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Traffic monitoring systems and methods

  • US 10,373,488 B2
  • Filed: 05/16/2017
  • Issued: 08/06/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • identifying, by a traffic monitoring subsystem, a set of geographic location coordinates that define a traffic monitoring location;

    receiving, by the traffic monitoring subsystem, Global Positioning System (“

    GPS”

    ) location data from a plurality of mobile devices over a network, the GPS location data generated by GPS sensors within the plurality of mobile devices and representative of a plurality of geographic locations associated with mobile devices within the traffic monitoring location and mobile devices outside of the traffic monitoring location;

    selectively aggregating, by the traffic monitoring subsystem, the GPS location data, the selectively aggregating comprising;

    filtering out, from the received GPS location data, irrelevant GPS location data representative of the geographic locations associated with the mobile devices outside of the traffic monitoring location;

    identifying, within the GPS location data representative of the geographic locations associated with the mobile devices within the traffic monitoring location, anomalous data by determining that the anomalous data does not accurately represent traffic flow at the traffic monitoring location, andexcluding the anomalous data from the aggregated GPS location data;

    generating, by the traffic monitoring subsystem, traffic condition data based at least in part on the aggregated GPS location data, the traffic condition data representative of a traffic condition; and

    providing, by the traffic monitoring subsystem, the traffic condition data to at least one of the mobile devices in the plurality of mobile devices.

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