An autonomous vehicle includes a control system for remotely controlling the same. The autonomous vehicle includes an autonomous driving control apparatus having a processor that is configured to transmit an emergency request message to a control system when an emergency occurs to an emergency patient in the vehicle during autonomous driving, and the autonomous driving control apparatus is configured to direct the autonomous vehicle to follow a path with a shortest estimated required time among a contact path with an ambulance, a contact path with a neighboring vehicle capable of first aid, or a travel path to a hospital depending on remote control of the control system.

A method for securing communication between at least two participants, each having an identification and a safeguard and communicate therewith, in encrypted form involves the participants exchanging exchange their identification. At least one of the participants communicates its position in addition to its identification to the other participant. The position of the participant being determined or queried by the other participant without any assistance on the part of the participant, the participant then validating the other participant based on a comparison of the communicated position and the determined or queried position.

A method is disclosed. A data set including: (a) identifiers of a set of incidents occurring within a defined geographic region to which at least one service provider responded during a first time period and (b) address data identifying a location within the geographic region of each said incident of the set is retrieved over a network. An instruction to generate a heat map of the incidents occurring within the geographic region during the first time period is received from a user via a user interface generated to a display device. In response to the instruction to generate the heat map, the address data is converted to GPS data. A heat map of an aerial view of the geographic region based on the GPS data is generated. The heat map is displayed to the display device in a user interface.

A method is disclosed. A data set including: (a) identifiers of a set of incidents occurring within a defined geographic region to which at least one service provider responded during a first time period and (b) address data identifying a location within the geographic region of each said incident of the set is retrieved over a network. An instruction to generate a heat map of the incidents occurring within the geographic region during the first time period is received from a user via a user interface generated to a display device. In response to the instruction to generate the heat map, the address data is converted to GPS data. A heat map of an aerial view of the geographic region based on the GPS data is generated. The heat map is displayed to the display device in a user interface.

A device may receive three-dimensional geographical map data for a geographical region associated with a vehicle device of a vehicle and may process the three-dimensional geographical map data, with a data model, to transform the three-dimensional geographical map data into transformed geographical map data with a format that corresponds to a particular standard. The device may generate a message based on the transformed geographical map data and may cause the message to be provided to the vehicle device. The device may perform one or more actions based on the message.

A processing unit segments the route into a plurality of sections. It is, for each section, obtains a set of route section characteristic values, R.sub.SCV, that will impact the energy consumption of the vehicle whilst driving within the section, obtains a set of vehicle energy consumption values, V.sub.ECV, that will impact the energy consumption of the vehicle whilst driving within the section at least partly based on R.sub.SCV, estimates a first probability distribution, P.sub.1, of the energy consumption for the vehicle whilst driving within the section based on R.sub.SCV, V.sub.ECV, and a first set of traffic information values, T.sub.1, within the section, estimates a second probability distribution, P.sub.2, of the energy consumption for the vehicle whilst driving within the section based on R.sub.SCV, V.sub.ECV, and a second set of traffic information values, T.sub.2, within the section, estimates a traffic flow indicator, I.sub.TF, for the section based on R.sub.SCV, V.sub.ECV and a third set of traffic information values, T.sub.3, within the section, and determines a route section probability distribution, P.sub.RS, of the energy consumption for the vehicle whilst driving within the section based on the relation between I.sub.TF, P.sub.1, and P.sub.2.

A processing unit segments the route into a plurality of sections. It is, for each section, obtains a set of route section characteristic values, R.sub.SCV, that will impact the energy consumption of the vehicle whilst driving within the section, obtains a set of vehicle energy consumption values, V.sub.ECV, that will impact the energy consumption of the vehicle whilst driving within the section at least partly based on R.sub.SCV, estimates a first probability distribution, P.sub.1, of the energy consumption for the vehicle whilst driving within the section based on R.sub.SCV, V.sub.ECV, and a first set of traffic information values, T.sub.1, within the section, estimates a second probability distribution, P.sub.2, of the energy consumption for the vehicle whilst driving within the section based on R.sub.SCV, V.sub.ECV, and a second set of traffic information values, T.sub.2, within the section, estimates a traffic flow indicator, I.sub.TF, for the section based on R.sub.SCV, V.sub.ECV and a third set of traffic information values, T.sub.3, within the section, and determines a route section probability distribution, P.sub.RS, of the energy consumption for the vehicle whilst driving within the section based on the relation between I.sub.TF, P.sub.1, and P.sub.2.

A method for determining a lateral position of a vehicle passing a road and carrying a transponder uses at least two antennas mounted at different lateral positions and connected to a processor and comprises: triggering the transponder and recording signals from responses of the transponder by the processor, each signal being received via one of the antennas and recorded as i) a time of receipt at said one antenna and ii) the lateral position of said one antenna; generating by the processor a regression curve fitting all recorded signals; and determining by the processor the lateral position of the vehicle from the generated regression curve. An apparatus implementing said method is also disclosed.

A method for anonymizing movement data of road users equipped with a position detection device involves collecting movement data in the form of individual time- and position-related data records and transmitting the collected movement data to a backend server. At least some data records are transmitted indirectly via at least one other vehicle, or the position or time reference in at least some data records is made noisy prior to the transmission.

A data transmission device includes a wireless communication unit that wirelessly communicates with an external communication device, a travel route information acquirer that acquires a future travel route of a moving object, a travel route, a propagation environment information acquirer that acquires propagation environment information of a radio wave propagation path used in wireless communication, a speed information acquisition unit that acquires the moving speed of a moving object, and a converter that converts a relationship between the travel route and propagation environment information into a plurality of data slots each defined by the communication speed per unit time; a transmission instructor that instructs the wireless communication unit to transmit the data allocated to the data slot.