High occupancy vehicle restriction aware navigation system

摘要

A vehicle navigation system ( 100 ) is provided for storing high occupancy vehicle restriction values for sections of road. The system may include seat occupancy sensors ( 130 ) that indicate whether seats in the vehicle are occupied. The system may also include a processor ( 110 ) that determines the number of occupants in the vehicle based on signals from the seat occupancy sensors ( 130 ) or input from a user. The processor ( 110 ) may determine whether the vehicle is authorized to traverse a section of road based on a high occupancy vehicle restriction value for the section of road and the number of occupants in the vehicle. The system may also include a display ( 140 ) and/or a speaker ( 150 ) so that the processor may communicate to a user whether the vehicle is authorized to travel on the section of the road.