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Controlling right-of-way for priority vehicles

  • US 10,049,570 B2
  • Filed: 10/21/2015
  • Issued: 08/14/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system comprising:

  • at least one computing device configured analyze a set of travel pathways for a priority vehicle by performing actions including;

    obtaining data indicating a location of the priority vehicle and a location of a destination for the priority vehicle;

    ranking each of a set of paths between the location of the priority vehicle and the location of the destination based upon a travel time for the priority vehicle along the set of paths,wherein a higher ranking correlates with a shorter travel time along the set of paths,wherein the ranking based upon the travel time includes determining a number of vehicles between the priority vehicle and the location of the destination and a predicted right-of-way time for each of the vehicles along the path, wherein the shorter travel time is assigned to the path having the lowest sum of the number of vehicles along the path and the predicted right-of-way time for each of the vehicles along the path; and

    sending instructions to vehicles on a highest-ranked path in the set of paths to initiate providing a right-of-way to the priority vehicle, wherein vehicles closer to the destination along the highest-ranked path are instructed to change a corresponding position prior to vehicles farther from the destination along the highest-ranked path.

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