EP2690601B1 - Procédé de contrôle de péage et installations de contrôle de péage ainsi que le système de péage doté des installations de contrôle de péage de ce type - Google Patents

Procédé de contrôle de péage et installations de contrôle de péage ainsi que le système de péage doté des installations de contrôle de péage de ce type Download PDF

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EP2690601B1
EP2690601B1 EP13075047.4A EP13075047A EP2690601B1 EP 2690601 B1 EP2690601 B1 EP 2690601B1 EP 13075047 A EP13075047 A EP 13075047A EP 2690601 B1 EP2690601 B1 EP 2690601B1
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  • the invention relates to a control method in a toll system, as well as a vehicle-own, decentralized control device and a non-vehicle, central control device.
  • the second problem in a toll system is the control of the vehicles subject to the toll for correct collection of the toll or at least for a toll-compliant operation.
  • this control is carried out, for example, by roadside control devices that communicate wirelessly with the vehicle devices used to collect the toll and carried by the vehicles passing through the roadside control devices, in order to request and check toll information from them.
  • Toll information is understood to be information that is representative of the driving on a toll road section or a toll area by a toll vehicle.
  • This toll information can be given by a vehicle position, by an identifier of a toll road section or area subject to a toll, or by a toll that is dependent on the area or route.
  • OBU on-board unit
  • a disadvantage of all of these control methods is the fact that they are dependent on either roadside control devices, roadside collection devices, manual vehicle registration or at least the automatic continuous transmission of toll information from the toll vehicle to the toll center.
  • EETS European Electronic Toll Service
  • toll collection is technically and organizationally separated from toll control
  • the toll service provider (EETS provider) who is responsible for toll collection has a claim on the automatic transmission of toll collection data from the vehicle subject to the toll, while the toll operator (toll charger) has to be content with the control task, which may be carried out on a random basis.
  • vehicle-bound toll collection devices include toll data that include route sections traveled or fees derived therefrom, or vehicle-bound position determination devices position data for toll detection to a center of a toll service with a time delay send, for example, after a certain number of route sections has been recognized by the toll collection device or after position data has been collected for transmission to the control center over a certain period of time.
  • a delayed data transmission from these vehicle devices to the control center means that the control center is not informed of the acute presence of a vehicle on a toll road section and is therefore not able to judge whether the vehicle device is on the road section solely on the basis of an external control message from which it received the control message is operating or working properly.
  • a toll collection device operated in prepaid mode can in principle dispense with the transmission of toll data (location information, toll fee) to a toll center for collection purposes.
  • the object of the invention is to enable the toll operator without roadside facilities to perform a data-saving, automated and efficient control of toll vehicles, of which he has no toll collection data when the toll vehicle is recorded on a toll route section.
  • the invention provides that, in order to control the toll collection of a vehicle device of a first vehicle subject to a toll, a decentralized control device carried by a second vehicle sends text data of the vehicle registration number via a cellular network to a central control device based on image data from an image recording of the first vehicle obtained automatically by the second vehicle that uses this to locate a mobile communication address of a vehicle device that is linked to the text data of the vehicle registration number, and to set up a communication connection via a cellular network with the vehicle device and from the vehicle device to compare the toll information on which the last toll was levied query at least one piece of control information from the second vehicle, and if the comparison fails, the central control device from the decentralized control device via the M obilfunknetz requests the image data on which the text data of the vehicle registration number was based.
  • Control information is understood to be information that is representative of the driving on a toll road section or a toll area by the second vehicle performing part of the control method according to the invention.
  • This control information can be given by a vehicle position, by an identifier of a toll road section or a toll area or by a toll that is area- or route-dependent.
  • the control information of the second vehicle can be formed by location information from the image recording, be included or supplement this.
  • the second vehicle transmits the control information together with the text data of the vehicle registration number to the central control device.
  • a toll-relevant vehicle parameter (permissible total weight, number of axles, emission class), on which the amount of the toll depends, cannot easily be recorded by the second vehicle with an image in flowing traffic - in contrast to the vehicle registration number.
  • One or more such toll-relevant parameters are available in the central control device linked to the mobile radio address of the vehicle device and in the vehicle device of the vehicle subject to the toll. Vehicle license plates and toll-relevant vehicle parameters together form vehicle information.
  • the result of the control carried out according to the invention can be used to check whether the toll collection of the vehicle subject to the toll was carried out correctly or possibly incorrectly. Because any control communication takes place via one and the same or several different mobile radio networks, the invention advantageously manages without roadside control and collection devices. It does not even have to rely on the fact that data on any kind of toll collection must be available in the toll control center at any point in time before the start of a control, because the toll control center only retrieves this data from the vehicle device of the detected toll vehicle in the case of random checks - i.e. when necessary. The requirement of data economy with regard to data transmission and data storage is thus met in a first way.
  • the data economy requirement is complied with in that initially only the small-volume text data and not the large-volume image data of the vehicle registration number of the first vehicle subject to the toll are transmitted from the second vehicle to the toll center. Only in the event of a negative control result (no vehicle device registered for the vehicle registration number available; no connection to the vehicle device possible; the vehicle device lacks the corresponding toll collection for the location of the image recording; vehicle parameters of the vehicle device do not match those of the central control device) the toll center requests the large-volume Image data from the controlling vehicle for the initiation of a procedure against the possibly toll-bouncing toll vehicle or its owner.
  • each toll service provider can use the invention to enable each toll operator to control his vehicle devices by displaying the data combination of vehicle registration number of the vehicle and mobile communication number of the vehicle device that occurs when the vehicle device is registered for a specific vehicle (initialization of the vehicle device) all toll operators transmitted.
  • DSRC dedicated short-range communication
  • a mobile phone equipped with a GNSS receiver and optional electronic toll cards as an on-board device is in principle not only capable of collecting tolls, but also controllable with regard to correct toll collection.
  • a control method for checking the toll-compliant operation of a first vehicle subject to toll with the participation of a second vehicle participating in the traffic of a road on which the first vehicle is traveling and a central data processing device in a toll system provides the toll collection system to be carried by vehicles subject to the toll used vehicle devices that generate at least one toll information in normal operation that is representative of the driving on the road or an area comprising this road by the toll vehicles, so that the second vehicle automatically generates at least one control information while driving on the road , which is representative of the driving on the road or an area comprising this road by the second vehicle, automatically capturing an image of the first vehicle from the image data while it is driving on the road of the image recorded by the first vehicle determines the text data of a vehicle registration number of the first vehicle, and transmits the text data of the vehicle registration number of the first vehicle and the control information to the central data processing device via a cellular network, and the central data processing device transmits the text data of the vehicle registration number of the
  • Means for image recording, image processing and communication with the central data processing device according to the invention can be comprised by a decentralized control device carried by the second vehicle.
  • the cellular network can be the cellular network of a single cellular network operator or a coupled network of several cellular networks from different cellular network operators.
  • the vehicle device of the first vehicle can thus be assigned to a first cellular network of a first cellular network operator and a control device of the second vehicle or the second vehicle itself can be assigned to a second cellular network of a second cellular network operator or also to the first cellular network of the first cellular network operator.
  • the central data processing device according to the invention can be provided by a central control device of a toll operator or provide one.
  • Technical circumstances under which the central data processing device registers a failure of the comparison of the first and second location information are mentioned in connection with the description of the second aspect of the invention, which relates to a central control device.
  • toll collection and control devices are vehicle-specific. This means that there is no need for street-side equipment that is expensive to manufacture and maintain. Control of the second vehicle and testing of the first vehicle take place solely via the cellular network and its existing infrastructure, regardless of toll collection and control.
  • the control method according to the invention is advantageously data-saving because it only makes it necessary to transmit large-volume image data if the check of the first vehicle for correct toll collection has failed.
  • the toll collection can also be comprised of a usage authorization or include such a usage authorization, the usage authorization being acquired by the vehicle device by requesting a toll center, for example as a toll ticket, triggered by a position determination in the vehicle device, with which a toll obligation of a used or an upcoming one Section has been determined.
  • GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System
  • the mobile radio number only needs to be stored in a central database of the central data processing device as the mobile radio communication address of the mobile phone in combination with the vehicle registration number of the first vehicle.
  • Such a link could be set up on the mobile phone by the toll user and transmitted to the central data processing devices of all toll operators for whose toll areas the toll service provider collects the toll using a computer program of a toll service provider that is stored on the mobile phone and collects tolls for several toll areas.
  • This transmission can alternatively or optionally also be carried out by a central data processing device of the toll service manager, to which the toll user has registered with his mobile phone initialized to the vehicle registration number of his vehicle.
  • the second vehicle automatically records an image of the first vehicle while it is traveling on the road.
  • Images can be recorded of first vehicles traveling in the same direction of travel as the second vehicle, for example of first vehicles that are driving ahead of or following the second vehicle. Images can also be recorded of first vehicles traveling in a different direction of travel than the second vehicle, for example of first vehicles that are approaching the second vehicle or that move away from the second vehicle in the opposite direction of travel after driving past the second vehicle.
  • the second vehicle has, for example, an image recording device for image recording, the image field of which is oriented in the direction of travel of the second vehicle.
  • the second vehicle has an image recording device, for example, whose image field is oriented opposite to the direction of travel of the second vehicle.
  • the second vehicle determines the text data of the vehicle registration number of the first vehicle from the image data of the image recorded by the first vehicle.
  • OCR optical character recognition
  • an image of the surroundings of the second vehicle is recorded by the second vehicle, which image does not necessarily include an image of a first vehicle without prior vehicle detection.
  • the recorded image is therefore subjected to a vehicle and / or license plate recognition procedure by the second vehicle before it is fed to the text recognition procedure if the vehicle and license plate recognition is successful.
  • a vehicle identification procedure can also be used to identify and classify first vehicles with regard to their size, with the result that they are divided into toll-free vehicles (for example, passenger cars) and toll vehicles (for example, trucks). Images of toll-free vehicles can then be deleted immediately from the first vehicle before a vehicle registration number is determined.
  • toll-free vehicles for example, passenger cars
  • toll vehicles for example, trucks
  • a communication connection between the second vehicle and the central data processing device used to transmit the text data of the vehicle registration number to the central data processing device is preferably initiated decentrally by the second vehicle by dialing the communication address of the central data processing device via the cellular network.
  • a communication link between the central data processing device and the vehicle device used to request the toll information from the vehicle device of the first vehicle is preferably initiated centrally by the central data processing device by dialing the mobile phone number of the decentralized vehicle device via the mobile network.
  • a communication link between the central data processing device and the second vehicle used to request the image data of the first vehicle from the second vehicle is preferably initiated centrally by the central data processing device by transmitting the mobile phone number of a decentralized control device carried by the second vehicle via the mobile network dials.
