Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
  • G07B15/00—Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points
  • G07B15/06—Arrangements for road pricing or congestion charging of vehicles or vehicle users, e.g. automatic toll systems
  • G07B15/063—Arrangements for road pricing or congestion charging of vehicles or vehicle users, e.g. automatic toll systems using wireless information transmission between the vehicle and a fixed station
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
  • G07C5/00—Registering or indicating the working of vehicles
  • G07C5/08—Registering or indicating performance data other than driving, working, idle, or waiting time, with or without registering driving, working, idle or waiting time
  • G07C5/0841—Registering performance data
  • G07C5/085—Registering performance data using electronic data carriers

Definitions

• the invention relates to a device in a vehicle
• This device comprises an electronic accounting device carried in the respective vehicle, which continuously receives data sent from outside for determining the geographical vehicle position (e.g. satellite navigation) and evaluates it or receives position data directly (e.g. radio direction finding system).
• An essential part of the facility is a storage unit that has stored predetermined geographical positions (identification points), which uniquely characterize the individual fees
• a computing unit compares the currently determined or received vehicle position data with the position data of the identification points and can by a Decision algorithm clearly determine whether the vehicle is using a chargeable route. If a chargeable route usage is determined, the facility takes on one
• Storage medium (e.g. chip card) makes a corresponding booking by subtracting the respective route tariff from a fee credit entered in the storage medium.
• This system for in-vehicle usage accounting guarantees optimal data protection, since the booking processes and the recording of the geographical vehicle position only take place in the vehicle itself.
• the toll routes covered by a vehicle are not recorded and registered externally, since no information about the routes and the usage costs leave the vehicle.
• this would open all doors to misuse of the system, since it would not be possible to determine if a section of the route that was subject to a fee would be used by a vehicle without authorization, e.g. because the chip credit charge was no longer sufficient or was even completely used up or the facility for usage billing has been improperly shut down. There is therefore a lack of possibilities to ascertain such
• an in-vehicle toll billing system is known, with which road user charges can be levied in order to equalize the traffic density as a function of traffic congestion.
• No location information is recorded from which the current position of a vehicle could be determined. Only the distances covered, but not the travel routes, are registered.
• a route guidance system for vehicles in which the determination of the respective vehicle positions is also known
• Satellite navigation takes place. Such a system is described for example in DE 40 39 887 A1. There are no indications of a billing system for road user fees.
• tachographs e.g. EC tachographs
• the object of the invention is to develop a device of the generic type in such a way that unauthorized driving on
• Driving through vehicles equipped with a tachograph can be controlled and therefore tracked without violating data protection concerns, i.e. no data on driving behavior and any payment of user fees should be transmitted mechanically to locations outside the vehicle.
• Tachograph records are made, which then also provide information e.g. give information about any unauthorized use of a toll route. As long as there are no recognizable violations of the applicable provisions, this information will only be viewed by the person authorized for inspection. This means that no data arrives outside the vehicle that would enable external tracking of the vehicle's individual route. Only in the event of a violation of the law, i.e. if a route is traveled for which the applicable tariff has not been properly debited, will the
• Chart record of the tachograph (or, if applicable, a
• Receiving devices (based on HF, IR or ultrasound) along the routes subject to charges. With the latter devices, contact could be made automatically with the vehicles passing by and by calling up information from the
• the geographic position of the vehicle can be determined, for example, by special 5end devices running along a route network (e.g.
• Motorway network were built to be transmitted to the vehicle.
• an in-vehicle position determination based on the received signals e.g. one
• Radio direction finding system or in particular a navigation satellite system especially since this is completely independent of changes in the route network (e.g. new route construction) and can be used at any location (i.e. also on insignificant secondary routes). This also enables additional uses regardless of the control of proper payment
• Usage accounting via the data interface to the tachograph transmitted data can also be used in the context of a
• Traffic control to be able to determine whether e.g. a truck with
• Geographical information on such protected areas can also be stored, so that a corresponding signal is given to the tachograph when entering such a zone. In a corresponding manner, checks can also be carried out to ensure that the prescribed routes for dangerous goods are being observed.
• Tachograph information is to be recorded, primarily data relating to the current geographic position of the vehicle, which e.g. at specified intervals or "location-dependent" (e.g. according to specified path lengths or when passing specified ones
• This data can be directly or recorded in encrypted form by the tachograph.

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