Patent ID: 8044824

Claim:
An electronic barrier and enforcement system comprising: a processor; a memory; and a plurality of sensing devices located along one or more lanes of travel of a roadway system and operably connected to the processor, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of sensing devices are configured to detect a presence of each of one or more vehicles in the one or more lanes of the roadway system, and wherein the at least a portion of the plurality of sensing devices are configured to transmit an output indicative of the presence of each of the one or more vehicles in a designated segment in the one or more lanes of the roadway system to the processor; one or more identity devices operably connected to the processor, wherein the one or more identity devices are configured to identify each of said one or more vehicles detected by each of the at least a portion of the plurality of sensing devices, and wherein the one or more identity devices are configured to transmit the identity of each vehicle detected by each of the at least a portion of the plurality of sensing devices to the processor; wherein said processor is configured to determine whether one of said one or more vehicles that is detected adjacent a first position by a first sensing device of the at least a portion of the plurality of sensing devices is also detected adjacent a second position by at least a second sensing device of the at least a portion of the plurality of sensing devices, wherein the first sensing device is an entrance sensing device located proximate the first position for detecting the one or more vehicles entering a the designated segment of the said one or more lanes of travel of the roadway system and the second sensing device is an exit sensing device located proximate the second position for detecting the one or more vehicles exiting the designated segment of the said one or more lanes of travel of the roadway system, and wherein, if one of said one or more vehicles that is detected by the entrance sensing device is not detected by the exit sensing device or if one of said one or more vehicles that is detected by the exit sensing device is not detected by the entrance sensing device, then the one of said one or more vehicles has committed a prohibited lane change, and the identity of the one of said one or more vehicles is recorded in the memory by the processor for use in automated issuance of a citation against a person identified with the one of said one or more vehicles.