  • the first communication connection between the decentralized control device and the central data processing device for transmitting the text data was terminated in order to establish a second communication connection following the first communication connection between the decentralized control device and the central data processing device for transmitting the image data.
  • the mobile phone number of the decentralized control device has been available to the central data processing device at the latest since the text data of the vehicle registration number of the first vehicle was transmitted by the second vehicle, because it was transmitted by the decentralized control device of the second vehicle as part of the communication with the central data processing device.
  • control information is provided by the second vehicle together with the text data of the vehicle registration number.
  • control information is second location information of the second vehicle, which is temporally correlated with the image recording of the first vehicle
  • the toll information is first location information on which the at least one toll collection is based is that the central data processing device compares the first location information of the vehicle device with the second location information of the image recording.
  • a control method for checking the toll-compliant operation of a first vehicle with the participation of a second vehicle participating in the traffic of a road driven by the first vehicle (10) and a central data processing device in a toll system, the vehicle devices to be carried by toll vehicles for toll collection depending on in each case at least one first location information about the presence of the vehicles on a toll road section are used, in which the second vehicle automatically generates at least one second location information during its journey on the road, which is representative of driving on the road or one encompassing this road Area by the second vehicle, automatically takes a picture of the first vehicle while it is driving on the road, from the image data of the picture taken by the first vehicle (10) the text data of a company hrzeugkenn Lake, of the first vehicle (10), and the text data of the vehicle registration number of the first vehicle (10) together with the second location information via a cellular network to the central data processing device and the central data processing device adds the second location information from the second vehicle Vehicle transmitted text data of the vehicle registration number of the first vehicle is used
  • the first location information of the vehicle device of the first vehicle and / or the second location information of the image recording of the second vehicle consists of the specification of a toll road section, which is determined by a comparison of position data of a GNSS carried by the respective vehicle -Receiver with these toll road sections representing GEO objects of an electronic map carried by the respective vehicle is determined.
  • a toll road section which is determined by a comparison of position data of a GNSS carried by the respective vehicle -Receiver with these toll road sections representing GEO objects of an electronic map carried by the respective vehicle is determined.
  • a toll road section for example a section of the motorway between two directly consecutive junctions, extends over a route several hundred meters or several kilometers long, due to the small distance that exists for taking an image of the first vehicle from the second vehicle, it is very likely that the first and second location information items available as such and provided by the first and second vehicle are identical if the toll collection of the first vehicle is correct. If the first and second location information are not identical, the toll collection of the first The vehicle will still be correct if the first and second location information represent two road sections that are subject to tolls in direct succession. For example, the second vehicle can be in a different toll section than the first vehicle at the moment the image is recorded.
  • the assignment of the vehicle position to a toll road section has not yet taken place in the first and / or the second vehicle.
  • Such a constellation could be recognized in that embodiments of the invention provide for the second vehicle to record several images of the first vehicle, each image being linked to its own second location information of the second vehicle on the toll road section on which the image was recorded took place, and if two images of two different toll road sections are available as second location information, both toll road sections are transmitted from the second vehicle together with the text data of the vehicle registration number obtained from the two images to the central data processing device.
  • the first location information can also be given by first position data of one or more first vehicle positions of the first vehicle subject to tolls and the second location information by second position data of one or more second vehicle positions of the second — controlling — vehicle.
  • vehicle positions as an alternative to the route sections, it initially remains unclear whether these vehicle positions are representative of the use of a toll route section or area. This is the case, for example, when the vehicle device of the first vehicle subject to the toll and the decentralized control device of the second controlling vehicle are designed as "thin clients" which, in contrast to a "thick client", do not have a toll identification function.
  • the central data processing device first checks the toll relevance of the second position data it has received from the second vehicle by determining whether the second position data is representative of driving on a toll road section or area. If this is the case, it queries the first position data from the first vehicle or at least undertakes the aforementioned attempt to set up a cellular communication link with the vehicle device of the first vehicle. If this is not the case, there is no need to request first position data from the first vehicle. These can be decisive for the correct functioning of the vehicle device, but not necessarily for the toll-compliant operation of the first vehicle.
  • the On-Board Unit may in any case - completely compliant with the toll - cannot be addressed via mobile communications. If a second vehicle position of the second vehicle is exempt from tolls, the central data processing device cancels this control case before attempting to set up a communication link to the first vehicle.
  • the aforementioned case of the control of thin clients by thin clients creates many cases of which it is only determined by the central data processing device that there are actually no control cases but only monitoring cases. A solution is suggested elsewhere to avoid this scenario.
  • cumulative embodiments of the control method according to the invention provide that the central data processing device, toll-relevant vehicle parameters and the vehicle license plate number of the first vehicle, the central side with the mobile communication address of the The vehicle device is linked and present decentrally on the vehicle device, requested by the vehicle device, it being provided that the central data processing device compares this decentrally provided vehicle information of the vehicle device with the centrally available vehicle information.
  • a control method for checking the toll-compliant operation of a first vehicle with the participation of a second vehicle participating in the traffic of a road driven by the first vehicle (10) and a central data processing device in a toll system, the vehicle devices to be carried by toll vehicles for toll collection depending on in each case at least one first location information about the presence of the vehicles on a toll road section are used, in which the second vehicle automatically generates at least one second location information during its journey on the road, which is representative of driving on the road or one encompassing this road Area by the second vehicle, automatically takes a picture of the first vehicle while it is driving on the road, from the image data of the picture taken by the first vehicle (10) the text data of a company hrzeugkennsch, of the first vehicle (10), and the text data of the vehicle registration number of the first vehicle (10) together with the second location information via a cellular network to the central data processing device and the central data processing device adds the second location information from the second vehicle Text data of the vehicle registration number of the first vehicle transmitted to the vehicle
  • said vehicle information can be the vehicle registration number and / or a toll-relevant vehicle parameter (permissible total weight, number of axles, emission class) on which the amount of the toll depends.
  • the central data processing device checks whether the vehicle information transmitted by the vehicle device matches the vehicle information stored in the central database under the mobile phone number or some other identification of the vehicle device. It can be the case that the vehicle device has been re-initialized decentrally to a different vehicle registration number and is carried by another vehicle without this re-initialization being transmitted to the central data processing device.
  • toll-relevant vehicle parameters have been changed decentrally on the vehicle device, but the central data processing device has not received a confirmation from a state vehicle registration authority about a change in the toll-relevant vehicle parameters of the vehicle in question. Since such data differences can be traced back to an attempted fraud on the part of the user, the toll operator has to investigate this negatively closed control case and needs the image of the first vehicle whose correct toll collection is in question as evidence.
  • Embodiments of the invention provide that the toll collection data of the first vehicle are linked in terms of data technology to the at least one first item of location information or imply this. This makes it possible to extract the location information from the toll collection data, which is transmitted from the first vehicle to the central data processing device on request, which is to be proven for a toll collection.
  • the toll collection data can have two data records linked to one another, a first of which reproduces the toll fee and a second a description of the toll road section for which this toll fee was collected. If the tolls are different for each section of the route subject to a toll, a single toll data record is sufficient as toll collection data, because the respective toll route section for which this toll was levied is then defined via the toll charges.
  • Embodiments of the control method according to the invention provide that toll collection data of the toll information of the vehicle device are in each case linked in terms of data technology with a collection time for a certain toll route section or imply this and the image recording is linked to a recording time that is received by the central data processing device and used in order to be used by the On-board device to request the toll collection data of that collection time which, in terms of its temporal rank compared to collection times of other toll collection data, precedes the recording time closest in time.
  • This enables the toll collection to be determined in a simple manner, which is decisive for the control in connection with the image acquisition.
  • the on-board device of the first vehicle and the decentralized control device of the second vehicle or the second vehicle itself can preferably each be equipped with a radio clock that each delivers a time signal that is related to the toll collection in the on-board device and to the Image recording with the decentralized control device or the second vehicle is related.
  • a time signal from a radio clock the time signal from a navigation satellite of a GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) can also be used, which is received by a GNSS receiver used to determine the position of the vehicles.
  • GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System
  • control information is second location information of the second vehicle, which is temporally correlated with the image recording of the first vehicle via an image recording time that is transmitted from the second vehicle to the central data processing device, and the toll information of the first vehicle is first location information
  • the central data processing device transmitting the image recording time (IAT) to the vehicle device together with the request for the first location information, in order to request that selected first location information from the vehicle device from a plurality of first location information items that coincides with the image recording time best correlated, and to compare the obtained selected first location information of the vehicle device (100) with the second location information of the image recording.
  • IAT image recording time
  • the second location information includes position data from a vehicle position or from several vehicle positions of the second vehicle, which are closest in time to the time of the image recording compared to the position data of other vehicle positions of the second vehicle (20) selected first location information includes position data from a first vehicle position or from a plurality of first vehicle positions of the first vehicle, which are chronologically closest to the image acquisition time compared to the position data of other first vehicle positions of the first vehicle.
  • the second location information includes the identifier of a second toll object recognized by the second vehicle as being driven on, which is linked to a detection time that ranks second in terms of its temporal priority compared to the detection times of others recognized by the second vehicle as being driven on Toll objects precede the time the image was taken closest in time
  • the first selected location information includes the identifier of a first toll object recognized as being driven by the first vehicle, which is linked to a recognition time that is temporally relative to recognition times of other first toll objects recognized by the first vehicle as being driven by the image recording time closest to going forward.
  • the central data processing device preferably sends a request for deletion to the second vehicle, which the second vehicle receives and operates by using the text data of the vehicle registration number and the image data of the image recording, which is used to determine the text data of the Vehicle registration number of the first vehicle was based, deletes.
  • the second vehicle preferably deletes the text data of the vehicle registration number and the image data of the image recording on which the determination of the text data of the vehicle registration number of the first vehicle was based, at the latest at the end of a predetermined deletion period.
  • the deletion period is preferably set in motion by the point in time at which the image was taken.
  • the deletion period is preferably at least one minute or at most one hour.
  • Embodiments of the control method according to the invention are characterized in that the second vehicle records the image of the first vehicle as a result of an automatic detection of at least one trigger condition, for which it detects a measured value and compares it with a reference value to check that the trigger condition has been met.
  • This measured value can be recorded by at least one sensor device carried by the second vehicle and can be a measured value of a speed and / or acceleration of the second vehicle and / or a distance of the second vehicle to a first vehicle in the direction of travel (ahead or oncoming) or against the Be the first vehicle located in the direction of travel (following or passing).
  • the second vehicle can recognize, by comparing the measured value with a reference value, whether the measured value corresponds to a triggering condition or not. This advantageously ensures that the second vehicle only takes a picture when the driving state of the second vehicle corresponds to a circumstance that indicates the proximity of a first vehicle in its vicinity, that is, a first vehicle can be the cause. Superfluous image recordings, in which no first vehicle can be recognized or from which no vehicle registration number can be determined, can thus be avoided.
