Traffic information providing system and car navigation system
First Claim
1. A traffic information providing system for creating traffic information to be used in a car navigation system, comprising:
- traffic information acquiring means externally acquiring traffic information including information relating to a travel time of each of links making up a road on a map;
storage means for storing the traffic information acquired by the traffic information acquiring means;
statistical means statistically processing past traffic information stored by the storage means; and
complementing means calculating traffic information relating to a travel time for a non-provision link to which information about a travel time is not provided by the traffic information acquiring means, through estimate/complement operation on the basis of the statistical processing of the statistical means and traffic information about links in the vicinity of the non-provision link.
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Abstract
A traffic information providing system externally acquires traffic information including information relating to the travel time of a link, calculates a travel time for a non-provision link to which no travel time is provided through estimate/complement operation. The estimate/complement operation is carried out with use of travel times, emergencies, travel times of links in the vicinity of the non-provision link, and so on, obtained in the near past. The system stores and statistically processes the externally-acquired traffic information, and also estimates a travel time in the near future. When there is an abnormality in the acquired traffic information, the system deletes the abnormality, regards the information as a non-provision link, calculates a probability distribution of travel times of links, calculates a probability distribution of travel times of the entire route made up of a plurality of links, and also calculates a probability for a specific travel time range.
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15 Claims
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1. A traffic information providing system for creating traffic information to be used in a car navigation system, comprising:
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traffic information acquiring means externally acquiring traffic information including information relating to a travel time of each of links making up a road on a map;
storage means for storing the traffic information acquired by the traffic information acquiring means;
statistical means statistically processing past traffic information stored by the storage means; and
complementing means calculating traffic information relating to a travel time for a non-provision link to which information about a travel time is not provided by the traffic information acquiring means, through estimate/complement operation on the basis of the statistical processing of the statistical means and traffic information about links in the vicinity of the non-provision link. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11)
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9. A traffic information providing system for creating traffic information to be used in a car navigation system, comprising:
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traffic information acquiring means for externally acquiring traffic information including information about a travel time of each of links making up a road on a map;
storage means for storing the traffic information acquired by the traffic information acquiring means; and
travel time probability calculating means for calculating a probability distribution of travel times of the links with use of past traffic information stored by the storage means. - View Dependent Claims (10, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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