Patent ID: 8660867
Filing Date: 2014-02-25
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A system for providing an automated transportation use and billing system comprising: one or more computing processors; and one or memories coupled to the one or more computing processors, the one or more memories having instructions stored therein which, when executed by the one or more processors, perform: monitoring the geographical location of a user mobile computing system associated with a user and obtain user geographical location/position data; obtaining transportation geographical location/position data associated with a public transportation system element; analyzing the user geographical location/position data, geographical locations of transportation infrastructure, and the transportation geographical location/position data to determine that the user and the public transportation element are at a location only available to be used by the transportation element, thus determining when the user makes use of the public transportation system element, the analyzed geographical locations of transportation infrastructure at least including the geographical locations of train tracks; and charging, as a direct result of determining that the user and the public transportation element are at a location only used by the transportation element, the user for the determined use of the public transportation system element.