  • the second vehicle records the image of the first vehicle when the second vehicle is operated in a control mode, and from operation in an idle mode, in which image recording is not possible, to operation in a control mode, in which the image acquisition is enabled, changes by automatically recognizing the fulfillment of at least one condition for this change and automatically executing this operating mode change as a result of this recognition.
  • the idle mode it is not possible to take a picture regardless of whether the trigger condition is fulfilled;
  • the control mode however, the image recording is possible depending on the fulfillment of the trigger condition.
  • the idle mode the measurement value acquisition, the recognition procedure or the image recording function in the second vehicle can be deactivated so that no image is recorded.
  • the control mode In the control mode, the measured value acquisition, the recognition procedure and the image recording function are activated, so that the second vehicle generates an image recording when the trigger condition is fulfilled.
  • a sleep mode in which, in contrast to the control mode, no image recording is possible, makes it possible to exclude regions or traffic conditions from an image recording in which no control is required. In this way, unnecessary mutual monitoring of vehicles can be avoided in toll-free areas. In addition, there is no need for a continuous control on all roads of a toll route network, which creates unnecessary multiple controls. Finally, after an initial check in a traffic jam, further checks can be dispensed with, since vehicle positions rarely change in a traffic jam and when changing from driving to a traffic jam, a one-time check is carried out that does not need to be repeated. A walking speed or a standstill of the second vehicle can cause the operation in the idle state.
  • the second vehicle receives at least one condition for the change from operation in idle mode to operation in control mode in the form of a control plan via a communications network from the central data processing device, the control plan containing the description or identifier of at least one to be checked contains toll route section or at least one toll area to be controlled, and wherein the second vehicle detects its driving on a toll route section or toll area that corresponds to that of the control plan and as a result of this detection changes from operation in idle mode to operation in control mode.
  • a decentralized client that is in principle designed as a thin client.
  • Control device of the second vehicle the position detection ability to determine a correspondence of the own vehicle position with a predetermined control start position for the change from operation in idle mode to operation in control mode and a predetermined control end position for the change from operation in control mode to operation in idle mode in one specified frame, which is, for example, a deviation of +/- 100 meters or about +/- 3 arc seconds in the geographical latitude and about +/- 3 to 10 arc seconds in the geographical longitude, depending on the geographical latitude, be limited.
  • the second vehicle On the journey from the control start position to the control end position, the second vehicle is operated in control mode, in which it is able to take an image of its vehicle surroundings, in which a first vehicle is located, if a trigger condition is determined.
  • the second vehicle is guided unmanned, the second vehicle being an unmanned vehicle with automatic drive and automatic control, which automatically detects its own position, this with a control position or several control positions of a toll object to be checked from the control plan compares and moves independently to one of the toll objects to be checked and / or to one of the toll objects to be checked.
  • a control of the first vehicle can thus be carried out by a second vehicle without a driver, which participates completely autonomously in the traffic on the road of the first vehicle.
  • the second vehicle is a battery-operated electric vehicle, it can be designed to automatically recognize its state of charge and, depending on its state of charge, to drive to the nearest charging station and recharge its battery (ies) there on its own in order to then continue its inspection drive.
  • a central control device of a toll system which uses vehicle devices to be carried by vehicles subject to toll and used for toll collection, which in normal operation generate at least one toll information that is representative of driving on a route section subject to toll or a toll area through the toll vehicles, at least one communication interface to at least one cellular network, via which at least one communication connection with at least one first vehicle and one second vehicle can be set up, as well as a central database and a central processor that is configured to (i) transmitted from the second vehicle Receive text data of the vehicle registration number of the first vehicle via the communication interface and at least one piece of control information that is representative of driving on a toll road section or a toll area by the second vehicle, (ii) by querying the central database using the text data of the vehicle registration number of the first vehicle to attempt to determine a mobile communication address of a vehicle device, (iii) the vehicle device under this mobile radio To select the communication address, (iv) to request toll information relevant for its proper operation from
  • the toll information is first location information for the first vehicle and the control information is second location information for the second vehicle.
  • the location information can be position data of the vehicles or toll road sections or areas recognized by the vehicles in the form of an identifier of the toll road section or area.
  • the central processor can be a single central processor or a network of several central processors which are coupled to one another and which are included in the central control device.
  • a central control device which is able to carry out a check of the correct toll collection without road-side control devices. To do this, it uses control information that is made available to it by a control vehicle as the second vehicle via the mobile network and uses this to create a control request to the vehicle device - if a mobile communication address of a vehicle device is stored in the central database under the text data of the vehicle registration number - again over the cellular network. With a successful comparison of the control information with the toll information or the second with the first location information - for example, the correspondence of the first with the second location information - the control would be positively completed; and the central processor is preferably configured to then terminate the control process.
  • the central processor can be configured to determine if the comparison of the second with the first location information has failed if one of the following technical conditions is present: (i) a query to the central database for the mobile communication address of a vehicle device based on the text data of the vehicle registration number first vehicle gives no result; (ii) the attempt to set up a communication link with the vehicle device via the communication interface on the basis of the determined mobile radio communication address fails; (iii) a request to the vehicle device to provide at least one piece of toll information, for example first location information on which its toll collection is based, is not served by the vehicle device; (iv) the comparison of the toll information transmitted by the vehicle device, for example the first location information, with the control information transmitted by the second vehicle (20), for example the second location information, results in a predetermined maximum deviation of the toll information and the control information, for example the first and second location information, not a sufficient match from one another.
  • Embodiments of the central control device provide that the central processor is configured to select a cellular communication address of the second vehicle from a database and to use this to contact the second vehicle via the cellular network in order to transmit a request to take a picture of a vehicle ahead or behind . This makes it possible to control the control activity of the second vehicle from the toll center.
  • the central processor can be configured to transmit an area specification from one or more areas, for example toll road sections, to the second vehicle, on which the recording of images of vehicles driving ahead or behind is limited. Many different second vehicles can receive the same area specifications in order to carry out a spatially limited control measure.
  • the central processor can be configured to transmit a control plan with a large number of area specifications for the same and / or different consecutive and / or completely or partially overlapping time windows to a second vehicle or several second vehicles.
  • Decentralized control devices in every such second vehicle are configured to receive and carry out such a control plan.
  • Embodiments of the central control device are characterized in that the central processor is configured, upon a successful comparison of the first location information (toll information) of the vehicle device with the second location information (control information) of the second vehicle, in which the first location information transmitted by the vehicle device with that of the second location information transmitted to the second vehicle within the scope of a predetermined maximum deviation of the first and second location information from one another sufficiently coincides to set up a communication connection with the second vehicle in order to instruct the second vehicle, to delete at least the image data of the image recording of the preceding or following vehicle, which it holds stored in a decentralized memory for transmission to the central control device, from the decentralized memory.
  • the central processor is configured, upon a successful comparison of the first location information (toll information) of the vehicle device with the second location information (control information) of the second vehicle, in which the first location information transmitted by the vehicle device with that of the second location information transmitted to the second vehicle within the scope of a predetermined maximum deviation of the first and second location information from one another sufficiently coincides to set up a communication
  • a decentralized control device carried by the second vehicle can be instructed immediately after a positive control result to delete the control information that is no longer required.
  • Such a data deletion method ensures particularly secure handling of data in need of protection, in particular if the second vehicle sends a message back to the central control device for confirmation that the deletion has been carried out, and the central processor of the central control device is configured to receive and confirm the deletion to be stored in a control data memory for data protection reporting purposes without reference to the checked first vehicle.
  • Embodiments of the central control device provide that the central control device is configured to transmit a control plan via a communication radio network to the second vehicle, which contains the description or identifier of at least one toll route section to be controlled or at least one toll area to be controlled and with which the second The vehicle is instructed to take any images of the first vehicle only on the toll road section to be checked or the toll area to be checked that the second vehicle is driving and recognizes as being driven by itself.
  • Said communication radio network can be a public cellular network or a proprietary DSRC-based network of stationary roadside DSRC beacons that the toll operator has set up to distribute control plans to second vehicles at certain points on the toll road network, which can then receive them with a DSRC reception Device are equipped.
  • the central control device can also transmit a control instruction to vehicles driving past the roadside beacon, which contains an instruction to the second vehicle from receipt of the message from operation in a sleep mode to the To change operation in a control mode, in which images of toll vehicles can be created by the second vehicle, and to maintain operation in control mode for a specified time or route, in order to return to operation when the specified time has elapsed or the specified route is obtained to change in idle mode, in which no image recordings of toll vehicles can be created by the second vehicle.
  • a DSRC beacon network it is possible to send targeted control instructions to a few second vehicles on certain route sections and thus to distribute the control tasks efficiently and without redundancy.
  • the DSRC beacons can also be mobile or at least portable and, depending on the control requirements, can be set up on the street side of the route sections to be checked.
  • Such portable or mobile DSRC beacons can each be equipped with a position determination device that determines the position of the DSRC beacon, for example using GNSS satellite signals, and each with a mobile radio communication device via which the DSRC beacons can at least determine their position if it has exceeded a certain change distance compared to a previous position, transmit it to the central control device together with its respective beacon-specific identifier.
  • the central control facility is included trained, depending on the positions of the DSRC beacons, to create or select position-specific control plans for the respective DSRC-beacon passing control vehicles, whose control areas are each adapted to the position of the respective DRSC-beacon, and to assign these position-specific control plans to those DSRC-beacons send whose position corresponds to that of the respective position-specific control plan.
  • the control plan can include two control areas which are in opposite directions of travel with respect to the position of the roadside DSRC beacon.
  • the beacon sends this control plan over a predetermined period of time or in a predetermined number to all passing vehicles, regardless of their direction of travel. This means that at least one control area of the control plan applies to each of the vehicles, regardless of the direction of travel.
  • a decentralized control device of a vehicle has a position determining device, a mobile radio communication device, an image recording device and at least one decentralized processor which is configured to (i) receive and register at least one piece of control information from or with data from the position determining device , which is representative of the presence of the vehicle on a toll road section or in a toll area, (ii) instructing the image recording device to take a picture of another vehicle in the vicinity of the vehicle, (iii) text data of a vehicle registration number of the other vehicle (10 ) to determine from the image data of the image recording of the other vehicle (10), (iv) this text data of a vehicle registration number, and to transmit the control information via the mobile radio communication device to a central data processing device and (v) upon a request from the central data processing device to transmit to the central data processing device those image data of the image recording of the other vehicle on which the extraction of the text data of the vehicle registration number of the other vehicle was based.
