Title: Traffic merging method and means

Abstract: Two crowded single file traffic lanes of electronically speed-controlled vehicles are merged at a merge point by electronically establishing gaps sufficient to accept vehicles between the vehicles of each lane before they approach the merge point. The vehicles of one lane are then electronically guided into the gaps of the other as they pass the merge point. Lane-side transmitters and receivers along each lane cooperate with the vehicles to control the spacing between the vehicles in the approach toward the merge point. The gaps are established and the vehicles guided by signalling electronic images of each vehicle to the other lane and by guiding each vehicle as if the imaged vehicle were an actual vehicle in front of it.

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Inventors: Hermann, Walter (Weissenfeld, DT)
Kraus, Peter (Munich, DT)

Application Number: 382553
Filing Date: 1973-07-25
Publication_date: 1976-03-02
Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH (DT)
Primary Class(es): 180/168 246/167R, 340/932
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US Patent Ref:

3403634	Oct, 1968	Crowder	104/138.
3442347	May, 1969	Hodgson	180/98.
3537401	Nov, 1970	Metzner	104/149.
3650216	Mar, 1972	Harwick	104/166.
3771463	Nov, 1973	Smoot	104/155.
3790780	Feb, 1974	Helmcke	246/187.
3796871	Mar, 1974	Helmcke	246/167.

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Primary Examiner: Song, Robert R.
Assistant Examiner: Siemens, Terrance L.
Attorney: Toren, McGeady and Stanger