Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method of generating expected average speeds of travel
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Application No.: US13983609Application Date: 2012-02-02
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Publication No.: US09620007B2Publication Date: 2017-04-11
- Inventor: Peter Mieth , Stefan Lorkowski , Ralf-Peter Schäfer , Nikolaus Witte
- Applicant: Peter Mieth , Stefan Lorkowski , Ralf-Peter Schäfer , Nikolaus Witte
- Applicant Address: NL Amsterdam
- Assignee: TomTom Traffic B.V.
- Current Assignee: TomTom Traffic B.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Amsterdam
- Priority: GB1113112.5 20110729
- International Application: PCT/EP2012/051802 WO 20120202
- International Announcement: WO2012/104393 WO 20120809
- Main IPC: G08G1/00
- IPC: G08G1/00 ; G01C21/32 ; G01C21/34 ; G08G1/01 ; G08G1/0968

Abstract:
A method of generating expected average speeds of travel across one or more segments in the area covered by an electronic map, each segment representing a navigable segment in the area covered by the map and having associated therewith: an average speed of travel across that segment; segment data comprising at least one jam probability, the jam probability indicating the likelihood of a jam on that segment; and a jam speed indicative of the speed of travel on that segment when it is considered jammed. The method comprises using the segment data to predict whether a jam condition exists on at least one or each of the segments; and outputting the expected average speed of travel across these segments as: a) a first speed, where a jam condition is predicted to exist, the first speed being the jam speed for the relevant segment or a speed based thereon, or b) a second speed, where a jam condition is not predicted, the second speed being the average speed for the relevant segment or a speed based thereon.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130311076A1 METHOD OF GENERATING EXPECTED AVERAGE SPEEDS OF TRAVEL Public/Granted day:2013-11-21
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