  • the decentralized processor can be a single decentralized processor or a network of several decentralized processors which are coupled to one another and which are included in the decentralized control device.
  • the control information can be location information of the image recording, which was determined from one or more positions registered by the position determining device in temporal correlation with the image recording.
  • a control component of a toll system is provided, which advantageously makes it possible to transmit initial control information in text form to a toll control center of the toll system in a data-saving manner without road-side control devices and the more extensive image data on which the initial control information is based only when required and requested by the toll control center to be transmitted to the toll control center for documentation and law enforcement purposes.
  • Embodiments of the third aspect of the invention provide that the decentralized processor is configured to transmit the text data of the vehicle registration number together with information about the time of the image recording to a central data processing device, and to select from a plurality of control information items that selected control information for transmission to the central data processing device which regarding her Registration time compared to other control information is closest in time to the image recording time or is closest in time.
  • a temporal and spatial reference for the image acquisition can thus be transmitted to the central data processing device, which can be used by the central data processing device to query the location information corresponding to this temporal reference from the other vehicle.
  • a mobile phone equipped with a camera and a GNSS receiver could already be used as a decentralized control device according to the invention on the windshield of the controlling vehicle.
  • a vehicle driver who wants to be checked can have his mobile phone registered with any toll operator for checking.
  • such a mobile phone used for control purposes could also be used as an on-board device for collecting tolls from the controlling vehicle, provided that it is also subject to a toll.
  • the invention thus advantageously enables the combinatorial use of a mobile phone for toll collection for one's own vehicle and for toll control for third-party vehicles.
  • a user who is subject to tolls with his mobile phone to different toll operators can, together with the registration with a toll service provider, announce his readiness to monitor and then be contacted by one or more toll operators via the cellular network to agree on a separate inspection activity.
  • Remuneration measures which are referred to below, are also suitable for such control activities.
  • Embodiments of the decentralized control device are characterized by at least one sensor that detects at least one vehicle status of the controlling vehicle carrying the decentralized control device, the decentralized processor being configured to use the image recording device as a function of the at least one vehicle status detected by the sensor instructing them to take a picture of the other vehicle.
  • the decentralized processor being configured to use the image recording device as a function of the at least one vehicle status detected by the sensor instructing them to take a picture of the other vehicle.
  • a decentralized control device which is characterized in that the sensor is designed to provide at least one measured value of the vehicle condition to the decentralized processor, the decentralized processor is configured to receive this measured value and with a reference value for the fulfillment of a To compare trigger condition in order to generate a trigger signal in the event of fulfillment, and the image recording device is designed to receive the trigger signal and, as a result of its reception, record the image.
  • the senor can be a speed sensor that detects the speed of the controlling vehicle, the decentralized processor being configured to instruct the image recording device to record an image of a vehicle traveling ahead or behind when the vehicle speed is below a limit speed.
  • Such a sensor can already be provided by the position determination device in that it is designed as a GNSS receiver and provides the central processor with a speed signal obtained from the signals from navigation satellites.
  • the sensor or a sensor additional to the speed sensor can be a distance sensor that detects the distance of the controlling vehicle to a vehicle traveling ahead or behind, the decentralized processor being configured to instruct the image recording device to take an image if the vehicle distance is below a maximum distance a vehicle ahead or behind. Since a speed reduction on a toll road is often due to an obstacle driving ahead, a speed reduction can be due to the presence of a vehicle driving ahead, of which a picture can be taken.
  • a distance sensor can measure distances to both a preceding and a following vehicle, the decentralized processor referring to a predetermined maximum distance below which an image of a preceding and a following vehicle by the image recording device of the rear of the preceding vehicle or the front of the following vehicle can be carried out in a resolution that makes it possible to obtain text data of a vehicle registration number from the image recording using an image processing method.
  • a traffic jam thus triggers an efficient crowd control.
  • the senor can be an acceleration sensor that detects the acceleration of the vehicle as a function of time and integrates it over time to form a speed change value, the decentralized processor being configured when a negative speed change value is present, the amount of which is greater than a predetermined minimum amount Speed change value to instruct the image capturing device to capture an image of the other vehicle. Larger braking maneuvers or a longer coasting of the vehicle can thus be used as a trigger for an image recording, which only takes place when the change in speed is large enough, in particular the negative change in speed with regard to its magnitude.
  • Embodiments of the decentralized control device are characterized in that the central processor is configured to store at least the image data of the image of the other, for example preceding or following, vehicle obtained by the image recording device in a decentralized memory of the control device and at the latest at the end of a predetermined period of time ( Deletion period) or after receiving a deletion request from the central data processing device from the decentralized memory.
  • a data erasure method ensures that trustworthy data - such as, in particular, the image data from the image recording of a vehicle on which the vehicle registration number can be recognized - are not kept longer than necessary.
  • the aforementioned data deletion method offers an alternative data deletion, which ensures that the image data is deleted in any case no later than the expiry of the deletion period.
  • the text data of the vehicle registration number are preferably also included in this data deletion method in an analogous manner.
  • Embodiments of the invention according to the decentralized control device can be configured in such a way that the image recording of the image recording device takes place only when the decentralized control device is in a control mode, and the decentralized processor is configured, (i) the decentralized control device from an operation in the idle mode in which the Image recording is not possible to switch to an operation in the control mode, in which the image recording is enabled, and vice versa, (ii) the fulfillment of at least one predetermined condition, which is necessary to carry out the operating mode change of the decentralized control device, to recognize automatically and ( iii) to automatically execute the operating mode change upon recognition of the fulfillment of the at least one predetermined condition.
  • the image recording activity of the decentralized control device can advantageously be limited to areas and situations in which a need for control and a control circumstance arise in the first place.
  • the image recording device in the control mode, the image recording device is activated for receiving and processing the image recording instruction and the decentralized control device and / or its decentralized processor is configured to send an image recording instruction to the image recording device.
  • the image recording device for receiving or processing the image recording instruction is deactivated or and the decentralized control device and / or its decentralized processor is configured not to send any image recording instructions to the image recording device regardless of the data from the first sensor.
  • the decentralized control device and / or its decentralized processor can be configured, at least one activation signal that is decisive for the change from operation in idle mode to operation in control mode, and / or at least one deactivation signal that is decisive for the Change from operation in control mode to operation in sleep mode, to generate or receive and process.
  • embodiments of the decentralized control device are provided, the decentralized processor of which is configured to use a location specification received from the central control device to instruct or permit an image recording by the image recording device only in the geographical area that corresponds to the location specification.
  • the control is given a sample-like character.
  • the location specifications can relate to areas to be controlled whose toll road sections have no roadside control devices, but have a low traffic density.
  • the decentralized processor can be configured to (i) recognize from the control information the presence of the decentralized control device on a toll road section or in a toll area, (ii) to change the decentralized control device from operation in idle mode to operation in control mode cause when the decentralized control device reaches the toll route section or in the toll area, or to keep the operation of the decentralized control device in control mode as long as the decentralized control device is present on the toll route section or in the toll area, and (iii) a change of to bring about the decentralized control device from operation in control mode to operation in idle mode if the decentralized control device removes the toll route section or the leaves the toll area, or to keep the operation in idle mode as long as the decentralized control device is not present on the toll route section or in the toll area.
  • the decentralized processor can be configured to detect the speed of the controlling vehicle and to effect a change from the operation in the sleep mode to the operation of the control mode or to keep the operation in the control mode if or as long as the vehicle exceeds a predetermined minimum speed , and to bring about a change from the operation in the control mode to the operation of the idle mode if the vehicle falls below the specified minimum speed, or to keep the operation in idle mode as long as the vehicle does not exceed the specified minimum speed.
  • the decentralized processor can be configured to detect the distance between the controlling vehicle and the other vehicle (10) to be controlled and to effect a change from operation in sleep mode to operation in control mode or to operation in control mode hold if or as long as the distance exceeds a predetermined minimum distance, and to effect a change from operation in control mode to operation in sleep mode or to keep operation in sleep mode if or as long as the distance does not exceed the given minimum distance.
  • the decentralized processor can be configured to record the point in time of an image acquisition and, at the point in time of the image acquisition, bring about a change from operation in control mode to operation in sleep mode and a change from operation in sleep mode back to operation in control mode when a predetermined sleep mode period has elapsed from the time the image was taken.
  • the redundant behavior can advantageously be avoided that a vehicle to be controlled is detected several times by the same controlling vehicle.
  • the decentralized control device can be characterized in that the decentralized processor is configured, (i) a control plan which contains the description or identifier of at least one toll road section to be controlled or at least one toll area to be controlled and from the central data processing device via a communication device was received, to be stored in a data memory of the decentralized control device, (ii) to recognize the presence of the decentralized control device on a toll route section or area subject to tolls that corresponds to that of the control plan and (iii) as a result of this detection, the decentralized control device is out of operation in idle mode to put the operation in control mode.
  • the communication device of the decentralized control device required for receiving the control plan can be a mobile radio communication device or a DSRC communication device.
  • the decentralized control device can comprise a navigation device and be designed to intervene in a controlling manner in the locomotion and steering drive of the vehicle, the navigation device being designed to determine the vehicle position and a control position or several control positions of a toll object to be checked from the control plan to determine a route from the Process vehicle position to a control position, wherein the decentralized control device is designed to control the locomotion and steering of the vehicle in such a way that it drives independently on the determined route.
  • This provides an autonomous control vehicle that is controlled by its decentralized control device to drive to control areas independently and to automatically take pictures of vehicles to be controlled.
  • Embodiments of the decentralized control device provide that a toll collection functionality for the vehicle is implemented on the decentralized control device, with which the control and in particular location information determined by the decentralized control device is assigned a toll for the vehicle and is stored in a toll data memory of the decentralized control device, wherein the decentralized processor is configured to receive an instruction for reducing or canceling the toll fee from the central data processing device and to provide, change and / or delete the toll fee stored in the toll data memory in accordance with this instruction with a reduction or cancellation note.
  • the decentralized control device it becomes possible to collect tolls and control by means of a single vehicle device provided by the decentralized control device (for example a mobile phone, loc. Cit.).
  • the toll-paying and controlling user can be remunerated for his control activity: For example, for each transmitted vehicle license plate in text form, he can be waived 10% of the toll already levied by his vehicle device for the section of the route on which he checked vehicle can be granted by this 10% is credited to him through a subsequent reduction of the toll in the toll data memory of his on-board device. For example, for each set of transmitted image data of a vehicle recording, the toll for the section of the route on which he recorded the checked vehicle can be completely waived by canceling the toll charged by deleting the toll from the toll data memory of his vehicle device.
  • the decentralized control device can be designed in one piece, in that all components of the decentralized control device are encompassed by a single decentralized control device, and can also be designed in several parts, in that components of the decentralized control device are distributed over several decentralized control units, have the means for data-technical wired or wireless communication with one another.
