(19)
(11) EP 1 617 382 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
13.12.2006 Bulletin 2006/50

(43) Date of publication A2:
18.01.2006 Bulletin 2006/03

(21) Application number: 05015266.9

(22) Date of filing: 13.07.2005
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC): 
G07B 15/00(2006.01)
 G08G 1/052(2006.01)
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC NL PL PT RO SE SI SK TR
Designated Extension States:
AL BA HR MK YU

(30) Priority: 15.07.2004 IT TO20040497

(71) Applicant: Autostrade per L'Italia S.p.A.
00159 Roma (IT)

(72) Inventors:
  • Bacchi, Moreno
    50051 Castelfiorentino (Firenze) (IT)
  • Braccini, Alessandro
    50127 Firenze (IT)

(74) Representative: Deambrogi, Edgardo 
Jacobacci & Partners S.p.A. Corso Emilia, 8
10152 Torino
10152 Torino (IT)

   


(54) A system and method of determining the average time for covering a road section by motor vehicles


(57) A system and a method for determining the average time taken by vehicles to travel along road sections are described, in which a plurality of peripheral units (12, 14) distributed along a road network is used to detect the transit of vehicles by interrogating an on-board apparatus (B) of said vehicles, in particular an on-board apparatus designed for interfacing with land-based apparatus of an automatic toll collection system.
The peripheral units (12, 14) are connected to a central processing unit (20) which collects the data relating to the identification codes of the on-board apparatus (B) of the vehicles and the associated moments of transit past at least one pair of peripheral units (12, 14) and determines the average travel time of the section on the basis of the travel times of a plurality of vehicles detected passing by said peripheral units (12, 14).







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