Patent ID: 8710955

Claim:
An automated gate system (AGS) for a unified gate layout, comprising: a single portal receiving and processing vehicles comprising ingress and egress traffic as a common traffic flow moving in a same direction sharing a same access road, the single portal obtaining and processing information relating to vehicles passing therethrough; a multi-lane gated sub-system having associated kiosks providing interface for obtaining vehicles and driver related information and each of the kiosks having a combined inbound/outbound gate for controlling ingress and egress movement of vehicles of the common traffic flow moving in a same direction into and out of a controlled access facility; and a computer system for receiving signals from the portal and the kiosks, the signals representing a status of the vehicles alone or in combination with driver information and processing the signals to control operations of one or more gates traversing ingress and egress routes for the controlled access facility, the computer system including a program embodied on a non-transitory computer storage medium for controlling gate operation of each of the gates and thereby controlling both ingress and egress routes and controlling both ingress and egress movement of the vehicles to and from the controlled access facility, thereby the computer system receives information from the single portal and controls the gate operations of each of the gates in the multi-lane gated sub-system.