  • the sensor according to the invention and the image recording device according to the invention can be arranged in the front area of the second vehicle outside the passenger compartment, and the part of the decentralized control device, which is designed analogously to the on-board device of a toll vehicle for GNSS-based toll collection, can be arranged inside the passenger compartment.
  • the decentralized control device has a vehicle device (toll device) to be carried in the toll system for toll collection in the vehicle, as well as a control unit which is linked to the toll device in terms of data technology and which has the image recording device according to the invention and a control data memory for storing the image data generated by the image recording device.
  • the toll device and the control device preferably each have their own processor, which form a network of processors according to the invention in that they are configured together, in particular coordinated with one another, to carry out the method steps according to the invention as a single processor.
  • a standard toll device can thus be provided with a control functionality by upgrading with such a control unit, without the existing toll device having to be replaced by a control device providing toll collection functionality.
  • the toll device can be provided by the EETS toll service provider as usual, while the control unit is provided by the EETS toll operator.
  • Embodiments of the decentralized control device provide that the decentralized processor is configured to instruct the image recording device to take multiple images of the other vehicle, in particular the preceding, following or oncoming vehicle, in order to analyze the multiple image recordings with regard to their image quality, and to only use the image data of that image recording to store the decentralized memory and / or to use to obtain text data of the vehicle registration number of the preceding or following vehicle, which has the highest image quality of the multiple image recordings.
  • the invention benefits in particular from the decentralized image evaluation in the controlling vehicle: Instead of sending the image data of an image in full to the central control device and leaving it to it to determine that the image quality for a clear text recognition of the vehicle registration number in the image recording is not is sufficient, the image quality is carried out decentrally in the controlling vehicle. This avoids that an inadequate image quality is first determined on the central side, as a result of which the inspection is disadvantageously prolonged or even has to be aborted without result because no image recordings of sufficient image quality are available.
  • the decentralized processor can be configured to use a text recognition program to extract text data for the vehicle license number from several image recordings and to use statistical methods to estimate a probability that the recognized vehicle license number corresponds to reality. Only the text data of the vehicle registration number of the image recording with the highest probability are transmitted to the central control device; only the image data of this image recording are stored in the decentralized memory.
  • the invention manifests itself in particular in a toll system which has vehicle devices to be carried by vehicles for toll collection, a central control device according to the invention according to the second aspect of the invention and at least one vehicle with a decentralized control device according to the invention according to the third aspect of the invention.
  • the decentralized control device according to the invention can be understood as a decentralized control component of a control system of the toll system and the central control device according to the invention as central control components of the control system of the toll system.
  • decentralized control devices which are distributed over several vehicles, can be managed by the control system as a group of decentralized control components by sending different control orders or control plans for control in different areas and / or at different times via the mobile network to different decentralized control devices of the group distributed by decentralized control components. This allows the control to be controlled regionally and temporarily.
  • decentralized control devices can be designed to regularly send their own position together with their identifier to the central control device at predetermined time intervals, the central control device being designed as a function of the positions of the decentralized control devices to create or select position-specific control plans, the control areas of which are each adapted to the position of the respective decentralized control devices, and to send these position-specific control plans to the decentralized control devices, the position of which corresponds to that of the respective position-specific control plan.
  • decentralized control devices can be designed to regularly send their own position together with travel direction information and together with their identifier to the central control device at predetermined time intervals, the central control device being designed as a function of the positions and the travel direction information of the decentralized control devices to create or select position-specific control plans, the control areas of which are to be connected to the position of the respective decentralized control devices in the respective direction of travel, and to send these position-specific control plans to the decentralized control devices, the position of which corresponds to that of the respective position-specific control plan.
  • the central control device can of course also obtain such travel direction information from the data of several successive positions of a decentralized control device.
  • a toll system In a toll system according to the invention, vehicles 10 and 20 subject to toll travel on a route section 30 subject to toll, the vehicle 20 subject to the toll performing a control function according to the invention and hence the term "controlling vehicle 20" is used to distinguish from the vehicle 10 subject to tolls without a control function.
  • the controlling, second vehicle 20 follows the toll-liable first vehicle 10 immediately in the direction of travel.
  • control case A which ends with a positive control result in which the correct toll collection of a vehicle device 100 carried by the vehicle 10 is confirmed by the central control device 500 of a toll center 50.
  • the vehicle device 100 used for toll collection comprises according to FIG Fig. 2 a vehicle device processor 110, which receives and processes position data of a GNSS receiver 130 and time data of a radio clock 160, is connected to a cellular radio transceiver 140 with cellular radio antenna 142 and has read access to a map data memory 221 and read / write -Access to a toll data memory 122 has.
  • a vehicle device processor 110 which receives and processes position data of a GNSS receiver 130 and time data of a radio clock 160, is connected to a cellular radio transceiver 140 with cellular radio antenna 142 and has read access to a map data memory 221 and read / write -Access to a toll data memory 122 has.
  • the radio clock 160 of the vehicle device 100 continuously receives time information from a central time point via its radio clock antenna 162.
  • the GNSS receiver 130 of the vehicle device 100 receives satellite data from satellites of a global satellite navigation system (GNSS, for example currently GPS / NAVSTAR or in the future Galileo) via its GNSS antenna 132 and processes this every second to output position data that is sent by the Vehicle device processor 110 can be compared with GEO objects from electronic maps of the map data memory 221 for the detection of road sections subject to tolls.
  • GEO objects referred to as recognition objects, can be stored in the map data memory 221 as a line or a circle, two location information (in each case in longitude and latitude coordinates) linked with an identifier of the associated toll object.
  • the vehicle processor 110 recognizes the toll object linked to the identification object as being driven on by the vehicle 10 and generates a toll data set consisting of TDS from the identifier TOI-X (Toll Object Identifier X) of the toll object - in the case of Fig.
  • the collection time stamp TRT (Toll Recognition Time) of a time that was received by the on-board unit processor 110 from the radio clock 160 at the time of the toll detection, together with the vehicle registration number LPN-X (License Plate Number X) and The toll-relevant vehicle parameters TVP-X (Toll-relevant Vehicle Parameters X)
  • the toll that is to be paid for the TOI-X toll object with the vehicle parameters TVP-X can be part of the TDS data record.
  • This toll data record TDS is stored in a toll data memory 122 (see Fig. 7 ).
  • the toll data memory 122 can include a pre-paid toll credit that is reduced by the toll fee of the newly added toll data record.
  • the toll data record can be transmitted by means of the mobile radio transceiver 140 via a mobile radio network to the central toll collection device of an EETS toll provider, who sends the toll fee collected every month to the central toll collection device of an EETS toll operator (toll charger).
  • the identification of the toll object TOI-X represents the toll information according to the invention, which identifies a correct toll collection at the time TRT of the toll identification.
  • This toll collection is with the toll system according to the invention for a EETS toll operator in his toll center 50 can be checked quasi in-situ using the control method according to the invention without road-side control devices using the control information according to the invention available to him.
  • the central toll collection facility transmits a registration data record that contains a mobile communication address (mobile telephone number) of the vehicle device 100 and the vehicle registration number of the vehicle 10 contains in text form, to which the vehicle device 100 was initialized, to all central control devices 500 of all EETS toll operators whose areas are subject to the toll collection of the EETS toll service provider.
  • a registration data record that contains a mobile communication address (mobile telephone number) of the vehicle device 100 and the vehicle registration number of the vehicle 10 contains in text form, to which the vehicle device 100 was initialized, to all central control devices 500 of all EETS toll operators whose areas are subject to the toll collection of the EETS toll service provider.
  • registration data records are in accordance with RDS Fig. 7 of all EETS toll service providers in the central database of an on-board device data memory 520 (see Fig.
  • This registration data record RDS comprises a mobile phone number TSN (Tolling Equipment Subscriber Number) under which the vehicle device 100 can be dialed via the mobile network 40, a customer number CID (Customer Identification Data) of the customer to whom the vehicle device 100 was handed, text data LPN-1 ( License plate number 1) of the vehicle 10 that carries the on-board device 100, as well as toll-relevant vehicle parameters TVP-1 (Toll-Relevant Vehicle Parameters 1), which here contain the information on the permissible total weight ATW (Admissible Total Weight), the emission class PCL ( Pollution CLass) and combine for the number of axes AXC (AXIe Count).
  • the following section concerns the control cases, which can end with a positive control result (case A) as well as with a negative control result (case B).
  • the controlling, second vehicle 20 is traveling together with the tolled, first vehicle 10 on the toll road section 30 and is equipped with a decentralized control device 200.
  • the decentralized control device 200 comprises as a one-piece control device in a first variant of the exemplary embodiment according to FIG Fig. 3a with a decentralized processor 210, a GNSS receiver 230, a mobile radio transceiver 240, a radio clock 260, a map data memory 221 and a toll data memory 222, a first group of components that are also included in a vehicle device 100 provided for toll collection in the toll system.
  • the decentralized control device 200 designed as a one-piece control device with a distance sensor 250, an image recording device 270 designed as a digital camera and a control data memory 223 comprises a second group of components which are used solely for control purposes.
  • the decentralized control device 200 is separated into two separate structural units, namely a toll device 201 and a control unit 202, between which there is a data connection 205.
  • the toll device 201 comprises, analogously to the vehicle device 100 provided for toll collection, a toll processor 211, a GNSS receiver 230, a mobile radio transceiver 240, a radio clock 260, a map data memory 221 and a toll data memory 222.
  • the control unit 202 comprises a control processor 212, a distance sensor 250 , an image recording device 270 designed as a digital camera and a control data memory 223.
  • the toll processor 211 and the control processor 212 are connected to one another for data purposes via the data connection, which can be wired or wireless via a transceiver module in each of the structural units 201 and 202.
  • the third variant of the decentralized control device 200 shown differs from the first variant in that (a) it does not have a radio clock 260 and instead uses a time signal provided by the GNSS receiver, and (b) as an additional radio communication device a DSRC transceiver 245 comprises.
  • This DSRC transceiver 245 has a DSRC microwave antenna 247 for microwave operation and, alternatively for infrared operation, a symbolically represented DSRC transceiver module 247 with an IR light-emitting diode arrangement for sending and an IR photodiode arrangement for sending (not shown).
  • a symbolically represented DSRC transceiver module 247 with an IR light-emitting diode arrangement for sending and an IR photodiode arrangement for sending (not shown).
  • the decentralized processor 210 is configured to receive and process position data of the GNSS receiver 230 (which has a GNSS receiving antenna 232) and time data of the radio clock 260 (which has a radio clock antenna 262), with the cellular radio transceiver 240 (which has a mobile radio antenna 242) communicates and has read access to the map data memory 221 and read / write access to the toll data memory 222 and the control data memory.
