.8G Hz path identification station, the double-frequency passing card provided with the Bluetooth module, the OBU, and the on-board multimedia terminal, the path identification and traffic information acquisition and the traffic information push can be realized; by adopting the combination between the cloud calculation and the 5.8G path identification station distributed calculation, the processing and the prediction of the information such as the traveling time, the traffic flow, the travel speed, the traffic state, and the vehicle position of the tolling highway segment can be realized, and therefore the accurate and reliable front traffic information can be provided for the highway user.

A system for managing a toll-based roadway includes one or more receiving units positioned above or proximate the roadway and a sensing unit positioned within a vehicle traveling on the roadway. The sensing unit is configured to sense occupancy data based on the number of passengers within the vehicle. The occupancy data is communicated to the one or more receiving units.

A system, mobile device, backend server, and RFID toll module work in cooperation to automatically pay vehicular tolls to a toll agency that operates toll stations along a roadways traveled by the user of the mobile device. Upon approaching a toll station the mobile device enables the RFID toll module. The toll reader at the toll station transmits a toll reader signal that is received by the RFID toll module, which responds by transmitting a unique identifier. The unique identifier is associated with the mobile device at a toll account maintained by a toll service backend server. Upon completion of a toll transaction, the RFID toll module indicates the transaction to the mobile device, which forwards toll transaction information to the toll service backend server for payment from the toll account to the toll agency.

A system for serving a shared-ride user, including a non-transitory storage component and a hardware-based processing unit performing module functions. The storage includes a user-input-interface module that receives, from a machine interface, user-input data regarding a user/co-passenger interaction. The storage includes a ride-sharing module determining, based on input data, an identity or account for the co-passenger, and an output module performing an action based on the identity or account. In another aspect, the storage includes a commerce module determining, based on the input data, a service or product indicated in the interaction and the output action is based on the service or product. In another aspect, the storage includes a social-media module accessing a social-media resource to, using the input data, determine an identity or account of the co-passenger, a product or service indicated by the co-passenger or the user in the interaction, or a schedule of the co-passenger.

An implementation of a system and method for processing transfer rides associated with at least one public transit network is provided. The system and method preprocess transactions to consolidate or eliminate unnecessary transactions with a financial institution clearing and settlement network.

The specification discloses an offline payment, business processing and payment processing methods and apparatuses. When both a collection device and a payment device are in an offline state, the collection device establishes communication connection with the payment device to send payment data to the payment device, so that the payment device carries out payment processing based on the payment data; a payment result is obtained and the obtained payment result is returned to the collection device; and the payment device can carry out collection processing based on the payment result and the obtained account information of the payment device, thereby obtaining a collection result.

The environmental impact of vehicle transit through an area is often evaluated through indirect and/or aggregate metrics, such as visibility and/or health effects from smog, or the contamination of air or water quality. However, such environmental metrics may be inaccurate, incomplete, delayed, and/or insufficient to inform a user of a vehicle as to the environmental impact of the vehicle transit of his or her vehicle on the environment. Instead, a vehicle device may collect driving metrics for a vehicle, and may transmit such driving metrics to an environmental monitoring service, which may correlate such driving metrics for the vehicle with the environmental impact. A notification of environmental impact may be transmitted back to the vehicle device, which may present the environmental impact to the user, and/or may adjust an autonomous operation of the vehicle, such as a speed or route of the vehicle, in view of the environmental impact.

Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for providing conditional access for a drone for accessing a restricted area. Conditional access information associated with conditional access restrictions for the restricted area may be received by the drone. The drone may compare the received conditional access information to one or more access parameters for the drone. The drone may access the restricted area based on the comparison of the received conditional access information and the access parameter. A drone may take corrective action when the received conditional access information does not permit access to the restricted area based on the access parameter for the drone.