Vehicle traffic and vehicle related transaction control system

A method of vehicle movement control, comprising:

• receiving at a mobile wireless device:
• a weigh station geofence corresponding to a geographic location of a vehicle weigh station;
• and
• a compliance geofence corresponding to the vehicle weigh station;
• while the mobile wireless device is being carried by a vehicle, automatically monitoring a location of the vehicle with respect to the weigh station geofence and the compliance geofence;
• sending to a central processing system a first message from the mobile wireless device, in which the first message is automatically generated in response to the vehicle entering the weigh station geofence, the first message including vehicle related information, vehicle location information and a bypass request;
• receiving, at the mobile wireless device a bypass message from the central processing system indicating whether the vehicle is permitted to bypass the vehicle weigh station, wherein whether to send the bypass message to the mobile wireless device is automatically determined by the central processing system in response to receiving the first message;
• automatically determining a presence of the vehicle at the compliance geofence;
• and
• automatically determining, by the central processing system or the mobile wireless device, whether the vehicle complied with the bypass message based on the presence of the vehicle at the compliance geofence.

A central processing system connected to a telecommunications network, the telecommunications network also capable of being connected to at least a mobile wireless device being carried by a vehicle;

• the central processing system comprising a server having a persistent memory,
• wherein the persistent memory stores geofences comprising at least two types of geofence, and
• wherein the central processing system is configured to send, through the telecommunications network to the mobile device, a dataset defining at least two geofences of the at least two types of geofence, the at least two types of geofence including a weigh station geofence type and a compliance geofence type, wherein for each geofence of the weigh station geofence type there is a corresponding compliance geofence, and
• wherein the central processing system is configured to receive a first message from the mobile wireless device, the mobile wireless device automatically monitoring a location of the vehicle with respect to at least one geofence of the at least two types of geofence, wherein the first message is automatically generated in response to the vehicle entering a geofence of the weigh station geofence type, and the central processing system or the mobile wireless device automatically determines whether the first message has been combined with based on the presence of the vehicle at the corresponding compliance geofence.

A method of vehicle movement control, comprising:

• while a mobile wireless device is being carried in a moving vehicle, periodically obtaining a location of the mobile device by utilizing a GPS receiver on board the mobile wireless device;
• comparing, by the mobile wireless device, the location of the mobile wireless device to a set of stored geographic areas corresponding to bypass geofences that are set up on the approach lanes to weigh stations;
• when the location of the mobile wireless device is within a bypass geofence of the set of stored geographic areas, communicating vehicle information and vehicle location information from the mobile wireless device to a central processing system, in which the central processing system comprises a vehicle screening system for determining whether the vehicle should stop at the weigh station associated with the geographic area within which the mobile wireless device is located, and wherein communicating vehicle related information and vehicle location information to the central processing system comprises forwarding a bypass request;
• receiving at the mobile wireless device a bypass message from the central processing system indicating whether the vehicle is permitted to bypass the weigh station;
• monitoring, by the mobile wireless device, whether the mobile wireless device enters a geographic area corresponding to a compliance geofence associated with the weigh station;
• when the mobile wireless device determines that it has entered the compliance geofence, communicating with vehicle related information and vehicle location information from the mobile wireless device to the central processing system;
• and
• determining with the central processing system or the mobile wireless device whether the bypass message has been complied with;
• wherein the compliance geofence is situated beyond the weigh station and the determination of whether the bypass message has been complied with is based on the vehicle transit time between the bypass geofence and the compliance geofence, or
• wherein the compliance geofence is situated on a ramp of the weigh station and the determination of whether the bypass message has been complied with is based on whether or not the vehicle took the ramp of the weigh station.