  • the decentralized processor 210 of the decentralized control device 200 is configured to receive from the toll center 50 via the mobile radio transceiver 240 an area and time plan of different control areas that are to be subjected to a control of toll vehicles 10 by the controlling vehicle 20 at the same or different control periods are.
  • Stationary roadside DSRC beacons 46 and 47 are connected to the central control device 500 of the toll center 50 via a proprietary communication network or, alternatively, a public telephone network 45.
  • Portable - and thus in principle mobile - roadside DSRC beacons, only one of which 48 is shown, are in connection with the central control device 500 of the toll center 50 via the mobile radio network 40.
  • the central control device knows the positions of the DSRC beacons per se.
  • the central control device knows the positions of the DSRC beacons in that the mobile DSRC beacons receive their position, which they receive from a GNSS receiver that they each include, regularly or when they change position to the central office Send control device 500.
  • the central control device distributes control plans with control areas in the form of route section IDs, toll area IDs or control start and end positions, beacon-specific according to the position of the DSRC
  • the decentralized processor 210 recognizes on the basis of the position data supplied by the GNSS receiver 230 and the recognition objects of the map data memory 221 driving on the toll road section 30 and registers corresponding toll data for the controlling vehicle 20 as control information with an identifier TOI-2 (Toll Object Identifier 2) of the Toll object "toll road section 30" in the toll data memory provided with a time stamp TRT-2 of the time signal of the radio clock 260 ( Fig. 3a , 3b ) or the GNSS receiver 230 ( Figure 3c ).
  • TOI-2 Toll Object Identifier 2
  • TRT-2 time stamp of the time signal of the radio clock 260
  • Figure 3c the GNSS receiver 230
  • the decentralized processor 210 recognizes the presence of a control task for the current route section at the given time period.
  • the operating state of the decentralized control device 200 was the idle mode, in which the ability of the decentralized control device 200 to take pictures of its vehicle surroundings by means of the image recording device 270 is deactivated.
  • the decentralized processor 210 switches the decentralized control device from operation in the idle mode to operation in the control mode, in which the ability of the decentralized control device 200 to take pictures of its vehicle surroundings by means of the image recording device 270 is activated.
  • the GNSS receiver 230 continuously outputs speed data on the toll route section 30, which data is received by the decentralized processor 210 and compared with a predetermined threshold value of a limit speed of 80 km / h.
  • a predetermined threshold value of a limit speed of 80 km / h As a result of an increased volume of traffic on the toll route section 30, the driver of the checking vehicle 20 is forced to reduce his usual driving speed from 120 km / h to below 80 km / h.
  • the decentralized processor 210 is configured to activate the distance sensor 250 when the speed limit is undershot in order to record distance data on the distance to the vehicle 10 driving ahead and to transmit it to the decentralized processor 210, which records the measured distances with a predetermined threshold value of a maximum distance of 20 m compares.
  • the decentralized processor 210 can of course alternatively be configured to continuously receive distance data from the distance sensor 250 in the control mode in order to compare this with the predetermined threshold value of the maximum distance. As a result of the increased traffic volume, the vehicles 10 and 20 move closer together as the driving speed continues to decrease and the distance between the controlling vehicle 20 and the vehicle 10 in front drops to less than 20 m.
  • the decentralized processor 210 is configured to close the digital camera 270 when the maximum distance is not reached Activate, as long as the maximum distance is not reached, to display images every second of the surroundings in front of the second vehicle 20 in the direction of travel, in which the vehicle 10 in front is located, whereby the image also includes the vehicle 10 in front. An image recording of the first vehicle is thus available.
  • the decentralized processor 210 is configured to record images of the vehicle 10 traveling ahead every second as long as the distance between the second vehicle 20 and the first vehicle 10 is not below a minimum.
  • the decentralized processor 210 is configured to record a predefined number of images of the vehicle 10 traveling ahead every second, for example five. Each image recording is linked to a time stamp which includes the time data of the radio clock 260 at the time of the respective image recording. In addition, each image recording is linked to the location information according to the invention of the controlling vehicle, which the decentralized processor 210 takes from the toll data memory 222 as a toll object of the last toll collection. All image recordings are analyzed by the decentralized processor 210 for their image quality in terms of sharpness (resolution), contrast and brightness. Image recordings with sufficient image quality are subjected to a text recognition program by the decentralized processor, which extracts the vehicle license plate number of vehicle 10 in text form from the image recordings of the rear of vehicle 10.
  • a quality measure of the text recognition is determined for each image, which indicates the probability with which the determined vehicle registration number corresponds to the actual vehicle registration number of the vehicle 10.
  • VID Vehicle Image Data
  • LPN-1 Liense Plate Data 1
  • TOI-2 Image Acquisition Time
  • the image and text data of the other image recordings are discarded, i.e. deleted.
  • the data flow diagram of Fig. 5 subsequently, the second vehicle as the controlling vehicle has received image data from the first vehicle through the image recording of the first vehicle subject to the toll, from which it has obtained text data of the vehicle registration number of the vehicle subject to the toll.
  • the decentralized control device 200 now dials the decentralized control device 500 under the CSN (Central Subscriber Number) of the central control device 500 known to it and transmits this text data LPN-1 together with the time stamp IAT and the toll object TOI-2 of the image recording as an extract of the decentralized control data record SDS by means of the mobile radio transceiver 240 via a mobile radio network 40 to the toll center 50, where this control data record extract - without image data VID - is received by the central control device (central DVE) 500 via the communication interface 540 and made available to the central processor 510 (S100 in Figure 6a and Fig. 7 ).
  • the vehicle-side interface of the mobile radio network 40 is the base station 42, which is operated by a second mobile radio operator ( Fig. 1 ).
  • the communication connection between the controlling vehicle 20 and the toll center 50 is maintained until the central processor 510 completes the incoming inspection of the control data record excerpt with a positive, the control data record extract together with the mobile phone number SSN (Surveillance Equipment Subscriber Number) of the decentralized control device 200 as the central control data record CDS (Control Data Set) is stored in a central control data memory 523 and has transmitted a request to the decentralized processor 210 of the decentralized control device 200, from the toll fee stored in the toll data memory 222 of the toll object on which the second vehicle has been controlling, a decree of Deduct 10%.
  • SSN Service Equipment Subscriber Number
  • CDS Control Data Set
  • control case A which ends with a positive control result.
  • the central processor 510 of the central control device 500 uses the text data LPN-1 of the vehicle registration number contained in the central control data record CDS to determine the mobile phone number TSN stored in the registration database as the communication address of the vehicle device 100 by means of a corresponding database query the registration data records RDS of the vehicle device data memory 520 (S 200 in Figure 6a and Fig. 7 ).
  • the central processor 510 tries to set up a communication link to the vehicle device 100 of the vehicle 10 subject to the toll via its communication interface 540 (S 300 in Figure 6a and Fig. 7 ).
  • the communication link with the vehicle device 100 via its mobile radio transceiver 140 is established by the mobile radio network 40 via the base station 42 of a second mobile radio operator ( Fig. 1 ).
  • the central control device 500 requests the toll object TOI-X stored as location information in the toll data memory 122 of the vehicle device 100 from the first vehicle 10 subject to the toll, for which the last time a toll was collected in the vehicle device 100 before the time stamp IAT of the control data record SDS / CDS .
  • the vehicle device processor 110 determines that toll data record TDS whose time stamp TRT is closest to the time stamp IAT of the control data record SDS / CDS goes ahead.
  • the vehicle device 100 transmits this toll data record TDS by means of its mobile radio transceiver 140 together with the identifier TOI-X of the toll object carrying the desired location information of the toll road section 30, the collection time TRT, and the vehicle information, namely the vehicle registration number LPN-X and the toll-relevant vehicle parameters TVP- X, via the cellular network 40 to the central control device 500 (S 400 in Figure 6a and 7th ).
  • the central processor 510 compares the toll object TOI-X transmitted from the toll data record TDS of the toll vehicle 10 with that of the toll object TOI-2 of the control data record SDS / CDS of the controlling vehicle 20 and successfully determines that they match (S 500 in Figure 6b and 7th ).
  • the central processor 510 compares the vehicle information transmitted from the toll data record TDS of the vehicle subject to the toll, the text data of the vehicle registration number LPN-X and toll-relevant vehicle parameters TVP-X with the vehicle information of the text data of the vehicle registration number LPN-1 and the toll-relevant vehicle parameters TVP-1, which linked to the mobile phone number TSN of the vehicle device 100 are stored within the registration data record RDS in the registration data memory 520 and successfully establishes their agreement (S 600 in Figure 6b and 7th ).
  • the decentralized processor 210 is configured to process the decentralized control data record SDS, which is stored for this control in the control data memory 223 of the decentralized control device, after a predetermined storage period (deletion period) has elapsed from a certain point in time (that of the image acquisition, that of the dispatch of the control data extract the toll center 50 or that of the receipt of its acknowledgment of receipt). However, it is also configured to serve a deletion request that it receives at an earlier point in time due to a positively completed control from the central control device via the cellular network 40, before the specified storage period has expired by sending the decentralized control data record SDS, which is to this control is stored in the control data memory 223 of the decentralized control device, deleted before the predetermined storage period has expired. Such a deletion request is made by the toll center 50 by selecting the in the Central control data record CDS present mobile phone number SSN of the decentralized control device 200 sent to the controlling vehicle 20, received by the controlling vehicle 20 and served accordingly by the decentralized processor 210.
  • a negative control result can be used; and the central processor 510 and the decentral processor 210 are configured according to the invention in order to terminate the control method according to the invention in the event of a negative control result.
  • Step S200 is followed by a negative control result E101 if no mobile phone number TSN of a vehicle device is recorded in the database 520 of the central control device 500 for the vehicle license number LPN-1 transmitted with the control data record extract.
  • the vehicle 10 subject to the toll is neither registered with a toll service provider nor with the toll operator himself and is driving illegally on the route section 30 subject to the toll.
  • Step S300 is followed by a negative control result E101 if a connection to the vehicle device 100 cannot be set up under the recorded mobile radio number TSN.
  • a connection to the vehicle device 100 cannot be set up under the recorded mobile radio number TSN.
  • Step S400 is followed by a negative control result E101 if no toll information - in particular no toll data record TDS - is transmitted from vehicle device 100 to toll control center 50 despite the connection being set up. In this case, it can be assumed that the vehicle device 100 is switched on, but is not carried in the vehicle 10.
  • Step S400 is followed by a negative control result E101 if a comparison of the toll object TOI-X transmitted by the vehicle device 100 - as an example of location information for the first vehicle 10 subject to toll - with the toll object TOI-2 transmitted by the decentralized control device 200 - the location information of the controlling, second vehicle - by the central processor 510 there is no match.
