88 results about "Road pricing" patented technology

A lane-level vehicle routing and navigation apparatus includes a simulation module that performs microsimulation of individual vehicles in a traffic stream, and a lane-level optimizer that evaluates conditions along the candidate paths from an origin to a destination as determined by the simulation module, and determines recommended lane-level maneuvers along the candidate paths. A link-level optimizer may determines the candidate paths based on link travel times determined by the simulation module. The simulation may be based on real-time traffic condition data. Recommended candidate paths may be provided to delivery or service or emergency response vehicles, or used for evacuation planning, or to route vehicles such as garbage or postal trucks, or snowplows. Corresponding methods also may be used for traffic planning and management, including determining, based on microsimulation, at least one of (a) altered road geometry, (b) altered traffic signal settings, such as traffic signal timing, or (c) road pricing.

This invention relates to a system and method to generate a private, auditable, evidentiary quality record of the location-history of an asset or person. This invention addresses ten critical improvements over existing systems that are proposed or used for metering for payment services for tolling roads, parking or pay-as-you-drive insurance, namely, cost-effective location accuracy in harsh signal environments, evidentiary assurance of location estimation, handling of dynamic and stationary positioning in a single device, high-ratio compression for a set of stationary positions in urban canyon, high-ratio compression for a dynamic tracklog in urban canyon, high-ratio compression for a set of asset motion behaviors, a method of remote device health check, including anti-tampering, removal of residual price assignment errors, anonymous use without on-board maps, and a method of deconsolidating payments to multiple payees with multiple payment regimes. This system can be applied to road-pricing, congestion-pricing, metered-by-the-minute parking and pay-as-you-drive insurance, incorporating privacy management, and legal admissibility of the evidentiary record. This same device can also be applied to vehicular fleets, military ordinance, or other location audits for assets whether motorized or not, as might be needed in evidence of contract fulfillment or other forms of non-realtime geofencing audits.

The present invention discloses an intelligent traffic system. The system at least comprises a traffic control center, a traffic information service center, a cellular mobile communication system, a road toll collection system and an in-vehicle terminal, which are connected with each other via a wired communication network. The in-vehicle terminal communicates with the traffic control center, the road toll collection system and the traffic information service center respectively via the cellular mobile communication system. The present invention further claims an in-vehicle terminal used in an intelligent traffic system and a method for realizing an intelligent traffic system with a cellular mobile communication system. By adopting the intelligent traffic system, its construction cost will be reduced greatly.

This invention relates to a system and method to generate a private, auditable, evidentiary quality record of the location-history of an asset or person. This invention addresses ten critical improvements over existing systems that are proposed or used for metering for payment services for tolling roads, parking or pay-as-you-drive insurance, namely, cost-effective location accuracy in harsh signal environments, evidentiary assurance of location estimation, handling of dynamic and stationary positioning in a single device, high-ratio compression for a set of stationary positions in urban canyon, high-ratio compression for a dynamic tracklog in urban canyon, high-ratio compression for a set of asset motion behaviors, a method of remote device health check, including anti-tampering, removal of residual price assignment errors, anonymous use without on-board maps, and a method of deconsolidating payments to multiple payees with multiple payment regimes. This system can be applied to road-pricing, congestion-pricing, metered-by-the-minute parking and pay-as-you-drive insurance, incorporating privacy management, and legal admissibility of the evidentiary record. This same device can also be applied to vehicular fleets, military ordinance, or other location audits for assets whether motorized or not, as might be needed in evidence of contract fulfillment or other forms of non-realtime geofencing audits.

A method and a device for image registration of the external characteristics and the number plate of a vehicle in a road toll unit for checking the payment status relating to a toll fee, which is intended to be collected by means of remote communication. During the checking and payment operation, the vehicle is followed by successive video recordings. In these recordings, a marker is connected to the vehicle. The same marker is connected to the image of the number plate and to an image of the physical shape of the vehicle. In the event of incorrect payment, a search may be performed based upon both the image of the number plate and the associated image of the physical shape of the vehicle, which are connected together by means of the successive following of the position of the vehicle. The class of the vehicle may thus be determined, in accordance with a classification scheme based on the physical properties of the vehicle, from the image of the external characteristics of the vehicle for determining the toll fee.

