EP 0929885 A1 19990721 - ADVANCE NOTIFICATION SYSTEM FOR USE WITH VEHICULAR TRANSPORTATION
Title (en)
ADVANCE NOTIFICATION SYSTEM FOR USE WITH VEHICULAR TRANSPORTATION
Title (de)
FRÜHWARNSYSTEM FÜR TRANSPORTFAHRZEUGE
Title (fr)
SYSTEME D'ANNONCE A L'AVANCE DESTINE A ETRE UTILISE AVEC DES VEHICULES DE TRANSPORT
Publication
Application
Priority
US 9615983 W 19961004
Abstract (en)
[origin: WO9814926A1] An advance notification system (10) and method notifies system users of the impending arrival of a transportation vehicle (19), for example, a school bus, at a particular vehicle stop. The system (10) generally includes an on-board vehicle control unit (VCU) (12) for each vehicle (19) and a base station control unit (BSCU) (14) for making telephone calls to users in order to inform the users when the vehicle (19) is a certain predefined time period and/or distance away from the vehicle stop. The VCU (12) compares elapsed time and/or travelled distance to the programmed scheduled time and/or travelled distance to determine if the vehicle (19) is on schedule. If the vehicle (19) is behind or ahead of schedule, the VCU (12) calls the BSCU (14), which then adjusts its calling schedule accordingly. Significantly, a calling report generator (11) in the BSCU (14) allows a system user to solicit a calling report from the BSCU (14) that indicates the time(s) and outcome(s) of any previous notification attempt(s) by the BSCU (14) to the user telephone (29).
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
G08G 1/123 (2006.01); G08G 9/00 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP)
G08G 1/123 (2013.01); G08G 9/00 (2013.01)
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AT BE CH DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE
DOCDB simple family (publication)
WO 9814926 A1 19980409; AT E257265 T1 20040115; AU 7391696 A 19980424; CA 2267206 A1 19980409; CA 2267206 C 20060221; DE 69631255 D1 20040205; DE 69631255 T2 20041118; EP 0929885 A1 19990721; EP 0929885 A4 20000223; EP 0929885 B1 20040102
DOCDB simple family (application)
US 9615983 W 19961004; AT 96936212 T 19961004; AU 7391696 A 19961004; CA 2267206 A 19961004; DE 69631255 T 19961004; EP 96936212 A 19961004