Patent ID: 7375648
Filing Date: 2008-05-20
Classification: G08G

Abstract:
1. A system for analysis and management of managed lane vehicle traffic along a roadway comprising: a plurality of roadway transceivers positioned adjacent to the roadway, each of said roadway transceivers in communication with vehicles traveling on the roadway; a plurality of transponders, each of said transponders located in separate ones of the vehicles traveling on the roadway, each of said transponders including a data processor, memory and a vehicle transceiver, intercoupled such that communication from said roadway transceivers can be received, and processed in said data processor, and said vehicle transceivers can communicate vehicle information to said roadway transceivers; and said memory operable for receiving passenger identification information received from each passenger traveling in vehicles traveling on the roadway and for storing data representing the number of passengers traveling in said separate ones of the vehicles traveling on the roadway for transmission to said plurality of roadway transceivers upon interrogation of a vehicle transponder.