Wrong way detection system
AssigneeTranscore, Inc.
InventorsRay Williams, Thuy Le, Tracy Marks
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Abstract
The Wrong Way Detection System includes detection stations deployed at each egress point along a tollway in addition to various locations along the tollway's mainline. The detection hardware communicates preferably via fiber optic network to a customized software platform housed at a centrally located Incident Management Center (IMC) of the system, where each site is monitored 24/7 in real time for wrong way vehicles. Once a vehicle is detected, operators at the IMC are able to immediately dispatch law enforcement officers and monitor the vehicle's whereabouts via CCTV cameras.
Claims15
A detection system for detecting vehicles traveling the wrong way along a roadway, the system comprising:
- a plurality of wrong way detection stations deployed at a plurality of detection sites at respective longitudinally spaced apart locations adjacent a roadway, each wrong way detection station monitoring a lane of the roadway for vehicles traveling the wrong way along the lane, said wrong way detection station detecting a vehicle traveling the wrong way along the lane and transmitting a wrong way alert upon the detection;
- a detection communicator at each of the plurality of detection sites, including the detection site with said wrong way detection station that transmitted the wrong way alert, the detection communicator communicatively coupled to said wrong way detection station to receive the wrong way alert, said detection communicator transmitting an alarm signal based on the wrong way alert;
- a receiver terminal located at a central location that receives the transmitted alarm signal from the detection communicator as a wrong way detection alarm message;
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- a special purpose computer communicatively coupled with the receiver terminal, said special purpose computer programmed by computer programming software to interface with said receiver terminal to detect the wrong way detection alarm message and monitor the vehicle traveling the wrong way that was detected by said wrong way detection station, said special purpose computer communicating the wrong way traveling vehicle whereabouts to enforcement personnel.
A method for detecting vehicles traveling the wrong way along a roadway, the method comprising:
- a) monitoring a roadway for vehicles traveling the wrong way along the roadway with a plurality of wrong way detection stations deployed at a plurality of detection sites at respective longitudinally spaced apart locations adjacent the roadway;
- b) detecting a vehicle traveling the wrong way along the lane with a detecting one of the wrong way detecting stations, and transmitting a wrong way alert upon the detection by the wrong way detection station;
- c) receiving the wrong way alert from the detecting wrong way detection station at the detection site with a detection communicator;
- d) converting the wrong way alert into an alarm signal and transmitting the alarm signal with data based on the wrong way alert;
- e) receiving the transmitted alarm signal at a central location receiver terminal remote from the detection site as a wrong way detection alarm message;
- f) detecting the wrong way detection alarm message from the receiver terminal and monitoring the vehicle traveling the wrong way that was detected by the wrong way detection station;
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- g) communicating the wrong way traveling vehicle whereabouts to enforcement personnel.
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