Patent ID: 7999701

Claim:
A transportation notification system comprising: at least one vehicle for transporting people as passengers; a transceiver unit within said at least vehicle comprising a wireless communication means wherein said wireless communication means within said transceiver unit is at least one connection to a mobile telephone network, wherein said connection to said mobile telephone network comprises at least one removable mobile telephone network module; wherein said at least one removable mobile telephone network module contains an electrical connector means to accept electrical power and signals; wherein said transceiver unit further comprises a plurality of expansion slots dimensioned to accept said at least one removable mobile telephone network module; wherein said slots comprise a second electrical connector means dimensioned to accept a first electrical connector means; whereby a desired number of said removable mobile telephone network modules may be added and removed from said transceiver unit to adjust the amount of said data that said transceiver unit is capable of transferring, a satellite navigation system receiver to acquire the location of said at least one vehicle, a memory storage device for storing map and vehicle route information, at least one display means for presenting information to a vehicle driver, and at least one Central Processing Unit (CPU) interfaced to said memory storage device, to said wireless communication means, and to said satellite navigation system receiver, wherein said transceiver unit transfers data regarding a location of said at least one vehicle relative to a plurality of passenger pick-up and drop-off locations; a plurality of household units located proximate to said pick-up and drop-off locations comprising at least one means for sending and receiving data regarding passenger status and said vehicles impending arrival at said pick-up and drop-off locations, at least one display means, and at least one CPU controllably interfaced to said means for sending and receiving data and to display means.