EP0966733B1 - Dispositif d'information routiere - Google Patents

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EP0966733B1
EP0966733B1 EP98914897A EP98914897A EP0966733B1 EP 0966733 B1 EP0966733 B1 EP 0966733B1 EP 98914897 A EP98914897 A EP 98914897A EP 98914897 A EP98914897 A EP 98914897A EP 0966733 B1 EP0966733 B1 EP 0966733B1
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08G—TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
    • G08G1/00—Traffic control systems for road vehicles
    • G08G1/09—Arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions
    • G08G1/0962—Arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions having an indicator mounted inside the vehicle, e.g. giving voice messages
    • G08G1/0968—Systems involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle
    • G08G1/096805—Systems involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle where the transmitted instructions are used to compute a route
    • G08G1/096811—Systems involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle where the transmitted instructions are used to compute a route where the route is computed offboard
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08G—TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
    • G08G1/00—Traffic control systems for road vehicles
    • G08G1/09—Arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions
    • G08G1/0962—Arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions having an indicator mounted inside the vehicle, e.g. giving voice messages
    • G08G1/0968—Systems involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle
    • G08G1/096833—Systems involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle where different aspects are considered when computing the route
    • G08G1/096838—Systems involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle where different aspects are considered when computing the route where the user preferences are taken into account or the user selects one route out of a plurality
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08G—TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
    • G08G1/00—Traffic control systems for road vehicles
    • G08G1/09—Arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions
    • G08G1/0962—Arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions having an indicator mounted inside the vehicle, e.g. giving voice messages
    • G08G1/0968—Systems involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle
    • G08G1/096877—Systems involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle where the input to the navigation device is provided by a suitable I/O arrangement
    • G08G1/096888—Systems involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle where the input to the navigation device is provided by a suitable I/O arrangement where input information is obtained using learning systems, e.g. history databases

