Patent ID: 7493208

Claim:
An apparatus for monitoring traffic, comprising: a vehicle position determination device configured to determine a position of a vehicle in substantially real time; a wireless transceiver coupled to the vehicle position determination device and configured to transmit a first signal to a remote computer and to receive a second signal from the remote computer, the first signal representing the position of the vehicle, the second signal representing an indication that a position of a traffic affecting event is within a vicinity of the position of the vehicle; and an indication device coupled to the wireless transceiver and configured to indicate the indication in response to the wireless transceiver receiving the second signal; wherein the remote computer is configured to receive the first signal from the wireless transceiver and a third signal from a traffic monitoring system, to determine if the position of the traffic affecting event is within the vicinity of the position of the vehicle, and to transmit the second signal to the wireless transceiver, the third signal representing the position of the traffic affecting event.