  • the vehicle device 100 is switched on and is carried by the vehicle 10, but was switched off at the time of passing through an area in which the detection object assigned to the toll route section 30 is located and therefore not capable of being collected.
  • Such a circumstance leads to the vehicle device 100 transmitting a toll object from a toll collection dating back some time, which does not correspond to the current, controlled toll object.
  • Step S500 is followed by a negative control result E101 if a comparison of the vehicle registration number LPN-X transmitted by the vehicle device 100 with the vehicle registration number LPN-1 stored centrally for the vehicle device 100 under its mobile phone number TSN does not result in a match.
  • a comparison of the vehicle registration number LPN-X transmitted by the vehicle device 100 with the vehicle registration number LPN-1 stored centrally for the vehicle device 100 under its mobile phone number TSN does not result in a match.
  • the central control device 500 selects the decentralized control device 200 under its mobile phone number SSN, which is stored together with the control data record extract as a central control data record CDS in the central control data memory 523, and sends it a request for the image data of the toll vehicle 10 stored for the present control case to transfer the central control device 500 (S700 in Figure 6b and Fig. 7 ; Fig. 5 ).
  • the decentralized control device 200 adequately serves this request in that its decentralized processor 210 transmits a copy of the corresponding image data VID of the central control data record SDS from the control data memory 223 to the mobile radio transceiver 240 for transmission to the central control device 200.
  • the mobile communications connection between the controlling vehicle 20 and the toll center 50 is maintained until the central control device 500 has confirmed the receipt of the image data by sending a corresponding message to the decentralized control device 200, and the decentralized control device 200 has transmitted the request to transfer the control data set.
  • the central processor 210 has served this request by deleting it from the decentralized control data memory 223, the decentralized control device 200 has sent a confirmation of the deletion to the central control device 500 and the central control device 500 has sent an instruction to the decentralized control device 200 to cancel the toll levied for the controlled toll object in the toll data memory 222.
  • the processor 510 of the central control device 500 adds the image data VID to the central control data record CDS in order to provide them for documentation purposes in the context of investigation, administrative offense and / or criminal proceedings (S800 in Figure 6b and 7th ).
  • the decentralized control device 200 As long as the decentralized control device 200 is working in the control mode, it records an image of the surroundings of the vehicle 20 when the trigger condition is present.
  • the processor 210 puts the decentralized control device back into the idle mode when it determines, based on the comparison of position data provided by the GNSS receiver with the coordinates of the control area, that the vehicle 20 has left the control area. In the event that the mere receipt of a control task triggered the change to the control mode, the decentralized processor 210 puts the decentralized control device 200 back into the idle mode as soon as the control duration specified for the control task has expired.
  • the decentralized processor 210 can at least temporarily switch the decentralized control device 200 to the decentralized control device 200 when it detects a standstill or a too small distance of less than a vehicle length (5 meters) to a vehicle traveling ahead or behind Put it in sleep mode.
  • the decentralized processor can switch the decentralized control device back to the operation of the control mode as soon as the standstill is over or the distance has increased to ten vehicle lengths (50 meters).

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  1. Procédé de contrôle, destiné à vérifier le fonctionnement avec acquittement conforme du péage d'un premier véhicule soumis à péage (10) avec l'implication d'un deuxième véhicule (20) participant au trafic sur une route (30) pratiquée par le premier véhicule (10), et un système centralisé de traitement des données (500) dans un système de péage, qui utilise des dispositifs de télépéage (100) servant à prélever le péage, qui doivent être embarqués par les véhicules soumis à péage (10), qui s'ils fonctionnent selon les règles de l'art, génèrent au moins une information de péage qui est représentative pour la pratique de la route (30) ou d'un territoire englobant ladite route (30) par les véhicules soumis à péage (10),
    caractérisé en ce que
    le deuxième véhicule (20)
    - génère automatiquement pendant son déplacement sur la route (30) au moins une information de contrôle, qui est représentative pour la pratique de la route (30) ou d'un territoire englobant ladite route (30) par le deuxième véhicule (20),
    - élabore automatiquement pendant son déplacement sur la route (30) un cliché du premier véhicule (10),
    - à partir des données d'image du cliché élaboré par le premier véhicule (10), détermine les données de texte d'une immatriculation de véhicule du premier véhicule (10), et
    - transmet les données de texte de l'immatriculation de véhicule du premier véhicule (10) et l'information de contrôle via un réseau de radiotéléphonie mobile (40) au système centralisé de traitement des données (500)
    et
    le système centralisé de traitement des données (500)
    - utilise les données de texte de l'immatriculation de véhicule du premier véhicule (10) transmises par le deuxième véhicule (20) pour déterminer une adresse de communication de radiotéléphonie mobile d'un dispositif de télépéage (100) rattachée à l'immatriculation de véhicule et
    - via cette dernière, tente via un réseau de radiotéléphonie mobile (40) de solliciter de la part du dispositif de télépéage (100) au moins une information de péage qui est déterminante pour son fonctionnement selon les règles de l'art,
    - compare ladite au moins une information de péage du dispositif de télépéage (100) avec l'information de contrôle qui a été mise à la disposition de système centralisé de traitement des données (500) par le deuxième véhicule (20), conjointement avec les données de texte de l'immatriculation de véhicule du premier véhicule (10), et
    - en cas d'échec de cette comparaison, via un réseau de radiotéléphonie mobile (40), sollicite de la part du deuxième véhicule (20) les données d'image de la prise de vue sur lesquelles a été basée la détermination des données de texte de l'immatriculation de véhicule du premier véhicule (10).
  2. Procédé de contrôle selon la revendication 1,
    caractérisé en ce que
    - l'information de contrôle est une deuxième information de localisation du deuxième véhicule (20), qui est en corrélation temporaire avec la prise de vue du premier véhicule (10) via un moment de la prise de vue (IAT) qui est transmise par le deuxième véhicule au système centralisé de traitement des données, et
    - l'information de péage du premier véhicule (10) est une première information de localisation,
    étant prévu que
    le système centralisé de traitement des données (500) transmet au dispositif de télépéage (100), conjointement avec la sollicitation de la première information de localisation le moment de la prise de vue (IAT), pour solliciter de la part du dispositif de télépéage (100) parmi plusieurs premières informations de localisation ladite première information de localisation sélectionnée, qui est le mieux en corrélation dans le temps avec le moment de la prise de vue (IAT), et pour comparer la première information de localisation sélectionnée obtenue de la part du dispositif de télépéage (100) avec la deuxième information de localisation de la prise de vue.
  3. Procédé de contrôle selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que
    la deuxième information de localisation comprend des données de position d'une position de véhicule ou de plusieurs positions de véhicule (VPD-Y) du deuxième véhicule (20), qui par rapport aux données de position d'autres positions de véhicule du deuxième véhicule (20) sont les plus proches dans le temps du moment de la prise de vue (IAT), et la première information de localisation sélectionnée comprend des données de position d'une première position de véhicule ou de plusieurs premières positions de véhicule (VPD-X) du premier véhicule (10), qui par rapport aux données de position d'autres premières positions de véhicule du premier véhicule (10) sont les plus proches dans le temps du moment de la prise de vue (IAT).
  4. Procédé de contrôle selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que
    la deuxième information de localisation comprend l'identification d'un deuxième objet à péage (TOI-Y) identifié comme étant pratiqué par le deuxième véhicule (20), qui est rattaché à un moment d'identification (TRT-Y), qui au niveau de son rang dans le temps précède de la manière la plus proche dans le temps le moment de la prise de vue (IAT) par rapport aux moments d'identification d'autres deuxièmes objets à péage, identifiés comme étant pratiqués par le deuxième véhicule (20),
    la première information de localisation sélectionnée comprend l'identification d'un premier objet à péage (TOI-X) identifié comme étant pratiqué par le premier véhicule (10), qui est rattaché à un moment d'identification (TRT-X), qui au niveau de son rang dans le temps précède de la manière la plus proche dans le temps le moment de la prise de vue (IAT) par rapport à des moments d'identification d'autres premiers objets à péage identifiés comme étant pratiqués par le premier véhicule (10).
  5. Procédé de contrôle selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que
    le deuxième véhicule (20) prend le cliché du premier véhicule (10) suite à une identification automatique d'au moins une condition de déclenchement, en présence de laquelle il détecte une valeur de mesure et par comparaison avec une valeur de référence, vérifie la satisfaction à la condition de déclenchement.
  6. Procédé de contrôle selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce que
    le deuxième véhicule (20) prend le cliché du premier véhicule (10) lors d'un fonctionnement du deuxième véhicule (20) dans un mode de contrôle,
    et change d'un fonctionnement en mode veille, dans lequel la prise de vue n'est pas possible dans le fonctionnement en un mode de contrôle, dans lequel la prise de vue est possible, en identifiant automatiquement la satisfaction à l'au moins une condition pour ledit changement et suite à ladite identification, procède automatiquement au changement du mode de fonctionnement.
  7. Procédé de contrôle selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que
    le deuxième véhicule (20) réceptionne sous la forme d'un plan de contrôle via un réseau de radiocommunication (40, 45) de la part du système centralisé de traitement des données (500) une condition pour le changement du fonctionnement en mode veille dans le fonctionnement en mode de contrôle, le plan de contrôle contenant la description ou l'identification d'au moins un tronçon de trajet soumis à péage qui doit être contrôlé ou d'au moins un territoire soumis à péage qui doit être contrôlé, et le deuxième véhicule (20) identifiant qu'il pratique un tronçon de trajet soumis à péage ou un territoire soumis à péage concordant avec celui du plan de contrôle et suite à cette identification, changeant du fonctionnement en mode veille dans le fonctionnement en mode de contrôle.
