Patent ID: 6137425
Filing Date: 2000-10-24
Classification: G08G

Abstract:
A waiting time prediction system for visualizing waiting times until the arrival of at least one vehicle (2), in particular a vehicle of the public transit system, at at least one station stop (5), characterized bya first device for determining position data of the vehicle (2),a second device for calculating the remaining expected driving time until arrival of the vehicle (2) at the station stop (5) based on the measured position data of the vehicle (2) and the known coordinates of the station stop (5),first and second transmission means for transmitting information from the first device to the second device and from the second device to a station stop display (4), wherein the station stop display (4) can be controlled by the second transmission means to indicate the waiting time, andan external read-only monitoring station (19) connected to a center location (3) via ISDN (16) or via the Internet for monitoring purposes, including remote malfunction diagnostics.