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Request
A priority participant shares the trip goal, urgency, desired time saving, and value limit.
U.S. patent pending
Traffic moves better when cooperation has value.
The Transactional Traffic Mediator is a proposed coordination layer that identifies safe, lane-level micro-maneuvers, offers individualized rewards to participating vehicles, verifies that each action happened, and settles value only after successful completion.
StatusU.S. Patent Pending
The opportunity
Road space is scarce. Cooperation is unpriced.
Navigation software can suggest a faster route, but it normally treats the vehicles around us as passive obstacles. It cannot ask nearby participants to safely create and preserve the precise gaps needed for a vehicle to pass.
This concept introduces a voluntary marketplace and control layer for small traffic actions: create a gap, hold position, delay a merge, move into an available space, or yield when safe.
The goal is not reckless speed. It is coordinated, safety-conditioned movement that makes better use of the road already available.
The coordination loop
From a travel request to a verified result
Five connected stages turn a general need to move into a set of specific, voluntary, and verifiable micro-maneuvers.
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Coordinate
The mediator calculates a safety-conditioned set of nearby maneuvers that can form one temporary corridor.
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Offer
Each assisting participant receives a role-specific offer and may accept, decline, or counter.
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Verify
Positioning, telemetry, cameras, radar, lidar, ranging, or V2X evidence confirms the promised action.
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Settle
Only a verified result releases compensation or records credit for later settlement.
The inventive focus
Not simply paying for a faster route
The concept centers on a verified, multi-vehicle marketplace for specific physical actions at lane level.
Multi-vehicle choreography
The mediator can assign different roles to multiple assisting vehicles—such as opening a forward gap, preserving a rear gap, or moving into an available space—so the separate actions create one usable corridor.
Individualized value
One blanket price does not fit every participant. Offers can reflect position, inconvenience, expected delay, maneuver complexity, urgency, supply, and demand for each assigned role.
Verification before value
An accepted offer is only a promise. The system is designed to combine location, ranging, telemetry, camera, radar, lidar, or V2X evidence before treating the physical action as completed.
Deferred settlement
Verified events can produce credits or tokens that settle later or in a batch. That keeps payment friction out of the few seconds when traffic coordination must remain simple.
Safety-conditioned execution
The economic layer never replaces the safety layer. A maneuver remains subject to traffic law, current road conditions, participant discretion, and independent approval by vehicle safety systems.
Human and autonomous ready
The architecture can bridge phones, vehicle displays, assisted-driving systems, fleets, connected vehicles, and autonomous vehicles instead of depending on a fully self-driving future.
From promise to proof
Where this concept takes traffic coordination further
Existing approaches may optimize a route, negotiate one lane change, or coordinate connected vehicles. The patent-pending concept focuses on the complete transaction around a real, multi-vehicle result.
Route priority
A system may sell faster routing, priority signals, or access to a preferred path.
Lane-level action market
The value attaches to specific physical acts by nearby vehicles—not merely to choosing a route.
One vehicle, one gap
A conventional lane-change method can focus on one requester and one cooperating vehicle.
One corridor, several roles
Multiple participants can receive complementary assignments that work as a coordinated set.
One published incentive
A uniform reward may ignore the different cost or inconvenience borne by each participant.
Individualized negotiation
Role-specific offers, bids, and counteroffers can value each participant separately.
Acceptance as completion
A digital agreement does not prove that the promised real-world movement happened.
Sensor-gated compensation
Value is released only after the system verifies the agreed physical result.
Future-only automation
Some coordination models assume every participating vehicle is highly automated.
Mixed-road interoperability
Human, assisted, connected, fleet, and autonomous participants can share the same coordination layer.
Designed for real roads
A flexible layer above vehicles and infrastructure
The disclosed system can combine multiple communications, sensing, and interface technologies without depending on a single implementation.
Possible system inputs
- GPS, GNSS, inertial sensing, and map data
- UWB and Bluetooth Channel Sounding
- Vehicle telemetry, cameras, radar, and lidar
- V2V, V2I, C-V2X, and roadside infrastructure
- Mobile, aftermarket, fleet, and OEM interfaces
Safety remains the gate
- No instruction overrides traffic law.
- Human participants retain discretion.
- Automated systems independently approve safe execution.
- Unsafe or infeasible maneuver plans can be rejected.
- Verification helps discourage false completion claims.
Intellectual property
Patent pending in the United States
The Transactional Traffic Mediator is patent pending in the United States.
The application describes systems and methods for generating, pricing, assigning, verifying, and compensating coordinated lane-level micro-maneuvers, including embodiments for human-driven, assisted, connected, and autonomous vehicles.
Inventor: Benny Goldstein
Benny Labs Foundation initiative
Help move the idea from patent to pilot.
Benny Labs Foundation is working to develop, model, and validate the Transactional Traffic Mediator further. We welcome people and organizations that can help test the coordination logic, improve the safety model, build prototypes, study human behavior, or identify a practical pilot environment.
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Benny Labs Foundation welcomes conversations with researchers, mobility platforms, automotive suppliers, fleets, infrastructure partners, prospective licensees, and anyone prepared to help turn the concept into a responsible pilot.
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