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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2008
Rick A. Hamilton, Ii, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Naveen Lamba, Haymarket, VA (US);
Colin Fung Wan Lim, Twickenham, GB;
Benjamin G. Morris, Falls Church, VA (US);
James W. Seaman, Falls Church, VA (US);
Vinodh K. Swaminathan, Riverside, CT (US);
Rick A. Hamilton, II, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Naveen Lamba, Haymarket, VA (US);
Colin Fung Wan Lim, Twickenham, GB;
Benjamin G. Morris, Falls Church, VA (US);
James W. Seaman, Falls Church, VA (US);
Vinodh K. Swaminathan, Riverside, CT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Variable thoroughfare toll rates are applied in anticipation of an event impacting traffic flow. An event occurrence is identified and determined to cause a change in a normal traffic flow amount on an impacted section of a thoroughfare. A traveler is notified of the impacted section of the thoroughfare in association with an impacted section-choice toll rate, a bypass choice in association with a bypass-choice toll rate, and a future time period duration for an application of the bypass-choice and impacted section-choice rates. A notified traveler is charged a toll for using the thoroughfare as a function of the bypass-choice rate in response to choosing to travel upon the presented bypass choice, or as a function of an impacted section-choice toll rate in response choosing to travel upon the presented impacted section choice.