EP0609411B1 - Wartezeitinformationssystem für fahrgäste an bushaltestellen - Google Patents

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EP0609411B1
EP0609411B1 EP93916018A EP93916018A EP0609411B1 EP 0609411 B1 EP0609411 B1 EP 0609411B1 EP 93916018 A EP93916018 A EP 93916018A EP 93916018 A EP93916018 A EP 93916018A EP 0609411 B1 EP0609411 B1 EP 0609411B1
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    • G08G1/00—Traffic control systems for road vehicles
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  • the invention relates to devices for inform users of bus networks on times waiting for buses at the stops of these networks.
  • This "average speed” parameter is generally a fixed data recorded once and for all in computing devices considered.
  • Corrections can therefore be introduced systematically to correct the average speed entered in the receiving organs of the information system so as to take account of said foreseeable factors.
  • the invention aims, above all, to remedy these last drawbacks.
  • the above type of information devices are essentially characterized in that said actual past average bus speed is determined from at least two such average speeds, corresponding to two different periods. prior to the given instant considered, in that the number of past average speeds is equal to two, namely V 1 and V 2 , calculated respectively over a relatively long time and over a relatively short time just prior to the given instant considered , and in that the past average speed used for the calculation is a weighted average speed which is equal to ⁇ V 1 + ⁇ V 2 , formula in which ⁇ and ⁇ are two constants, and in that the calculation means are arranged so to favor more and more the average speed V 2 corresponding to the shortest time progressively as the actual instantaneous distance between the "next autob us "and the judgment under consideration.
  • the invention includes, apart from these arrangements main, certain other provisions which preferably used at the same time and which will be more explicitly question below.
  • the single figure in this drawing shows very schematically a bus traveling on its line in direction of the next stop included on this line as well that a user information system established in accordance to the invention.
  • This bus 1 is shown in solid lines in the position it occupies at an instant T 0 which will be assumed to be that of the display, an instant at which we position our to describe the present information device.
  • Said bus is also represented in broken lines, respectively in 1 1 and in 1 2 , in two positions situated respectively at distances D 1 and D 2 behind the position which it occupies at the instant T 0 and on which we will come back later.
  • the information system essentially comprises a central unit 3 provided with a transmitting-receiving antenna 4.
  • This central receives information from each bus 1, during its progression according to arrow F on the line of the urban transport network considered.
  • This information transmitted to antenna 4 under the electromagnetic wave 5, in particular allow to determine at all times the distance d which separates the bus 1 from the next stop 2 called to be served by him.
  • This distance d is one of the pieces of information that are in turn transmitted, in particular in the form of electromagnetic waves 6, to a receiver 7 located at stop station 2.
  • the receiver 7 which team station 2 includes means for receive and decode signals 6, select from the data in these signals or calculate at from this data the next wait time bus 1 at stop 2 and display this waiting time.
  • said past bus speed is that V 1 with which the bus 1 itself, concerned with the display, has progressed for a time T 1 preceding the theoretical time T 0 d 'interrogation and / or with which he traveled the length D 1 located just behind him.
  • this past real average speed V 1 is considered to be the future real average speed of bus 1 until stop 2.
  • the determination of said speed V 1 can for example be carried out - at the level of the central unit 3 or preferably at that of each receiver 7, in order to lighten the telecommunications - by giving a priori the time T 1 and by measuring the distance D 1 traveled during this time T 1 from position data, relating to bus 1, detected and recorded successively, or on the contrary by giving a priori the distance D 1 , determined as above, and by measuring the duration T 1 required to cover this distance.
  • account will be taken of two past average speeds V 1 and V 2 corresponding respectively to a relatively long time T 1 and to a relatively short time T 2 or, which amounts to the same thing, to a relatively large distance D 1 and to a relatively small distance D 2 .
  • the time T 1 can be between 10 and 20 minutes, being typically equal to 15 minutes and corresponding on average to a travel distance D 1 of the order of 3 kilometers and the time T 2 can be between 30 seconds and 5 minutes, the corresponding distance D 2 then being between 50 and 500 meters.
  • the first V 1 relating to a long duration, is not fundamentally distorted by the unexpected slowdowns or the successive stops of the buses, in particular at the various stations which they serve as well as at the traffic lights and gives a relatively faithful picture of the difficulties in progressing the bus during the interrogation period, but it has the disadvantage precisely of generally incorporating several of these slowdowns or stops.
  • the second V 2 relating to a short duration, is more exact and all the more exact as the distance d between the bus 1 and the stop 2 shortens, but it is more distorted than the previous one by possible decelerations or bus stops.
