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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2019
Mark W. Publicover, Saratoga, CA (US);
William Knight Foster, Saratoga, CA (US);
Mark W. Publicover, Saratoga, CA (US);
William Knight Foster, Saratoga, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A traffic and parking management system is in signal communication with vehicles to direct them to park in specific locations that are under the systems authority. The system tracks and determines the availability of parking spaces via a digital camera network, and then allocates spaces based on need, predicted availability, and predicted arrival time at a preferred destination or vicinity. The vehicles are directed to the space so allocated, and in the case of a pay for parking system, billed by the system. The traffic and parking management system operates in conjunction with a smart traffic control device which transmits information to approaching vehicles regarding its current and future state enabling vehicles to control their speed to avoid arriving at the traffic control device until it permits the passage of traffic, thus avoiding stopping, idling and reaccelerating when reaching the traffic control device.