A thin and flexible radio frequency (RF) antenna tag or label is disclosed which contains an RF circuit connected to an antenna which is created by demetallizing the area around the antenna pattern on a thin, metallized substrate such as a film or paper web. Antenna(s) may be formed on one or both sides of the substrate and can contain printed, holographic, optical variable device, diffractive, dot matrix, computer-generated holograms or computer-generated optical images. The demetallized RF antenna on the substrate can optionally further be transferred to a second substrate or web by means of a cold foil stamping process. The tag or label is thin and flexible, enabling a wide range of applications including RF tagging of anti-theft devices, product packaging of all types, credit cards, passports, admission tickets, stamps, vehicles, badges, fare cards, roadway tolls, customs and immigration checkpoints identification, and animal identification / tracking devices.

A method and a device for image registration of the external characteristics and the number plate of a vehicle (4) in a road toll unit (1) for checking the payment status relating to a toll fee, which is intended to be collected by means of remote communication. During the check-up and payment operation, the vehicle is followed by successive video recordings. In these recordings, a marker is connected to the vehicle. The same marker is connected to the image of the number plate and to an image of the physical shape of the vehicle (4). In the event of incorrect payment, a search may be based on both the image of the number plate and the associated image of the physical shape of the vehicle which are connected together by means of the successive following of the position. The class of the vehicle may thus be determined, in accordance with a classification scheme based on the physical properties of the vehicle, from the image of the external characteristics of the vehicle for determining the toll fee.

A lane-level vehicle routing and navigation apparatus includes a simulation module that performs microsimulation of individual vehicles in a traffic stream, and a lane-level optimizer that evaluates conditions along the candidate paths from an origin to a destination as determined by the simulation module, and determines recommended lane-level maneuvers along the candidate paths. A link-level optimizer may determines the candidate paths based on link travel times determined by the simulation module. The simulation may be based on real-time traffic condition data. Recommended candidate paths may be provided to delivery or service or emergency response vehicles, or used for evacuation planning, or to route vehicles such as garbage or postal trucks, or snowplows. Corresponding methods also may be used for traffic planning and management, including determining, based on microsimulation, at least one of (a) altered road geometry, (b) altered traffic signal settings, such as traffic signal timing, or (c) road pricing.

The invention relates to an unpiloted independently-driven and steered vehicle dynamics control quantity obtaining method. The method comprises the steps of: computing a vehicle dynamics control quantity achievable region on the basis of obtaining the information of a vehicle-road tracking system; adjusting the tracking expect deviation of the system according to the region; judging and processing the feasibility of the finally obtained vehicle dynamics control quantity; and timely evaluating and using the disturbance information of the system to improve the effectiveness, the reasonableness and the robustness of the vehicle dynamics control quantity obtained in a computation way. Therefore, the unpiloted AWID (applied wireless identifications)-AWIS (alexa web information service) vehicle can track a road path with greater curvature on a low-attachment coefficient road surface and a separation road surface at better precision and a higher speed, so that the vehicle is ideal in dynamics control effect and safe to run.

A route is set by reading map data of an area used for calculating the route. When this area includes a road pricing area, it is determined if there exists a road pricing area into where the user is permitted to enter based on the permission data (road pricing area to where the entrance is permitted and the permission period) read out from an IC card inserted in an ERP car-mounted unit and stored in a storage unit. When there exists a road pricing area to where the entrance is permitted, the road pricing area is excluded from the areas to be avoided, and the route is calculated.

The invention discloses a quick charging system and method for a toll road. The quick charging system for the toll road comprises a navigation payment terminal, an online payment service system, a road charge management system and a lane charge control system. The quick charging method for the toll road mainly comprises an online payment request starting process and an online payment request executing process. The quick charging system and method for the toll road use the online payment mode of the navigation payment terminal to replace the time-consuming cash payment link of the current manual charging mode to realize the fast pass of vehicles in the toll lane; the quick charging system can use the existing base facilities of the toll lane in common so as to facilitate the system implementation and application; as more and more people use the online payment means, the quick charging system and method for the toll road are more convenient to attract more users to use the payment means of the quick charging system and method for the toll road.

The invention provides a navigation system, a hybrid vehicle with same, and a method for searching for path for the hybrid vehicle. When an exhaust gas output vehicle is predicted to pass a road pricing area where the exhaust gas output vehicle is charged (YES decision at step S100), an ECU acquires the present SOC of a storage battery (step S110) and estimates the amount of energy required for the exhaust gas output vehicle to pass in an EV travel mode through the road pricing area where the exhaust gas output vehicle is charged (step S120). It is judged whether or not the exhaust gas outputvehicle can pass in the EV travel mode through the road pricing area on the basis of the present SOC and the estimated required energy (step S130). When it is judged that the exhaust gas output vehicle cannot pass through the road pricing area in the EV travel mode (NO decision at step S130), the ECU executes processing for guidance for a path to a nearby electric charging station (steps S145 to S180) and / or processing for guidance for a bypass (steps S190 to S220).

