System for Incentive Eligibility and Validation for Transport Demand Management (TDM) programs
The present invention is a method and system to confirm commuter eligibility for municipal transportation incentives. In an embodiment the present invention uses a Reward Threshold in combination with an API-bearing mobile device to create and send positional, temporal, and identifying information to a central Server. The Server maintains a record of information received and uses said information to apportion and track progress toward municipal transportation incentives. Upon a user's accumulation of a pre-authorized number, type, or kind of awards, the Server determines a user's having qualified for one or more rewards and/or incentives and enables redemption thereof.
1 . A method for confirming and incentivizing commuter behavior, comprising:
communicating to a server proximity confirmation of one or more mobile devices to one or more reward thresholds;
communicating to the server unique location information of the one or more reward thresholds;
maintaining a record of reward threshold communication;
calculating reward eligibility based upon a supplied algorithm; and
communicating calculated reward via a user interface.
2 . The method of claim 1 where the mobile devices include any device equipped with a radio frequency (RF) transmitter module.
3 . The method of claim 1 where the proximity confirmation is determined wholly or in part by application of geo-fencing, GPS validation, sensor validation, stand-alone beacons, custom signals such as beacon to phone signaling, and mobile device Bluetooth beacons, whether applied singly or in combination.
4 . The method of claim 1 where communications to mobile devices are received through a mobile application.
5 . The method of claim 1 where a user may accumulate multiple rewards.
6 . The method of claim 1 where reward eligibility may be accurately calculated regardless of a user's mode of transportation.
7 . A system of verifying and incentivizing commuter behavior, comprising:
a user interface;
one or more mobile devices;
one or more reward thresholds;
a server having a processor in wireless communication with one or more mobile devices and one or more reward thresholds;
the one or more reward thresholds communicating proximity confirmation of the one or more mobile devices to the server;
the one or more reward thresholds communicating unique location information to the server;
maintaining a record of reward threshold communication;
calculating reward eligibility based upon a supplied algorithm; and
communicating calculated reward via the user interface.
8 . The system of claim 7 where the mobile devices include any device equipped with a radio frequency (RF) transmitter module.
9 . The system of claim 7 where the proximity confirmation is determined wholly or in part by application of geo-fencing, GPS validation, sensor validation, stand-alone beacons, custom signals such as beacon to phone signaling, and mobile device Bluetooth beacons, whether applied singly or in combination.
10 . The system of claim 7 where the user interface is a mobile application.
11 . The method of claim 7 where a user may accumulate multiple rewards.
12 . The method of claim 7 where reward eligibility may be accurately calculated regardless of a user's mode of transportation.