Adaptive analysis technique for planning road layout

• US 20050090973A1
• Filed: 10/28/2003
• Published: 04/28/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Levanoni, Menachem, Kurtzberg, Jerome
• Application Number:
  US10/695,142
• Publication Number:
  US 20050090973A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/208
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/047 Optimisation of routes or paths, e.g. travelling salesman problem

Abstract

A computer method for enhancing road layout. The method includes the steps of providing a travel database comprising a compendium of individual travel history; providing a road database comprising a compendium of at least one of road location solution, road information, and road diagnostics; and, employing an adaptive analysis technique for interrogating the travel and road databases for generating an output data stream, the output data stream correlating travel history with road layout.

Claims

1. A computer method comprising the steps of:

i) providing a travel database comprising a compendium of individual travel history;

ii) providing a road database comprising a compendium of at least one of road location solution, road information, and road diagnostics; and

iii) employing an adaptive analysis technique for interrogating said travel and road databases for generating an output data stream, said output data stream correlating travel history with road location solution.

2. A method according to claim 1, comprising a step of updating the travel database.

3. A method according to claim 2, comprising a step of updating the travel database so that it includes the results of employing an adaptive analysis technique.

4. A method according to claim 1, comprising a step of updating the road database.

5. A method according to claim 4, comprising a step of updating the road database so that it includes the effects of employing an adaptive analysis technique on the travel database.

6. A method according to claim 2, comprising a step of refining the employed adaptive analysis technique in cognizance of pattern changes embedded in each database as a consequence of updating the travel database.

7. A method according to claim 4, comprising a step of refining the employed adaptive analysis technique in cognizance of pattern changes embedded in each database as a consequence of updating the road database.

8. A method according to claim 1, comprising a step of employing a neural network as the adaptive analysis technique.

9. A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps for providing an interactive road management database, the method comprising the steps of:

i) providing a travel database comprising a compendium of individual travel history;

ii) providing a road database comprising a compendium of at least one of road layout solution, road information, and road diagnostics; and

iii) employing an adaptive analysis technique for interrogating said travel and road databases for generating an output data stream, said output data stream correlating travel history with road location solution.

10. A computer comprising:

i) means for inputting a travel database comprising a compendium of individual travel history;

ii) means for inputting a road database comprising a compendium of at least one of road management solution, road information, and road diagnostics;

iii) means for employing an adaptive analysis technique for interrogating said travel and road databases; and

iv) means for generating an output data stream, said output data stream correlating travel history with road location solution.