A road pricing smart client and method for a road pricing system enabling the removal of information from the positioning data describing the itinerary which suggest private data such as travelling speed and itinerary of the originator of the data. Accordingly, the smart client and method is configured to re-sample the original positioning points of the route into equidistant sections, remove timing information from the positioning data, slice the re-sampled route into slices shaped as those provided by other road users by employing a common “virtual grid”. By transmitting the slices in randomized order with an arbitrary delay, coherence of slices corresponding to formerly neighboring portions of the itinerary, are not correlated anymore. However, there is still enough information provided to the toll system to send an excerpt of the fee database allowing the smart pricing client or method to calculate the occurred fees.The main advantage of the smart client and method is that it delegates in a secure and privacy-preserving way the costly operations to the external toll server proxy. Thus, storage of digital maps in the client is not required, and tariff updates are only transmitted when necessary in a way that preserves privacy. Finally the data transmitted by the smart client can be preprocessed and compressed in order to remove all unnecessary personal information, thereby reducing the bandwidth requirements on the telecommunication network. Further, the proposed solution enables to raise statistics on road usage, i.e. traffic appearance by road-section without endangering privacy of the individual road users.

A method for collecting tolls for location usages of an on-board unit, which has a unit identifier in a road toll system and a mobile telecommunications identifier in a mobile telecommunications network. The method includes storing the unit identifier and the mobile telecommunications identifier of the on-board unit in a control centre of the road toll system, sending the position-fix data from the on-board unit, under the mobile telecommunications identifier as sole identification, to a toll calculation server, calculating location-anonymised toll data in the toll calculation server, and sending said toll data under the mobile telecommunications identifier to a control centre of the mobile telecommunications network, charging a user account assigned to the mobile telecommunications identifier in the control centre of the mobile telecommunications network, sending a confirmation to the control centre of the road toll system under the mobile telecommunications identifier, and retrieving the unit identifier associated with the mobile telecommunications identifier and providing the confirmation in the control centre of the road toll system.

The invention relates to methods that create and update a centralized and searchable database of lenders' underwriting and pricing guidelines that can be utilized by the consumer and to a system that matches the consumer's qualifications and needs to the best available loan products with associated rate pricing.

A toll system for a set of road portions where tolls are set on a per vehicle and per journey basis. Each time a given vehicle plans to take a journey the tolls are computed for that vehicle and for that journey, and the amount of the tolls are set based, at least in part, on the characteristics of the vehicle and / or the planned journey. This can incentivize more socially desirable traffic flows.

The invention provides an urban road intelligent parking management system and belongs to the technical field of road management. The system can be applied to parking lots having a plurality of preset parking places. The system includes: a plurality of data acquiring apparatuses which are in remote connection to one server; a user end which is in remote connection to the server and is intended for enabling a user to check the parking lines of a preset parking space where a vehicle parks, to order a preset parking space and to pay parking fee; the user end transmitting the pre-payment information to the server so as to perform automatic parking fee payment upon leaving. According to the invention, the system has the following advantages: makes parking charging more scientific, facilitates fee charging and payment, subsequently reduces revenue loss, improves information sharing, makes working properties more stable, increases the efficiency of regulation and control, has broader application, can effectively save public resources, and creates social benefits.

A lane-level vehicle routing and navigation apparatus includes a simulation module that performs microsimulation of individual vehicles in a traffic stream, and a lane-level optimizer that evaluates conditions along the candidate paths from an origin to a destination as determined by the simulation module, and determines recommended lane-level maneuvers along the candidate paths. A link-level optimizer may determines the candidate paths based on link travel times determined by the simulation module. The simulation may be based on real-time traffic condition data. Recommended candidate paths may be provided to delivery or service or emergency response vehicles, or used for evacuation planning, or to route vehicles such as garbage or postal trucks, or snowplows. Corresponding methods also may be used for traffic planning and management, including determining, based on microsimulation, at least one of (a) altered road geometry, (b) altered traffic signal settings, such as traffic signal timing, or (c) road pricing.

The invention relates to methods and systems for presenting a consumer with available loan products with associated pricing comprising comparing the consumer profile to available lender loan products, and optimizing available loan products based upon the consumer criteria, by matching the consumer's qualifications and needs to the best available loan products with associated rate pricing, including combining a plurality of loan products from a single or plurality of lenders to give a consumer a best available loan product.