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  • the present invention relates to devices traffic information.
  • EP-A-760 507 Known devices of this type (see for example EP-A-760 507) are presented in the form of fixed luminous display panels, which display an estimated journey time between, hand, the place where they are located, and on the other hand, one or several other predetermined points on the road network.
  • documents FR-A-2 726 382 and WO-A-96 17315 describe on-board "navigation" systems on board vehicles but these systems are complex and expensive, and do not inform the user about the times of actual journey.
  • the object of the present invention is in particular to provide a bearing to these disadvantages.
  • the present invention is intended to inform motorists in relation to journey times in a road network which can be for example but so nonlimiting, a peripheral urban highway 1 such than that shown in Figure 1.
  • This urban highway can present for example two sets of lanes 2, 3 in traffic direction opposites, which in the rest of the presentation will be called interior peripheral and peripheral respectively outside.
  • the inner device 2 and the outer device 3 are each subdivided into a plurality of sections 4 separated from each other by entry / exit points 5 which in this case will be called "doors" and which may be common to interior peripherals 2 and outside 3.
  • Each section 4 therefore includes a starting point constituted by a door 5, and an arrival point constituted through another door 5.
  • sensors 6 are provided which can in particular be integrated into the roadway or attached to gantries above of the road, and which measure for example the speed average vehicle movement.
  • Measurements by sensors 6 are grouped in a central station IT 7, by wire or radio links.
  • This central station 7 is connected to one or more 8 fixed paging base stations where it can possibly constitute itself a base station fixed pager, to send radio messages predetermined including relative digital information basic vehicle travel times on each of sections 4 of the road network 1.
  • the radio messages in question can be coded for example according to the European standard "ERMES” (Directives C.E.E. 85/374 and 92/59) or according to any other protocol unilateral or possibly radiotelephony radio messaging.
  • ERMES European standard
  • Directions C.E.E. 85/374 and 92/59 or according to any other protocol unilateral or possibly radiotelephony radio messaging.
  • radio messages are sent at intervals of regular times by fixed base station 8, for example every three minutes.
  • these predetermined radio messages are transmitted among other carrier radio messages either general information, either personalized messages intended to be consulted later by their recipients on portable paging receivers.
  • Radio messages carrying relative information to travel times are received by users on 10 portable paging receivers such than the one shown in figure 2 or if necessary on radio telephones with paging functionality.
  • microprocessor 21 can advantageously be connected to a card reader 38 adapted to communicate with a portable memory card 37 ( Figure 2).
  • the card reader 38 can be used for example to operate the central unit 21 according to a program for exploiting relative radio messages journey times on road network 1 (i.e. loading this program into the central unit 21, either by allowing the central processing unit 21 to execute this program at the very inside of Map 37), as explained in the French patent application No. 97 02857 filed March 11 1997.
  • the card reader 38 can also be used to authorize or not the exploitation of radio messages relating to network travel times road 1, according to a validity data (number units representing a certain amount of money paid in advance, or subscription deadline) which is read in Map 37, for example as taught in the application French patent n ° 97 02856 filed March 11 1997.
  • the microprocessor 21 recognizes in this message a number which is specific to receiver 10, and it stores this message in memory 23 by simultaneously pressing the buzzer 24 and / or the buzzer 25, so that the user is notified of the arrival of a message which the concerned.
  • This user can then view this message on screen 11, then if necessary erase it from memory 23.
  • the microprocessor 21 recognizes this message by the identification field contained in said message or by an address contained in this message and common to all receivers 10 authorized to use radio messages relating to journey time on the road network 1.
  • the microprocessor neither activates the buzzer 24 or buzzer 25, but on the contrary is satisfied to store the information thus received in a part of the memory 23 dedicated to traffic information.
  • Travel time digital data and the accessibility data is thus updated regularly in memory 23.
  • the road network topology data 1 can also be updated from time to other, when 4 sections of the road network are newly created, or when such sections 4 are newly integrated into the road information system.
  • This update of the topology data can be done by radio messages or possibly by reading a memory card 37 if the receiver 10 is provided with a memory card reader 38, or by any other way.
  • the user of the receiver 10 When the user of the receiver 10 wants to be informed on a journey time in the road network 1, it begins by selecting and validating a corresponding option in the general menu that appears on screen 11 to the switching on of the receiver 10, which brings up on screen 11 the display presented in FIG. 4.
  • the user selects the desired icon using the keys 14, which then illuminates said icon in a way different from other icons (in the example shown in FIG. 4, icon 27 is selected), then he confirms his choice with the 15 key.
  • the central unit 20 then presents on screen 11 a display like that of figure 5 initially without the text boxes indicating "A” and "Mute” on the said figure 5.
  • a square 32 which schematically indicates the position of the gate 5 corresponding to the starting point, on the ring road exterior 3.
  • the user validates the choice of his point starting point by means of the validation key 15, at the following which appears on the screen a new area of text 33 which also displays the name of a door 5 in the occurrence "Mute", below another area of text including the word "to" to indicate that the second door name corresponds to the end point desired by the user of the housing 10.
  • the microprocessor 21 then appears on screen 11 the display shown in Figure 6, which indicates doors 5 corresponding respectively to the point of departure and arrival point desired, and the time of estimated journey between these departure and arrival points, in the occurrence 9 min.
  • This estimated journey time is calculated by the microprocessor 21 as the sum of the journey times elementary on the various sections 4 constituting the journey between the desired departure and arrival points.
  • the display shown in the figure 6 can advantageously also show the plan schematic 30 of the external device 3, with the squares 32 and 34 positioning the starting and ending points.
  • the display shown in Figure 6 also includes preferably a visual representation of the path to travel between the start and end points.
  • This visual representation is in this case constituted by a strip 35 lying between two horizontal lines, this strip 35 being marked out with symbols 36 representing the different doors 5 between the point of start and end point, and said strip 35 having a different aspect depending on the fluidity of the sections 4 of the road network located between the corresponding gates to symbols 36.
  • sections where traffic speed average is greater than 60 km / h are shown in white, the sections where the traffic speed is between 40 and 60 km / h are shown in dotted lines, and the sections where the traffic speed is less than 40 km / h are blackened.
  • the display shown in Figure 6 can optionally further include related information accessibility of sections 4 and doors 5 between the point of departure and the point of arrival desired.
  • sections 4 or doors 5 closed to the public may be marked with a symbol in the form of "X".
  • microprocessor 21 displays on the screen 11 a warning message such as "blocked traffic" instead of the estimated journey time.
  • the display shown in Figure 6 can possibly also display a message such than "?” or "invalid data" when the digital data used to calculate the journey time are too old.
  • the memory 23 can include, for each section 4 of the road network, the date and time at which the elementary journey time and / or speed average traffic on this section has been updated for the last time.
  • the microprocessor 21 checks that the updates of the various sections 4 between this starting point and this end point are not too old.
  • the microprocessor 21 will appear the aforementioned warning message "invalid data" or "?” if the data relating to one of the sections 4 between the point of departure and the point of arrival has not been updated for more than half an hour.
  • the memory 23 could include only a date and time for updating for the whole sections 4, if the relative numerical data all sections 4 are updated at the same time each radio message received.
  • microprocessor 21 is advantageously designed to cyclically update the last estimated travel time T0 viewed by the user, by example for 15 minutes after the end of the last user consultation.
  • the microprocessor 21 compares the initially estimated journey time T0 corresponding to the last user consultation, at the same time path T updated, and said microprocessor operates buzzer 24 and / or buzzer 25 when the difference ⁇ T between these two times becomes greater than a value predetermined value, which predetermined value can be a absolute value (for example 5 min) or a relative value (for example 20% of T0).
  • the operation of the device 10 is similar to that previously described if the user selects and validates the icon 26 corresponding to the interior device 2.
  • microprocessor 21 immediately display a presentation like the one in figure 6, by giving the updated journey time corresponding to the last consultation made by the user.
  • the initial storage of a particular trip can be performed for example when the screen presents the display shown in Figure 6, by pressing then on button 13 special functions, which makes a memory menu will appear.
  • the central unit 21 calculates the respective journey times between departure points and on the one hand, by the inner ring road 2, and on the other hand, by the external device 3, the two estimated journey times are thus presented to the user on screen 11.
  • the microprocessor 21 could thus calculate the two corresponding journey times at the two possible routes between the points of departure and arrival desired, respectively by the device inside 2 and through the outside device 3, but said central unit would only display the time of minimum journey indicating whether this minimum journey time corresponds to inner device 2 or device exterior 3.
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PCT/FR1998/000494 WO1998041961A1 (fr) 1997-03-14 1998-03-11 Dispositif d'information routiere

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