Patent ID: 7610146

Claim:
A vehicle positioning system for enabling a vehicle to determine its absolute position while traveling on a road, comprising: a determining system arranged on the vehicle and which determines an identity of at least one marker as the vehicle passes said at least one marker; a positioning system on the vehicle coupled to said determining system and which provides positions of markers and their identifications, such that once the identity of said at least one marker is determined and provided to said positioning system, the absolute position of said at least one marker is provided by said positioning system; and a position determining system on the vehicle and coupled to said positioning system, said position determining system being arranged to receive from said determining system the absolute position of said at least one marker whose identity is determined by said determining system, and determine the position of the vehicle relative to said at least one marker, whereby an absolute position of the vehicle can be derived from the position of the vehicle relative to said at least one marker and the absolute position of said at least one marker.