A route is set by reading map data of an area used for calculating the route. When this area includes a road pricing area, it is determined if there exists a road pricing area into where the user is permitted to enter based on the permission data (road pricing area to where the entrance is permitted and the permission period) read out from an IC card inserted in an ERP car-mounted unit and stored in a storage unit. When there exists a road pricing area to where the entrance is permitted, the road pricing area is excluded from the areas to be avoided, and the route is calculated.

The universal road tool system includes a tool centre at least a toll gate and at least two entrance and exit lane subsystems. The said toll center is connected with toll gate via WAN while the toll gate is connected to the entrance and exit lane subsystems via LAN. The toll collecting center has resident toll data definition creating program based on vehicle type, distance, unit price, tunnel and bridge number and vehicle tonnage. The present invention solves the problem of calculating toll with several tunnels and bridges and has two automatically changed rates, is universal and can reduce the labor strength of the managers.

A rectangular region based method for quickly positioning road bus points belong to is a method for quickly positioning urban buses to road sections. The method is characterized by comprising the steps of firstly conducting primary gridding on an urban region, then conducting secondary gridding in each grid unit, dividing urban roads into small road sections, and respectively establishing grid and road section one-to-one correspondence relation in the corresponding primary grid and secondary grid; Due to the fact that the bus routes are formed by combining the road sections, and after we conduct road gridding, all road sections included by each bus route are recorded according to route directions and saved in a database, then bus position data are positioned according to the grids the data belong to, finally each of the bus position data corresponds to the corresponding grid, the road sections the buses belong to are obtained, and the mileages from a previous station to a next station and a destination station are further obtained according to the precedence relation of the road sections included in the routes.

A vehicular traffic control server includes monitoring means, tariff adjusting means in communication with the monitoring means, and notifying means in communication with the tariff adjusting means. The monitoring means is configured to monitor at least one traffic congestion parameter of a roadway having a road tariff. The tariff adjusting means is configured to adjust the road tariff in accordance with the monitored traffic congestion parameter. The notifying means is configured to notify at least one motorist of the adjusted road tariff.

A system and method maximize profits by determining the optimal combination of sale price for a product and bids for advertising. The system and method address the non-linear relationship between product pricing and advertising through an advertising bidding system. In particular, a seller sells a product at a plurality of sale prices and buys the at least one advertisement by submitting a plurality of bid prices to the at least one advertising venue, resulting in a combination of bid prices for the at least one advertisement at each of the plurality of sale prices. Data from advertising with each of the at least one advertisement is collected. Then, a non-linear model for pricing and bidding is determined from the collected data, and an optimal price for the product and an optimal advertising bid for each of the at least one advertisement is determined from the non-linear model.

The invention provides a Beidou satellite positioning urban congestion road toll collection method and system. The method comprises the steps that step 101) position information of a vehicle is acquired; and step 102) a toll collection mode of the current position is judged according to the position of the vehicle, and toll collection from the vehicle is performed according to the determined toll collection mode, wherein the toll collection mode include toll collection according to times, toll collection according to mileage, toll collection according to time, cross-rate-interval toll collection according to mileage or cross-rate-interval toll collection according to time. The toll collection strategies are more flexible, different toll collection strategies can be adopted according to the degree of congestion of urban congestion roads, and different toll rates can be set for various toll collection strategies according to different toll collection time periods so that applicability is wider.

A method for trusted recording in a road toll system, the road toll system having a proxy server connected via a mobile network to an onboard-unit of a vehicle, the onboard-unit having a position determination device, comprising: creating an itinerary record comprising a first or second position, a first or second point of time at least one of: a distance calculated using at least the first and second position, a segment-id, and a distance calculated using said segment-id; receiving and recording a signed itinerary record from the proxy server. In a further aspect of the embodiment an onboard-unit and a proxy server are provided for trusted recording in a road toll system.

A method, a system and a computer program product are directed towards determination of a variable toll for a particular target vehicle using a particular point-to-point travel segment of a particular toll road. The variable toll is calculated predicated upon a deviation of an instantaneous point-to-point traffic volume for the particular target vehicle exiting the toll road in comparison with an arbitrarily determined baseline point-to-point traffic volume. The instantaneous point-to-point traffic volume includes vehicles traveling at least a portion of the same point-to-point travel segment as the target vehicle during an effective time interval when the target vehicle traveled the point-to-point travel segment.