  • the average speed V 1 relative to the long period is advantageously favored, making in particular ⁇ equal to 1 and ⁇ to 0.
  • the receiver 7 is made to understand means for favoring speed V 2 as the bus 1 approaches stop 2, the coefficient ⁇ being progressively increased to unity at the expense of the coefficient ⁇ , which preferably remains constantly equal to 1- ⁇ .
  • This actual average speed detected for the previous bus can completely replace one actual past average speeds calculated for the expected bus.
  • This information system has many advantages over those previously known, in particularly that of allowing a relatively exact bus wait times to display, these time taking into account the real difficulties encountered by buses expected during their progress.

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  1. Einrichtung zum Informieren der Benutzer eines Omnibus-Netzes über die Omnibus-Wartezeiten an den Haltestellen dieses Netzes, einerseits umfassend eine Sender-Gesamtheit (3-6) zum Ausarbeiten elektrischer Signale, die für den Abstand (d) zwischen jedem auf einer Linie des Netzes verkehrenden Omnibus (1) und der "nächsten" von diesem Omnibus angefahrenen Haltestelle (2) repräsentativ sind, und zum Senden dieser Signale, und andererseits umfassend Empfangsorgane (7), die wenigstens einer Haltestelle zugeordnet und derart gestaltet sind, daß sie die Signale empfangen, daß sie aus diesen Signalen diejenigen auswählen, die die Haltestelle direkt oder nicht betreffen, daß sie ausgehend von den derart ausgewählten Signalen Daten bezüglich der Wartezeiten für jeden ,,nächsten" Omnibus ausarbeiten, und daß sie die Daten anzeigen, wobei die fraglichen Wartezeiten mit den obigen Abständen über einen Parameter zusammenhängen, der die für den betroffenen Omnibus geschätzte zukünftige "Durchschnittsgeschwindigkeit" zwischen seiner tatsächlichen Position an einem jeweiligen gegebenen Zeitpunkt und der Position der betroffenen Haltestelle bestmöglich repräsentieren soll, und der auf einer vorher gemessenen und gespeicherten, zurückliegenden tatsächlichen Omnibus-Durchschnittsgeschwindigkeit basiert, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die zurückliegende tatsächliche Omnibus-Durchschnittsgeschwindigkeit ausgehend von wenigstens zwei solchen Durchschnittsgeschwindigkeiten bestimmt ist, welche zwei verschiedenen Zeiträumen entsprechen, die vor dem betrachteten gegebenen Zeitpunkt liegen, daß die Zahl der zurückliegenden Durchschnittsgeschwindigkeiten gleich zwei ist, nämlich V1 und V2, welche in einem verhältnismäßig langen bzw. in einem verhältnismäßig kurzen Zeitraum unmittelbar vor dem betrachteten gegebenen Zeitpunkt berechnet werden, daß die für die Berechnung erhaltene zurückliegende Durchschnittsgeschwindigkeit eine gewichtete Durchschnittsgeschwindigkeit ist, die gleich αV1 + βV2 ist, in welcher Formel α und β zwei Konstanten sind, und daß die Berechnungsmittel derart gestaltet sind, daß sie die dem kürzesten Zeitraum entsprechende Durchschnittsgeschwindigkeit V2 im Verlauf der Verringerung des momentanen tatsächlichen Abstands zwischen dem ,,nächsten Omnibus" und der betrachteten Haltestelle immer stärker gewichten.
  2. Einrichtung nach Anspruch 1, bei der die Summe α + β gleich 1 ist.
  3. Informationseinrichtung nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die der Berechnung der zwei zurückliegenden Durchschnittsgeschwindigkeiten V1 und V2 entsprechenden Zeiträume in der Größenordnung zwischen 10 und 20 Minuten für den ersten Zeitraum und in der Größenordnung zwischen 30 Sekunden und 5 Minuten für den zweiten Zeitraum liegen.
  4. Informationseinrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, in der eine der zurückliegenden Omnibus-Durchschnittsgeschwindigkeiten, die zum Zweck der Berechnung der Wartezeiten für einen jeweiligen Omnibus (1) an einer gegebenen Haltestelle (2) ausgenützt wird, die tatsächliche Durchschnittsgeschwindigkeit ist, die für wenigstens einen dem Omnibus vorhergehenden Omnibus ermittelt und gespeichert worden ist.
  5. Ein tragbarer Empfängerkasten, welcher einen der Empfänger (7) bildet, der in der Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4 enthalten ist.
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