Patent ID: 8428861

Claim:
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; and 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.