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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2005
Jayendra S. Parikh, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
Hariharan Krishnan, Troy, MI (US);
Martin A. Ferman, Huntington Woods, MI (US);
Jayendra S. Parikh, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
Hariharan Krishnan, Troy, MI (US);
Martin A. Ferman, Huntington Woods, MI (US);
GM Global Technology Operations, Inc., Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A probe-vehicle traffic information system for and method of gathering traffic data utilizing a host probe vehicle having onboard exterior sensors. The host vehicle is configured to detect at least one condition from at least one traveling target vehicle, aggregate and process the condition data, and report only the processed data to a traffic information center, so as to reduce the number of simultaneous communication channels typically required to report condition data from a plurality of probe vehicles.