  8. Système de contrôle centralisé (500) d'un système de péage, qui utilise des dispositifs de télépéage (100) servant à prélever le péage, qui doivent être embarqués par les véhicules soumis à péage (10), qui s'ils fonctionnent selon les règles de l'art, génèrent au moins une information de péage qui est représentative pour la pratique d'un tronçon de trajet soumis à péage ou d'un territoire soumis à péage par les véhicules soumis à péage (10),
    le système de contrôle centralisé (500) comportant au moins une interface de communication (540) vers au moins un réseau de radiotéléphonie mobile (40), par l'intermédiaire de laquelle une liaison de communication avec au moins un premier véhicule (10) et un deuxième véhicule (20) peut être établie, ainsi qu'une base de données centralisée (520) et un processeur centralisé (510),
    caractérisé en ce que le processeur centralisé (510) est configuré pour
    - recevoir des données de texte de l'immatriculation de véhicule du premier véhicule (10) transmises par le deuxième véhicule (20) via l'interface de communication (540) et au moins une information de contrôle, qui est représentative pour la pratique d'un tronçon de trajet soumis à péage ou d'un territoire soumis à péage par le deuxième véhicule (20),
    - par une interrogation de la base de données centralisée (520), tenter via les données de texte de l'immatriculation de véhicule du premier véhicule (10) de déterminer une adresse de communication de radiotéléphonie mobile d'un dispositif de télépéage (100),
    - sélectionner le dispositif de télépéage (100) sous ladite adresse de communication de radiotéléphonie mobile,
    - solliciter de la part du dispositif de télépéage (100) via le réseau de radiotéléphonie mobile (40) au moins une information de péage déterminante pour son fonctionnement selon les règles de l'art,
    - comparer ladite information de péage du dispositif de télépéage (100) avec l'au moins une information de contrôle du deuxième véhicule (20), et
    - en cas d'échec de cette comparaison, solliciter via l'interface de communication (540) de la part du deuxième véhicule (20) des données d'image d'une prise de vue du premier véhicule (10) établie par le deuxième véhicule (20), sur lesquelles a été basée l'obtention de données de texte de l'immatriculation de véhicule du premier véhicule (10) par le deuxième véhicule (20).
  9. Système de contrôle centralisé (500) selon la revendication 8, caractérisé en ce que
    le processeur centralisé (510) est configuré pour constater un échec de la comparaison si
    i) une interrogation de la base de données centralisée (520) concernant l'adresse de communication de radiotéléphonie mobile d'un dispositif de télépéage (100) à l'aide des données de texte de l'immatriculation de véhicule du premier véhicule (10) ne fournit aucun résultat,
    ii) la tentative d'établir à l'aide de l'adresse de communication de radiotéléphonie mobile déterminée, via l'interface de communication (540) une liaison de communication avec le dispositif de télépéage (100) échoue,
    iii) le dispositif de télépéage (100) ne donne pas suite à une interrogation du dispositif de télépéage (100), pour la mise à disposition d'au moins une information de péage, ou
    iv) la comparaison d'une information de péage transmise par le dispositif de télépéage (100) avec l'information de contrôle transmise par le deuxième véhicule (20) ne donne pas une concordance suffisante dans le cadre d'une divergence maximale prédéfinie entre l'information de péage et l'information de contrôle.
  10. Système de contrôle centralisé (500) selon la revendication 8 ou 9, caractérisé en ce que
    le système de contrôle centralisé est configuré pour transmettre au deuxième véhicule (20) via un réseau de radiocommunication (40, 45) un plan de contrôle, qui contient la description ou l'identification d'au moins un tronçon de trajet soumis à péage qui doit être contrôlé ou d'au moins un territoire soumis à péage qui doit être contrôlé et à l'aide duquel le deuxième véhicule (20) est avisé de ne prendre d'éventuelles prises de vue du premier véhicule (10) que seulement sur le tronçon de trajet soumis à péage qui doit être contrôlé ou sur le territoire soumis à péage qui doit être contrôlé qui est pratiqué par le deuxième véhicule (20) et identifie comme étant pratiqué par lui.
  11. Système de contrôle décentralisé (200) d'un véhicule (20), doté d'un dispositif de détermination de position (230), d'un dispositif de radiocommunication mobile (240), d'un système de prise de vue (270) et d'au moins un processeur décentralisé (210),
    caractérisé en ce que
    le processeur décentralisé (210) est configuré pour
    - obtenir et enregistrer à partir de ou avec des données du dispositif de détermination de position (230) au moins une information de contrôle qui est représentative pour la présence du véhicule sur un tronçon de trajet soumis à péage ou dans un territoire soumis à péage,
    - aviser le système de prise de vue (270) pour la prise d'un cliché d'un autre véhicule (10) se trouvant dans l'environnement du véhicule (20),
    - déterminer des données de texte d'une immatriculation de véhicule de l'autre véhicule (10) à partir des données d'image de la prise de vue de l'autre véhicule (10),
    - transmettre lesdites données de texte d'une immatriculation de véhicule et l'information de contrôle via le dispositif de radiocommunication mobile (240) à un système centralisé de traitement des données (500) et
    - suite à une sollicitation de la part du système centralisé de traitement des données (500), transmettre au système centralisé de traitement des données (500) les données d'image de la prise de vue de l'autre véhicule (10) sur lesquelles a été basée l'obtention des données de texte de l'immatriculation de véhicule de l'autre véhicule (10).
  12. Système de contrôle décentralisé (200) selon la revendication 11, caractérisé en ce que
    le processeur décentralisé (210) est configuré pour
    transmettre les données de texte de l'immatriculation de véhicule, conjointement avec une information du moment de prise de vue (IAT) à un système centralisé de traitement des données (500),
    et parmi plusieurs informations de contrôle, sélectionner l'information de contrôle sélectionnée pour la transmission au système centralisé de traitement des données (500), qui au niveau de son moment d'enregistrement est la plus proche dans le temps ou précède de manière la plus proche dans le temps le moment de prise de vue (IAT) par rapport à d'autres informations de contrôle.
  13. Système de contrôle décentralisé (200) selon la revendication 11 ou 12, caractérisé par au moins un capteur (260), qui détecte au moins un état de véhicule du véhicule (20), le processeur décentralisé (210) étant configuré pour aviser le système de prise de vue (260) pour la prise d'un cliché de l'autre véhicule (10), en fonction de l'au moins un état de véhicule détecté par le capteur (260).
  14. Système de contrôle décentralisé (200) selon la revendication 13, caractérisé en ce que
    le capteur (250) est conçu pour mettre à la disposition du processeur décentralisé (210) au moins une valeur de mesure de l'état de véhicule,
    le processeur décentralisé (210) est configuré pour réceptionner ladite valeur de mesure et pour la comparer avec une valeur de référence concernant la satisfaction à la condition de déclenchement, et en cas de satisfaction, pour générer un signal de déclenchement, et
    le système de prise de vue est conçu pour réceptionner le signal de déclenchement et suite à sa réception, pour prendre le cliché.
  15. Système de contrôle décentralisé (200) selon la revendication 13 ou 14, caractérisé en ce que le capteur (250)
    a) est un capteur de vitesse qui détecte la vitesse du véhicule (20), le processeur décentralisé (210) étant configuré pour, en présence d'une vitesse du véhicule inférieure à une vitesse limite, aviser le système de prise de vue (270) pour la prise d'un cliché de l'autre véhicule (10),
    b) est un capteur de distance, qui détecte la distance du véhicule (20) par rapport à l'autre véhicule (10), le processeur décentralisé (210) étant configuré pour, en présence d'une distance entre véhicules inférieure à une distance maximale, aviser le système de prise de vue (270) pour la prise d'un cliché de l'autre véhicule (10), ou
    c) est un capteur d'accélération, qui détecte l'accélération du véhicule (20) en fonction du temps et l'intègre dans le temps à une valeur de variation de la vitesse, le processeur décentralisé (210) étant configuré pour, en présence d'une valeur de variation de vitesse négative, qui au niveau de son montant est supérieure à une valeur de variation de vitesse prédéfinie, minimale au niveau de son montant, aviser le système de prise de vue (270) pour la prise d'un cliché de l'autre véhicule (10).
  16. Système de contrôle décentralisé (200) selon l'une quelconque des revendications 13 à 15, caractérisé en ce que
    le système de contrôle décentralisé (200) est configuré de telle sorte
    que la prise de vue du système de prise de vue (270) n'ait lieu que lors d'un fonctionnement du système de contrôle décentralisé (200) dans un mode de contrôle, et
    le processeur décentralisé (210) est configuré
    - pour amener le système de contrôle décentralisé (200) d'un fonctionnement en mode veille, dans lequel la prise de vue n'est pas possible, dans un fonctionnement en mode de contrôle, dans lequel la prise de vue est possible, et inversement,
    - pour identifier automatiquement la satisfaction à au moins une condition prédéfinie qui est nécessaire pour procéder au changement du mode de fonctionnement du système de contrôle décentralisé (200), et
    - pour procéder automatiquement au changement du mode de fonctionnement, en cas d'identification de la satisfaction à l'au moins une condition prédéfinie.
  17. Système de contrôle décentralisé (200) selon la revendication 16, caractérisé en ce que
    le processeur décentralisé (210) est configuré pour
    - identifier à partir de l'information de contrôle la présence du système de contrôle décentralisé (200) sur un tronçon de trajet soumis à péage ou dans un territoire soumis à péage,
    - initier un changement du système de contrôle décentralisé (200) du fonctionnement en mode veille dans le fonctionnement en mode de contrôle, lorsque le système de contrôle décentralisé (200) arrive sur le tronçon de trajet soumis à péage ou dans le territoire soumis à péage, ou pour maintenir la fonction du système de contrôle décentralisé (200) dans le mode de contrôle, aussi longtemps que le système de contrôle décentralisé (200) est présent sur le tronçon de trajet soumis à péage ou dans le territoire soumis à péage, et
    - initier un changement du système de contrôle décentralisé (200) du fonctionnement en mode de contrôle dans le fonctionnement en mode veille, lorsque le système de contrôle décentralisé (200) quitte le tronçon de trajet soumis à péage ou le territoire soumis à péage, ou pour maintenir le fonctionnement en mode veille aussi longtemps que le système de contrôle décentralisé (200) n'est pas présent sur le tronçon de trajet soumis à péage ou dans le territoire soumis à péage.
  18. Système de contrôle décentralisé (200) selon la revendication 16 ou 17, caractérisé en ce que
    le processeur décentralisé (210) est configuré pour
    - sauvegarder dans une mémoire de données du système de contrôle décentralisé (200) un plan de contrôle, qui contient la description ou l'identification d'au moins un tronçon de trajet soumis à péage qui doit être contrôlé ou d'au moins un territoire soumis à péage qui doit être contrôlé et qui a été réceptionné via un dispositif de communication (240, 245) par l'un système centralisé de traitement des données (500),
    - identifier la présence du système de contrôle décentralisé sur un tronçon de trajet soumis à péage ou un territoire soumis à péage concordant avec celui du plan de contrôle et
    - suite à cette identification, faire passer le système de contrôle décentralisé (200) du fonctionnement en mode veille dans le fonctionnement en mode de contrôle.
  19. Système de péage, caractérisé par des dispositifs de télépéage (100) qui doivent être embarqués par des véhicules (10) pour le prélèvement des péages, un système de contrôle centralisé (500) selon l'une quelconque des revendications 7 à 10 et au moins un véhicule (20) doté d'un système de contrôle décentralisé (200) selon l'une quelconque des revendications 11 à 18.
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