Method and system for modeling and processing vehicular traffic data and information and applying thereof
First Claim
1. A method for modeling and processing vehicular traffic data, comprising the steps of:
- generating a representation of a road network associated with the vehicular traffic data, the road network comprising a plurality of road sections; and
acquiring vehicular traffic data associated with said road network from at least a plurality of mobile sensors in communication with a wireless telecommunication network, wherein gaps in a current traffic situation for a road section due to a lack of current data are filled by using prediction by using vehicular traffic behavior patterns and correlation rules based on historic vehicular traffic data.
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Abstract
A method and system for modeling and processing vehicular traffic data and information, comprising: (a) transforming a spatial representation of a road network into a network of spatially interdependent and interrelated oriented road sections, for forming an oriented road section network; (b) acquiring a variety of the vehicular traffic data and information associated with the oriented road section network, from a variety of sources; (c) prioritizing, filtering, and controlling, the vehicular traffic data and information acquired from each of the variety of sources; (d) calculating a mean normalized travel time (NTT) value for each oriented road section of said oriented road section network using the prioritized, filtered, and controlled, vehicular traffic data and information associated with each source, for forming a partial current vehicular traffic situation picture associated with each source; (e) fusing the partial current traffic situation picture associated with each source, for generating a single complete current vehicular traffic situation picture associated with entire oriented road section network; (f) predicting a future complete vehicular traffic situation picture associated with the entire oriented road section network; and (g) using the current vehicular traffic situation picture and the future vehicular traffic situation picture for providing a variety of vehicular traffic related service applications to end users.
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1. A method for modeling and processing vehicular traffic data, comprising the steps of:
- generating a representation of a road network associated with the vehicular traffic data, the road network comprising a plurality of road sections; and
acquiring vehicular traffic data associated with said road network from at least a plurality of mobile sensors in communication with a wireless telecommunication network, wherein gaps in a current traffic situation for a road section due to a lack of current data are filled by using prediction by using vehicular traffic behavior patterns and correlation rules based on historic vehicular traffic data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 21, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62)
- generating a representation of a road network associated with the vehicular traffic data, the road network comprising a plurality of road sections; and
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14. A method for modeling and processing vehicular traffic data, comprising the steps of:
- generating a representation of a road network associated with the vehicular traffic data, the road network comprising a plurality of road sections; and
acquiring vehicular traffic data associated with said road network from at least a plurality of sensors and predicting a future traffic situation, wherein predicting a traffic situation comprises predicting normalized travel times over a plurality of road sections based on time dependent vehicle behavior patterns, such that the predicted traffic parameter for a particular road section takes into account the time of passage of that road section. - View Dependent Claims (22)
- generating a representation of a road network associated with the vehicular traffic data, the road network comprising a plurality of road sections; and
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15. A method for modeling and processing vehicular traffic data, comprising the steps of:
- generating a representation of a road network associated with the vehicular traffic data, the road network comprising a plurality of road sections; and
acquiring vehicular traffic data associated with said road network from at least a plurality of mobile sensors in communication with a wireless telecommunication network and predicting a future traffic situation, wherein predicting a future traffic situation comprises predicting travel times over a plurality of road sections based on time dependent vehicle behavior patterns, the method being further operable to compare detected traffic developments to regular time dependent behavior patterns of said road section network, and to identify discrepancies from said regular time dependent behavior patterns, whereby propagation in time along adjacent and non-adjacent road sections of traffic events identified by discrepancies from said time dependent behavior patterns can be determined using time dependent correlation rules of said road section network. - View Dependent Claims (23)
- generating a representation of a road network associated with the vehicular traffic data, the road network comprising a plurality of road sections; and
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16. A system for modeling and processing vehicular traffic data, comprising:
- a mechanism for representing a road network associated with the vehicular traffic data and information, the road network comprising a plurality of road sections; and
software for acquiring vehicular traffic data associated with said road network from a plurality of mobile sensors in communication with a wireless telecommunications network, the system further comprising a module for filling in gaps in a current vehicular traffic data by predictions by using time dependent correlation rules based on time dependent vehicular patterns derived from historic data, such that a predicted traffic parameter for a particular road section takes into account the time of passage of that road section. - View Dependent Claims (17, 24, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99)
- a mechanism for representing a road network associated with the vehicular traffic data and information, the road network comprising a plurality of road sections; and
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18. A system for modeling and processing vehicular traffic data, comprising:
- a mechanism for representing a road network associated with the vehicular traffic data, the road network comprising a plurality of road sections; and
software for acquiring vehicular traffic data associated with said road network from a plurality of mobile sensors in communication with a wireless telecommunications network, the system further comprising software for filling in gaps in current vehicular traffic data by predictions based on time dependent vehicular patterns derived from historic data using time dependent correlation rules, wherein the system is further operable to compare detected developments to regular said time dependent behavior patterns of said road section network and to identify discrepancies from said regular time dependent behavior patterns. - View Dependent Claims (25)
- a mechanism for representing a road network associated with the vehicular traffic data, the road network comprising a plurality of road sections; and
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19. A system for modeling and processing vehicular traffic data, comprising:
- a mechanism for representing a road network associated with the vehicular traffic data, the road network comprising a plurality of road sections; and
software for acquiring vehicular traffic data associated with said road network from a plurality of mobile sensors in communication with a wireless telecommunications network, the system further comprising a module to compare detected developments to regular said time dependent behavior patterns of said road section network and to identify discrepancies from said regular time dependent behavior patterns, whereby the system further determines propagation in time of traffic events identified by discrepancies from said time dependent behavior patterns of said road section network, using time dependent correlation rules and time dependent behavior patterns of said road section network. - View Dependent Claims (26)
- a mechanism for representing a road network associated with the vehicular traffic data, the road network comprising a plurality of road sections; and
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20. A system for modeling and processing vehicular traffic data, comprising:
- a mechanism for representing a road network associated with the vehicular traffic data, the road network comprising a plurality of road sections; and
software for acquiring vehicular traffic data associated with said road network from a plurality of mobile sensors in communication with a wireless telecommunications network, the system further comprising a module operable to compare detected developments to regular said time dependent behavior patterns of said road section network and to identify discrepancies from said regular time dependent behavior patterns, whereby the system further determines propagation in time along adjacent and non-adjacent said road sections, of traffic events identified by discrepancies from said time dependent behavior patterns of said road section network, using time dependent correlation rules of said road section network. - View Dependent Claims (27)
- a mechanism for representing a road network associated with the vehicular traffic data, the road network comprising a plurality of road sections; and
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28. A method for modelling and processing vehicular traffic data, comprising the steps of:
- generating a representation of a road network associated with the vehicular traffic data, the road network comprising a plurality of road sections; and
acquiring vehicular traffic data associated with said road network from at least a plurality of mobile sensors in communication with a wireless telecommunication network, wherein gaps in a current traffic situation for a road section due to a lack of current data are filled by using prediction by using vehicular traffic behaviour patterns of said road section network are time dependent based on historic vehicular traffic data. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30)
- generating a representation of a road network associated with the vehicular traffic data, the road network comprising a plurality of road sections; and
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31. A method for modeling and processing vehicular traffic data, comprising the steps of:
- generating a representation of a road network associated with the vehicular traffic data, the road network comprising a plurality of road sections; and
acquiring vehicular traffic data associated with said road network from at least a plurality of mobile sensors in communication with a wireless telecommunication network, wherein gaps in a current traffic situation for a road section due to a lack of current data are filled by using prediction by using correlation rules based on historic vehicular traffic data. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34)
- generating a representation of a road network associated with the vehicular traffic data, the road network comprising a plurality of road sections; and
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