Patent ID: 7899616
Filing Date: 2011-03-01
Classification: G08G

Abstract:
1. A method for monitoring operation of vehicles, comprising: obtaining a database including data about roadways that a vehicle can travel on, the data including locations of edges of the roadways; installing the database onboard the vehicle; identifying a roadway on which the vehicle is approaching; displaying a map of the roadway that a vehicle is approaching showing a shape of the roadway, edges of the roadway, and travel lanes on the roadway; determining a defined corridor of travel for the vehicle on the roadway that the vehicle is approaching; determining a location of the vehicle with location determining equipment located onboard the vehicle; displaying an indication of the location of the vehicle in association with the map of the roadway that the vehicle is approaching; obtaining traffic control information concerning the vehicle's impending use of the roadway that the vehicle is approaching; determining a travel condition of the vehicle in consideration of the defined corridor of travel for the vehicle; determining that the traveling condition of the vehicle is unsafe for the roadway that the vehicle is approaching in consideration of the obtained traffic control information; and activating an alarm to notify an operator of the vehicle that the vehicle's traveling condition is unsafe for the roadway that the vehicle is approaching.