US 2009/0024309 A1Published application

System and method for monitoring vehicles on a roadway

AssigneeCrucs Holdings, LLC

InventorKevin M. CRUCS

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Abstract

A system and method for tracking and monitoring vehicles on a roadway. RFID tags are positioned along the roadway and may be interrogated by vehicles equipped with an RFID scanner and a transceiver as the vehicles encounter the RFID tags along the roadway. The RFID tag information received by the RFID scanner is transmitted by the transceiver to a roadside repeater station which in turn sends the RFID tag information, as well as other identifying information, to a remote central tracking station. The remote central tracking station processes the RFID tag information and other information to determine a current position of a corresponding vehicle. Driver ranking profiles may be generated for drivers of vehicles and stored in a database in the central tracking station. The driver ranking profiles are used to restrict drivers in certain ways.

Claims68

Dependent claims

A system for monitoring vehicles on a roadway, said system comprising:

a plurality of RFID tags affixed at various pre-designated locations along a roadway, wherein each of said RFID tags is encoded with RFID tag information that may be used to determine a physical location of any of said RFID tags on said roadway;
a first RFID scanner installed on a first vehicle to wirelessly interrogate said RFID tags as said first vehicle travels on said roadway and/or to wirelessly receive said RFID tag information from said RFID tags as said first vehicle encounters any of said RFID tags on said roadway;
a first transceiver installed in said first vehicle and operatively connected to said first RFID scanner to receive said RFID tag information from said first RFID scanner and to re-encode and transmit at least said RFID tag information wirelessly as at least a first RF signal;
at least one roadside repeater station to wirelessly receive at least said first RF signal from said first transceiver and to re-transmit the information encoded in at least said first RF signal;
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a remote central tracking station to receive and process at least said re-transmitted information from said roadside repeater station in order to at least track a position of at least said first vehicle on said roadway.

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A method to generate a driver ranking profile for a roadway system, said method comprising:

assigning a first driver identification code to a first driver;
assigning at least one type or class of vehicle that said first driver is authorized to drive on said roadway system;
assigning hours of the day that said first driver is authorized to drive on said roadway system for each said vehicle type or class that said first driver is authorized to drive on said roadway system;
assigning types of lanes that said first driver is authorized to drive in on said roadway system for each said vehicle type or class that said first driver is authorized to drive on said roadway system;
assigning a speed limit that said first driver is obligated to adhere to while driving on said roadway system for each said vehicle type or class that said first driver is authorized to drive on said roadway system;
storing said first driver identification code, said assigned type or class of vehicle for said first driver, said assigned hours for said first driver, said assigned types of lanes for said first driver, and said assigned speed limit for said first driver in a database;
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associating said assigned type or class of vehicle for said first driver, said assigned hours for said first driver, said assigned types of lanes for said first driver, and said assigned speed limit for said first driver with said first driver identification code within said database to form a first driver ranking profile within said database.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/778,129Filed 16 Jul 2007
Published: 22 Jan 2009
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G08G 1/015
Detecting movement of traffic to be counted or controlled: with provision for distinguishing between two or more types of vehicles, e.g. between…
B60R 25/241
Using electronic identifiers containing a code not memorised by the user: whereby access privileges are related to the identifiers
G07C 5/0841
Registering or indicating performance data other than driving, working, idle, or waiting time, with or without registering driving, working,…
G07C 9/27
Involving the use of a pass: with central registration